Oíche Shamhna 2024

Oíche Shamhna 2024 Shona Daoibh! lá spraoi teaghlaigh! Creatlach ( Skeleton dressed figure ) from MoCI Playmobile Collection, Andrea Kehoe from 1974+ Bígí linn i gcomhair Samhain @ An ILAC! 31 Deireadh Fómhair 10:00 – 16:00. Beidh scéalta ar théama Oíche Shamhna, chomh maith le healaín, péinteáil, aisteoireacht, balúin agus go leor eile. Dírithe ar thuismitheoirí… Continue reading Oíche Shamhna 2024

The Ghost of Halloween Parties Past

This week we’re featuring some photos taken by Michael McCarthy of a Halloween Party some 50 years ago in Trinity College Dublin. Thank you to Michael for sharing! Want to be featured as part of our Halloween event? Send us your memories and pictures now at cbrowne@museumofchildhood.ie to be featured on our website and socials!

Halloween Memories – Connie Hurley

This week we’ve received some wonderful images from Connie Hurley, who remembers her childhood Halloweens fondly. “For the longest time as a very small girl I dressed everyday in my ‘fairy princess getting married’ outfit. I would go to the shops in it with my mum, take my big sister to school in it, go… Continue reading Halloween Memories – Connie Hurley

When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Dr Martina Devlin

Photo: Steve Humphreys

FINDERS, KEEPERS – Martina Devlin I learned about the concept of turning in lost property as a result of my walk home from school one day. It was a mystifying notion – instinctively, my acquisitive little brain preferred the ‘finders, keepers’ version. Our family lived close to Loreto Convent Primary School in Omagh, at that time based in a clattery old building on top of a hill, while our house was at the bottom. The school journey… Continue reading When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Dr Martina Devlin

When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Peter Keane

Reminiscences of my daily schooldays journey Back in the day (the late 1950’s, many moons ago), I lived on Oliver Plunkett Avenue, Monkstown Farm. I attended pre-primary school in Convent Road and CBS Primary and Secondary on Eblana Avenue, Dun Laoghaire. Every schoolday I walked to Dun Laoghaire with my sisters, and walked back home… Continue reading When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Peter Keane

Snapshots of our Childhood

16 year old Ann McMahon, C.1981. “Looking through old photos and found this! The trophy was presented to me by Roly Daniels on the night! Anyone who knows me knows I still love to dance.“ Ann Mc Hugh (nee Mc Mahon), 1960s Greystones, Co Wicklow As I look at this photograph, A million memories come… Continue reading Snapshots of our Childhood

When We Were Kings And Queens of the Road

When we Were Kings and Queens of the Road A “Travel to School” project, from Robert Burns and the Museum of Childhood Ireland Músaem Óige na hÉireann Please click ‘When We Were Kings And Queens of the Road’ below to find all the stories to date or scroll down and find all the stories beneath… Continue reading When We Were Kings And Queens of the Road

When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Dr Richard Hogan

I started walking to school with my brothers when I was five years old. Bag wobbling around my back, mother nervously waving us off. Down the muddy patch us adventurers traversed, the morning light breaking over the roofs of grey houses in Shamrock Lawn, friends joining as we slowly moved towards school. Talk of homework,… Continue reading When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Dr Richard Hogan

When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Laura Connolly

My very first trips to school, I was lucky enough to live only a fifteen-minute walk from our lady of good counsel Girls National School Woodley Rd, Johnstown, Glenageary. As a young child in primary school, I used to walk with my mum, sister and brother. We would spend our time talking and laughing the… Continue reading When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Laura Connolly

Childhood Meals Around the World: The Good and the Bad

By Allycia Susanti, Museum of Childhood Ireland Although different countries around the world enjoy different flavours, the concept of comfort meals transcends cultures, and so does the concept of unfavoured ones. Although children are known to prefer simple comforting foods, there are many different definitions of ‘simple’ and ‘comforting’ depending on each child or person’s… Continue reading Childhood Meals Around the World: The Good and the Bad