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Músaem Óige na hÉireann
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Why a Museum of Childhood?
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Technology and Exhibition Design
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History
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History Team
History Blog
Culture Night Óiche Chultúir 2022
Heritage Week 2022: Suggestions for Objects for the Museum of Childhood Ireland
History of Children and Childhood, 1500-1700
History of Children and Childhood, 1700-1800
Childhood and Youth in Ireland, 1800-the Present
A Youthful Revolution?
The early years of uniformed youth groups in Ireland, 1888-1930
Researching the History of Children and Childhood in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Ireland
A Brief Reflection on Researching Children and Postwar Humanitarianism
Photography and Irish Children: A Window into Childhood Fashion
Children’s Clothing in Modern Ireland
Baby’s First Clothes – Clothing New-born Infants in Rural Ireland in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Growing Up in Late 20th C Ireland
Education
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Education Team
Education Blog
Reflections On . . . The Educational Value of Folklore and Local History
Reflections On . . . The Need for Traveller Characters in Children’s Stories
Education Blog Archive: Reflections On . . .
Education Seminars Let’s Talk About . . .
Online Exhibition: We Are . . . Cantonese Irish
Bloomsday Centenary Writing Competition
Online Exhibition: Bloomsday Centenary Writing Competition
James Joyce 21 Writing Competition
Online Exhibition: James Joyce 21
I Love my boots because…
Online Exhibition: I Love My Boots Because . . .
Literature
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Literature Team
Literature Blog
Marginalia & The Pollard Collection of Children’s Books
International Children’s Authors: Literature Lessons from Around the World
12 Irish Children’s Literature Authors
Rights
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Rights Team
Rights Blog
Early Childhood Voices
Voices of Children International Gallery Exhibition
Creative Expression & Children’s Voices in Early Years
“Can We See Our Voices?”
All About Me – Full body portraits
Child & Youth Voices
Dundalk Town Centre’s historic Long Walk Trees
Heritage Week Tipperary 2022
Tipperary Photography Competition
#Sustainability
Art to Reimagine Tipperary Town
Photos, Heritage Week in Tipperary Town
Our Town: Our Future
From Apple Seeds to Apple Trees
The children of Achill & Robert Henri 1913-1928
Irish Stories & Legends in Ukranian
Ukrainian Stories and Legends in English
Ukrainian language Children’s books
Memories of a Cork Jewish Childhood
MOCI’S Online Creative Workshops
Glantór / Eraser
Pen…
Pencil / Peann luaide
Stylus / Stíleas
Tree Week 2021- 2023
International Adolescent Health Week 21-27th March
DouglassWeek
Children’s Voices Project 2020/21 Together, Le Chéile
Slide show
Project 2021 Exhibition
Project 2020 Exhibition
Press Release
Poetry with Chiamaka Enyi -Amadi
Poetry Day 2021
Shakespeare Lives
Making Dublin Greener, with Dublin Gazette
The GEL Project
Engagement
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Engagement Team
Engagement Blog
Season’s Greetings!
Halloween at the Museum of Childhood Ireland
Back to School at the Museum of Childhood Ireland
Community Memories: Bernie Carroll
Community Memories: Marie Farrell
Community Memories: Growing up in Donnycarney
Snapshots
Generational interaction at MoCI
Memory Boxes Cuimhne Boscai 2020
Exhibitions
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The Shirley Lewis Scrapbook 1917
Linda (Betty) Egan
Dr Damien O’Muirí’s Enid Blyton books
Nancy Drew at 90
Izzy Jones-McAuley Collection
The Charlotte Raftery Collection.
Sewing Patterns
The Bubbauns
Crolly Dolls
Ellen Worrall’s holiday souvenir dolls
Fashion Dolls
Action Force Collection
Star Wars Collection
The Clifford Cradle
The Reddin Family’s Suncar.
Guilfoyle Family : Moses Basket
Rachel Finnegan’s Doll Kitchen 1900s
Rachel Dawnay’s Doll House 1930s
Judy McDonnell Durnin’s Doll House 1950s
Lorraine O’Connor’s Doll House 1960s
Rachel Abraham’s Doll House 1970s
Events
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Children in War, 2020-21
Children in War 2018-2019
Children in War, 2017
Heritage Week 2019
Heritage Week 2018
Heritage Week 2017
Bloomsday 2019
Bloomsday 2018
Bloomsday 2017
MoCI at Dublin Wizard Con 2022
Seumas O’Kelly
Jane Stanford
Cliona Buckley
Veronica Haywood
Martin Swords
Angela Patton
John Goggins
Fion Gunn
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