Corporate SupportThere are many different ways to get your company and staff involved with Museum of Childhood Ireland’s (MoCI) work and mission. Here are some possibilities: Adopt the MoCI as your ‘Charity of the Year’. Donate as a company and /or staff can fundraise to support our work.Santa loves giving gifts at Christmas to the… Continue reading Corporate Support
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Gift in Your Will and Philantrophy
Gift in Your Will: Why Leave a Gift in My Will to the Museum of Childhood Ireland? We are funded by voluntary contributions. We have a wonderful voluntary board and team who work tirelessly for, and truly believe in this project for Ireland. BUT, we need your HELP. A home for the museum is needed.… Continue reading Gift in Your Will and Philantrophy
Collaborations
Collaborative Projects 2024 Child/youth ‘ Creative Beginnings’ – working title – the children will choose their own title. Collaborative project from the Museum of Childhood Ireland (Islandwide), Sticky Fingers Arts (Newry), Monaghan County Library, Action for Children’s Art UK. A Child/youth project. When We Were Kings And Queens Ongoing project from 2023 with Robert Burns, Majella McAllister, and Chloe Browne. Adult… Continue reading Collaborations
Collaborations
Collaborative Projects 2024 Child/youth ‘ Creative Beginnings’ – working title – the children will choose their own title. Collaborative project from the Museum of Childhood Ireland (Islandwide), Sticky Fingers Arts (Newry), Monaghan County Library, Action for Children’s Art UK. A Child/youth project. When We Were Kings And Queens Ongoing project from 2023 with Robert Burns,… Continue reading Collaborations
Alison Groves- Brownie uniform and badges 1970s
Brownie uniform and guiding badges. St Lukes pack, Limerick. Owned by Alison Groves. An Fhothrach Mhór, Lios Póil ,Trá Lí. Co Chiarraí
Rita Whelan’s photo albums
Ann Hogan- Captain Hogan Joseph Hogan married Margaret Daly on the 20th of April 1920. Their firstborn child Anne was born at 16 Heytesbury Place on 18th March 1921. She attended Loreto on the Green until second year in Secondary School. Anne wasn’t a paying student so she and some other girls were taught by… Continue reading Rita Whelan’s photo albums
Cruinniú na nÓg
A day of free creativity for children and young people ABOUT: Ireland is the first, and only, country in the world to have a national day of free creativity for children and young people under 18. Cruinniú na nÓg is a flagship initiative of the Creative Ireland Programme’s Creative Youth Plan to enable the creative potential of children and young… Continue reading Cruinniú na nÓg
When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Catherine Agada Joseph
As a young girl in secondary school, I used to walk for 30 minutes every morning at 7am to school, and another 30 minute walk back home at 4pm. It never felt like a 30 minute walk because many other children in my neighbourhood also attended the same school. We would all wait for each… Continue reading When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Catherine Agada Joseph
When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Tom Doorley
My earliest memory of my journey to school involved catching the bus – usually an 11 or a 16 – on Drumcondra Road to get to the Dominican Convent in Eccles Street, now long demolished and replaced with much of the Mater Hospital. In those days there was a stable yard close to the back… Continue reading When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Tom Doorley
When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Karl Doyle
I got a lift to and from school everyday with my mam.On the way to school we would chat and listen to 98fm (I loved Dermot & Dave). On the way home my friend Tadhg would come with us because his house was on the way. Tadhg and I used to ramble on about whatever… Continue reading When We Were Kings and Queens of the Road: Karl Doyle