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Uncovering a community’s lost heritage in Kilskeagh, Co. Galway
National Heritage Week, one of the busiest times of the year for any Irish heritage practitioner, has come and gone for 2025, and we spent the week delivering events and activities across the country. During that time, we experienced one of the most meaningful Heritage Week events of our career in Kilskeagh, Co. Galway. We’ve…
Crinniú na nÓg 2025
Yesterday we participated once again in the wonderful Crinniú na nÓg – Irelands’s national day of creativity for children – with some busy and fun children’s bookmaking workshops in Foxford and Kiltimagh Libraries. Huge thanks are due from us to the workshop funders Creative Ireland and Mayo County Council, to Kiltimagh and Foxford Libraries, and…
Memory Box Workshops for Bealtaine Festival
We recently had the pleasure of delivering some Memory Box workshops for the Mullingar and Athlone branches of Westmeath Libraries as part of the wonderful Bealtaine Festival. Our work over the last few years has often focused on learning and engagement through objects, and Memory Boxes use the practice of object-based recall and handling and…
Heritage Week 2020
Heritage Week 2024
Heritage Week 2024 wrapped up on Sunday, and was as always a great celebration of local and national heritage across the country! Scéal Heritage Consultancy had a busy week of public outreach, with the return of our Pop-up Leitrim Women’s Museum with the North Leitrim Women’s Centre, and children and family heritage craft workshops with…
Agency and Advocacy: Locating Women’s Grassroots Activism in England and Ireland, 1918 to the present
In April and May this year, we had the privilege of being a collaborator on a new international research network led by Caitríona Beaumont, Professor of Social History from London South Bank University (LSBU). The new network studies local grassroots women’s activism across Ireland and England since 1918. The “Agency and Advocacy: Locating Women’s Grassroots…
Hands on History returns for Crinniú na nÓg 2024!
We’re delighted to be back in Mayo Libraries for the return of this year’s Crinniú na nÓg children’s festival on June 15th! We’ll be inviting children to learn about the Mayo pirate queen Gráinne Mhaol, and to design and decorate their own sword and shield! Places for the three workshops are limited, so book now…
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