In Conversation with Deirdre McGillicuddy, Assistant Professor and Researcher, University College Dublin Deirdre’s research areas include primary education, pedagogy, wellbeing, creativity and children’s voice and rights in education. She is the author of the newly released book Educaring From The Heart: How to Nurture Your Wellbeing and Rediscover Your Purpose in Education. From the Uplands… Continue reading Exploring Heidi in an Irish Context
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World Book Day 2025!
Happy World Book Day 2025! The theme of this year is Read Your Way. Here at the Children’s Rights Team of the Museum of Childhood Ireland, we think this ties into a really important right that all children on this island have. Article 30 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child… Continue reading World Book Day 2025!
Puppet Show, Seó Puipéad and Dominican School
Christmas 2024 The Museum of Childhood Ireland were at Bloomfields Shopping Centre on December 13th for a festive day with McCormick’s Puppets, featuring seasonal performances between 1:00 and 4 pm! Santa had arrived, but where was Rudolph the Reindeer? And what was Crocodile up to? Plus, we all met Cheeky Monkey and snapped a photo… Continue reading Puppet Show, Seó Puipéad and Dominican School
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
The International Day of Persons with Disabilities on December 3rd 2024 focuses on the theme: ‘Amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and sustainable future.’ The leadership of persons with disabilities is epitomised by the global disability rights movement’s slogan “Nothing About Us Without Us”. It connotes the basic requirements of participation,… Continue reading International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Challenge – Archival. Difficulty – Hard.
Transformers Fall of Cybertron The recent delisting of Spec Ops: the Line (Yager 2012) has brought renewed attention to the need for archival in video games. What I would like to add to the conversation is to shed light on some examples of the current issues regarding game preservation and access as these challenges are… Continue reading Challenge – Archival. Difficulty – Hard.
World Children’s Day 2023
For every child, every right World Children’s Day was established in 1954 as Universal Children’s Day and is celebrated anually on the 20th of November, to promote international togetherness, raise awareness among children worldwide, and help improve children’s welfare. November 20th is an important date as it is the date in 1959 when the UN… Continue reading World Children’s Day 2023