Child & Youth Voices Posts

Launch Event 25th November @ 2pm Venue: County Museum, Dundalk Town Centre  2.00pm Complimentary Lunch in Museum 2.30pm Announcement of the Dundalk Historic Trees #Hashtag Competition Winners Majella McAllister, Director, Museum of Childhood Ireland Músaem Óige na hÉireann 2.45pm Welcome to Dundalk and Louth County Museum – An Cathaoirleach, Kevin Meenan & Brian Walsh, Louth… Continue reading Dundalk Town Centre’s historic Long Walk Trees

The Ask Imaginative Reuse! Attention all budding young Artists, Designers and Architects! Do you have an idea of how you’d like to reuse any building ( whether in use or not at the moment) in Tipperary Town? You can be as imaginative as you like! (Personally, I’d love a shop that sells good luck, and… Continue reading Art to Reimagine Tipperary Town

The Ask! This year the Heritage Council chose sustainability as the theme for Heritage Week. We asked children for their thoughts on the word Sustainability in prose, or verse. Attention budding Poets and Writers! When you hear the word SUSTAINABILITY what comes to mind? Would you like to explore your ideas, express your understanding, let… Continue reading #Sustainability

The Ask! Attention all budding photographers under the age of 18! We are looking for you to take a photo of your favourite building in Tipperary town for #Heritageweek2022 and let us know why you love the building you’ve chosen! #Sustainability #CTCHC Tipperary town from a child and youth perspective The Photographic entries were judged… Continue reading Tipperary Photography Competition

As part of Ireland’s National Heritage Week, the Museum of Childhood Ireland have teamed up with Tipperary Town Revitalisation: https://www.facebook.com/TippTownRevitalisation/ Councillor Anne Marie Ryan Shiner: https://www.tipperarycoco.ie/your-council/cllr-anne-marie-ryan-shiner and Excel Heritage: https://www.tipperaryexcel.com/ to deliver an exciting range of sustainable heritage projects for children and young people in Tipperary Town.   This wonderful NHW 2022 project grew out of the… Continue reading Heritage Week Tipperary 2022

with Dublin Gazette The Youth Voice Team at the Museum of Childhood Ireland ( aged 12-18 years of age ) were so happy to support Dublin Gazette Newspaper’s sustainability competition for primary schools in Dublin, as it chimes with the contemporary aims and focus of our team at the Museum of Childhood Ireland, and following… Continue reading Making Dublin Greener

Unburn bush Storyteller: Matthew, age 10 Listen here: It was a long time ago. Two kings – Polish and Hungarian – united their armies and approached the wall of the famous Ukranian city of Dorohobuzh. A letter was handed over to the defenders of the city. They offered to open the city gates without a… Continue reading Ukrainian Stories and Legends in English

Storytelling by Viktoria Kozak Ірландські історії та легенди від оповідачки Вікторії Козак Scéalta agus Finscéalta na hÉireann i dteanga na hÚcráine. Scéalaíocht le Viktoria Kozak  The Story of the Giant’s Causeway Дорога велетнів, Ко Антрім Doroha veletniv, Ko Antrim Scéal faoi Clochán an Aifir, Co Aontroma Illustration, Norah, age 12 Have a listen to our… Continue reading Irish Stories & Legends in Ukrainian

Douglass Week: A call to modern young people We are proudly celebrating Douglass Week, marking the arrival and tour of the reformer and slavery abolitionist Frederick Douglass in Ireland between 1845 and 1846. His tour of the country saw him lecture to packed audiences, meet Daniel O’Connell and reflect upon the devastating effects of the famine then beginning… Continue reading DouglassWeek

Programme for Government & Collaborative Town Centre Health Check (CTCHC) Programme (Heritage Council) – From October 2021 “Our Town: Our Future” – Capturing the Voice of Children and Young People as they explore their role in revitalising Ireland’s Historic Town Centres. The first of our youth panel discussions is now available here: The CTCHC Youth… Continue reading Our Town: Our Future

Levina Reeves Majella McAllister Liz Finnegan Artist, session 1, Ann Wingfield Poet, session 2, Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi Musician/ Singer / Songwriter, session 3, Precious Benjamin

Short presentation on Project 2020 / 2021 Together, Le Chéile. [office_doc id=7443]

New Literary and Art Journal for Children and Youth aged up to 18 years from the Museum of Childhood Ireland. It comprises three strands: Pen/Peann, ( Writing) Pencil/Peann Luaide ( Art) and Stylus/Stíleas (Songwriting) Following on from the wonderful experiences of our previous and ongoing creative writing and art initiatives, and our popular teen writing… Continue reading Glantór/Eraser

New Song Writing platform for children and youth from Youth Voices at the Museum of Childhood Ireland. Following on from our previous initiatives, this is a new platform, celebrating and promoting the diversity of song writing from young people at home and abroad. It will be moderated by guest song writers/ musicians. email Note: info@museumofchildhood.ie… Continue reading Stylus / Stíleas

New Art Gallery for children and youth from Youth Voices at the Museum of Childhood Ireland. Following on from the experiences of our previous creative art initiatives, this is a new platform celebrating and promoting all forms of art work from young people at home and abroad. This will be online, and in paper format,… Continue reading Pencil/ Peann luaide

https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-history-and-purpose-behind-the-4-color-multi-pens-Do-the-colors-have-specific-uses New Literary Journal for children and youth from Youth Voices at the Museum of Childhood Ireland. Following on from the experiences of our previous and ongoing creative writing initiatives, and our popular teen writing club, this is a new platform celebrating and promoting diverse writing from young people at home and abroad. This will… Continue reading Pen / Peann

We are almost there again, almost happy, almost clappy, but not quite yet. By Christmas they say we will all hug again and share again, but I wouldn’t bet, Will it ever go back to how it was? Will my life always be a different ‘normal’ because, I’m fourteen and I’m asking. I’m Fourteen. By… Continue reading Project 2021 Exhibition

Where are you really from? By Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi The old title is “writing home”, the new title is “where are you really from?”. This poem was originally performed at the the 2019 panel event “Are We Doing Diversity Justice?” organised by Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi and Dr Emma Penny. We need to be pro active and highlight… Continue reading Poetry Day

For further advice please go to www.teni.ie   Enquiries can be sent to office@teni.ie and Steven will direct emails to the correct person.  #IAHW #YouthVoices #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #TY #SecondarySchools

Planting in Blackrock, Co Dublin, Ireland, for the Museum of Childhood Ireland Tree Week We have ongoing children’s tree projects at the museum all year around. For Christmas 2022 we provided native grown living Christmas trees to children’s groups we’d worked with during the year, which they decorated with ornaments that they handmade, using foraged… Continue reading Tree Week 2021- 2023

“Project 2020 / TOGETHER, LE CHÉILE” Children’s Voices at home and abroad during the pandemic from the Museum of Childhood Ireland Project team. ​https://museumofchildhood.ie/project2020/ Tarraingíonn scéal scéal eile. One story begets another. In this strange and unsettling time of Pandemic, the well-being and mental health of all our children is of paramount importance. Project 2020… Continue reading Press Release

Shakespeare Lives through Kenneth Branagh on Stage and Screen Exhibition and workshop: At the Museum of Childhood Ireland office 94 Lower Georges St., Dun Laoghaire. Few have done more to celebrate and popularise the work of Shakespeare than actor and director, Kenneth Branagh, born in Belfast in December 1960. From his early days at RADA… Continue reading Shakespeare Lives

Virtual Poetry Workshops (1 ) & (2)for Children age 5-12 years and 13-18 years. The MCI Project are delighted to announce that Poet and Performer Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi will be hosting a Virtual Poetry Workshop (1) for 5-12 year olds next Wednesday May 20th, from 2-3pm.  On Wednesday May 27th she will host a Virtual Poetry… Continue reading Poetry with Chiamaka Enyi -Amadi

Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales. Dear grandparents, parents, children, Aunties, Uncles, neighbours, everyone! Our MCI Poroject colleague Ruthanne Baxter (Edinburgh University Museum) has developed this wonderful intergenerational initiative for you. We hope you’ll find it an interesting resource to help you stay connected both during the pandemic and afterwards. It’s a really great, simple, fun, community… Continue reading GEL Project