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We’re hiring – Museum Documentation Assistant Vacancy!
Job Advertisement: Museum Documentation Assistant Employer: Scéal Heritage ConsultancyProject: Cataloguing and Packing of Heritage Artefact CollectionsContract Duration: Mid-February 2026 – End May 2026Location: Dublin 8 (primary), with occasional attendance at other Dublin sitesType: Fixed-term contract About the Role Scéal Heritage Consultancy is seeking a detail-oriented Documentation Assistant to assist in the delivery of a national…
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…
Heritage Week 2020
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 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…
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