Events Posts

Dublin Comic Con, 11th and 12th March 2023. What an incredible, Creative, Inclusive, and Playful family day out! The atmosphere was electric ⚡️ We met tons of old and new friends. Wonderful superhero creation in the all day workshop too! 🦸‍♀️🦸‍♂️🦸 We were delighted that Basak Ellibes from the Istanbul Toy Museum, Karol O’Connor, Action… Continue reading MoCI at Dublin Comic Con 2023

By Sokeen The sound of cars slowly creeps into my dreams, light shines through the cracks in my painted wooden blinds. I slowly raised my head off the pillow that I had rested my head on overnight and that now had a sizeable dent where my head was and. I flung my blanket aside and… Continue reading Bloomsday 2022

Batgirl at Comic Con Dublin 2022!  Our museum team member Sorcha with items from the MoCI’s collection. Thank you  Dublin Comic Con for an amazing weekend. 💥A fantastic atmosphere and everyone was so friendly and helpful ❤️ #dublincomiccon #dublincomiccon2022

The Basque Children of ’37 12 month Islandwide touring exhibition This year the MCI Project in partnership with BCA 37 UK, presents the 3rd in our series on Children in War: The Basque Children of ‘37. This year the MCI Project in partnership with BCA 37 UK, present the 2nd of our Children in War… Continue reading Children in War, 2020-21

12 month islandwide touring exhibition. Champion of the Child: Janusz Korczac. Date: Thursday 26th April  Time:7.30pm Venue: The Studio, Lexicon Library Dún Laoghaire. This is the 2nd in our series on Children and War, from the Museum of Childhood Ireland Project, and our first 12 month travelling exhibition. The exhibition will travel from Dún Laoghaire,… Continue reading Children in War 2018-2019

Tomi Reichental, I was a Boy in Belsen Please join us for an evening with Tomi Reichental. Where: At our office, 94 Lower Georges St. Dún Laoghaire. Time: 7pm until late Date: Wednesday Nov 8th 2017 We are honoured that Tomi is to give the inaugural talk for the Museum of Childhood Ireland Project on… Continue reading Children in War, 2017

Royal Marine Hotel, Dún Laoghaire. The Museum of Childhood Ireland Bloomsday Talk 2019.  ‘Joyce, Childhood and Dublin: ‘a new and complex sensation’ (P 66)’ with  Professor Anne Marie D’Arcy.  Introduction: Majella McAllister. Date: June 15th.  Time:7-8.30pm.  Location: Dún Laoghaire suite at the Royal Marine Hotel. We are delighted to welcome Dr Anne Marie D’Arcy to… Continue reading Bloomsday 2019

Bloomsday 2018 See our display on James Joyce books for children at our office in Dún Laoghaire. Call by from 11am for readings for younger children. Drop by from 2pm to also hear readings from Ulysses by our volunteer team and project friends. We are dressing up for a stroll around the borough as far… Continue reading Bloomsday 2018

Event Day Heritage Week. August 25th. location: Multiple venues. Theme: Sharing Stories Our Childhood. Our Heritage.  Project Manager: Majella McAllister, the Museum of Childhood Ireland.

And the winner of our raffle is…. Ticket : AC 192290 Number, 361. Alison Quigley, Tallagh, Co. Dublin. Prizes sponsored by museumofchildhood.ie and a special thank you to Funky Geeks, Wexford, for the star prize, a 1st Edition Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix! @Funkygeekswexford Thank you too to all the new friends… Continue reading MoCI at Dublin Wizard Con 2022

The Basque Children of ’37 12 month Islandwide touring exhibition This year the MCI Project in partnership with BCA 37 UK, presents the 3rd in our series on Children in War: The Basque Children of ‘37. This year the MCI Project in partnership with BCA 37 UK, present the 2nd of our Children in War… Continue reading Children in War, 2020-21

Dr Korczac, Champion of the Child. Launch and 12 month islandwide touring exhibition. Champion of the Child: Janusz Korczac. Date:Thursday 26th April  Time:7.30pm Venue:The Studio, Lexicon Library Dún Laoghaire. This is the 2nd in our series on Children and War, from the Museum of Childhood Ireland, and our first 12 month travelling exhibition. The exhibition… Continue reading Children in War 2018-2019

Tomi Reichental, I was a Boy in Belsen. Please join us for an evening with Tomi Reichental. Where: At our office, 94 Lower Georges St. Dún Laoghaire. Time: 7pm until late Date: Wednesday Nov 8th 2017 We are honoured that Tomi is to give the inaugural talk for the Museum of Childhood Ireland Project on… Continue reading Children in War 2017

An evening with John Goggins.

Commemorating the writer Seumas O’Kelly. Where: 94 Lower Georges St., Dún Laoghaire. Time 5pm Saturday 17th Nov. We welcome Mairdhia Ni Murchu with the terrific group of actors, Val O’Donnell and The JoyceStagers, who will perform rehearsed readings from the short stories of Seumas O’Kelly this evening for our event, (one of a series of… Continue reading Seumas O’Kelly

Moriarty Unmasked: Conan Doyle and an Anglo-Irish Quarrel Moriarty Unmasked: Conan Doyle and an Anglo-Irish Quarrel, Jane Stanford. (Available to buy on Amazon, paperback, and ebook) Arthur Conan Doyle, best known for the Sherlock Holmes stories, was of Irish descent, describing himself as an Anglo-Celt. Born in Scotland, he made his home in England but… Continue reading Jane Stanford

Croithlí or Croichshlí (anglicised as Crolly) is a village in the Gaeltacht parishes of Gweedore (Gaoth Dobhair) and The Rosses (Na Rossan) in the west of County Donegal, Ireland.  The official name of the village is Croithlí. This is taken to come from the old Irish Craithlidh meaning shaking bog or Quagmire. Croichshlí, the less… Continue reading Culture Night / Oíche Chultúir 2019

On september 18th, Culture Night, Join us between 4 and 11pm to view the wonderful boyhood Enid Blyton Books collection. of the late Dr Damien O’Muirí . Our team of readers will be on hand too for regular readings throughout the evening. Where? 94 Lower Georges St. This event is completely accessible as the downstairs… Continue reading Culture Night /Oíche Chultúir 2018

Online – Heritage Week. Cliona Buckley is a Sociological Researcher of Ireland’s Industrial Schools. Carriglea Park, Industrial School. https://industrialmemories.ucd.ie/project/vr-tour-of-carriglea https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TEKc4LY4Al1xDFL5vHA25NeOj2DQhprA/view?usp=drivesdk Goldenbridge Industrial School. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i_wJFzZTqN39GsW2jOtZBZ4xGiBSn6hi/view?usp=sharing https://industrialmemories.ucd.ie/project/echoes-from-the-past Christine Buckley  Award winning documentary ‘Dear Daughter’ by Christine Buckley and companions at Goldenbridge Industrial school. Produced and directed by L. Lentin. https://ifiplayer.ie/dear-daughter

Online Exhibition Childhood: What Books Taught Me This project will explore the role children’s literature plays in educating children of all ages. Project organisers will ask the public to nominate a favourite book from their childhood and provide a short description of what their chosen book has taught them. The project will be hosted online… Continue reading Heritage Week 2020

Join us around the fireside at 94, Lower Georges St.,on Friday September 22nd from 6pm for an evening of readings and discussion on Patrick Weston Joyce’s ‘A Childs History of Ireland’.( Book from the Museum of Childhood Ireland collection) From the Museum of Childhood Ireland Collection: A rare First Edition of this important book by… Continue reading Culture Night / Óiche Chultúir 2017

‘Mumbles’ in Hong kong. The story of the artist’s return to her Hong Kong childhood.. An evening Slideshow and Conversation with artist, environmental campaigner, educator, and author Veronica Haywood, focusing on her early childhood, family history and connections to Hong Kong. Venue: Upstairs at 94 Lower Georges St., Dún Laoghaire. Time: 7.30-9pm. Date: Friday 23rd… Continue reading Veronica Haywood

Join us for an intimate evening around the fireside in our bookshop upstairs at 94 Lower Georges St., for an evening of readings and discussion with poet/author and great friend of the museum, Martin Swords. Time 8pm. Thursday 22nd February 2018. Refreshments will be served from 7.30pm. Greetings Friends, Poets and other enthusiasts, here I… Continue reading Martin Swords

High Tea At A Low Table. Talk by author / poet Angela Patton at the Royal Marine Hotel, Dún Laoghaire. June 29th 2019. 7-8.30pm. “High Tea at a Low Table.” (If you click here, you’ll see a short description, brief review, and an excerpt from her wonderful memoir) Angela will read from her memoir, interspersing… Continue reading Angela Patton

Joyce and music. Intergenerational, family friendly Bloomsday. Children are especially welcome! You are cordially invited to join us for tea, cake and a chat from 11am on the morning of Friday 16th June. We have a gorgeous main display, and several mini displays, centred on the music featured in/ which inspired Joyces work. Pick up… Continue reading Bloomsday 2017

Event Day Heritage Week. August 18th. Location: The Royal Marine Hotel. Childrens’s Pastimes in Past Times. Also taking place are: Displays on the theme at Bloomfields Shopping Centre, Piggybank, Bank of Ireland. Games and stories 1-12 yr olds at Piggybank, from 10 am-12 noon and a Puppet Show with the wonderful Julie-Rose McCormick in the… Continue reading Heritage Week 2019

Event Day Theme: Nature is part of our Cultural Heritage Heritage Week. August 19th.Location: Multiple venues. Project Management, Majella McAllister, and the Museum of Childhood Ireland team.

Royal Marine Hotel, Dún Laoghaire. The Museum of Childhood Ireland Project Bloomsday Talk 2019.  ‘Joyce, Childhood and Dublin: ‘a new and complex sensation’ (P 66)’ with  Professor Anne Marie D’Arcy.  Introduced by Majella McAllister. Date: June 15th.  Time:7-8.30pm.  Location: Dún Laoghaire suite at the Royal Marine Hotel. We are delighted to welcome Dr Anne Marie… Continue reading Bloomsday 2019

Boscaí / Boxes 1 & 2 Culture Night 2020 (from 4pm today) and beyond! (until November 30th) We’re delighted to be partnering with the fantastic Robert Emmet CDP in Dublin to bring you the Museum of Childhood Ireland’s Boscaí / Boxes 1 & 2 (Memory Boxes) as a physical exhibition. Where: The Robert Emmet Community… Continue reading Culture Night / Oíche Chultúir 2020

from March 17th 2020 until….ongoing! Take part now, It’s very simple. Just have an adult email a photograph of your creative response to the Covid-19 pandemic (Draw/paint/installation/poem/haiku/writing) in to us at info@museumofchildhood.ie The idea is for you to be heard; for you to express yourself, in a creative medium of your choosing. It is important… Continue reading Children’s Voices Project 2020 & 2021 Together, Le Chéile

Event Day Heritage Week. August 25th. location: Multiple venues. Our Childhood. Our Heritage.  Project Manager: Majella McAllister, the Museum of Childhood Ireland.