Museum of Childhood Ireland, Músaem Óige na hÉireann
museumofchildhood.ie Est 2018. Groundbreaking first for Ireland. Award winning Historic to contemporary, Islandwide and Diaspora, museum of children and childhood. Championing every child. Charity: 20205452 #SeenAndHeard #CherishingAllTheChildren
- All participating in the #DúnLaoghaireRathdown #StPatricksDay parade today enjoyed a fab day. Thank you to all from across our museum teams & MC #maiadunphy. Special thanks to #LeoOKelly from Tír na nÓg who led our group & sang a verse of his signature song. museumofchildhood.ie/st-patricks-...
- “On the day of the parade, we were given huge flags to carry. The usual crowds turned out to see the parade and everyone waved and cheered. It was exhilarating being part of it all …”#StPatricksDay #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #MúsaemÓigeNahÉireann #Ireland ☘️ museumofchildhood.ie/st-patricks-...
- Seachtain na Gaeilge 2025, Músaem Óige na hÉireann #Seanfhocail #seachtainnagaeilge #gaeilge #múinteoir #leabharGaeilge #pháistí #teanga #Oideachas #scolaíocht #dalta #Education #Ireland 👇https://museumofchildhood.ie/seachtain-na-gaeilge-snag/
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- World Book Day ‘Read Your Way’ ties into an important right of children.Article 30,UNCRC guarantees each child’s right to use their language.Literature is an important part of language inc Irish language/languages spoken by children here #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #MúsaemÓigeNahÉireann #Worldbookday
- We are seeking new members to join our Children’s Advisory Team (ages 10-17). The views of children and young people have top priority in the development of the Museum. Be part of a team, share your ideas and help shape our future. Interested? Find out more: museumofchildhood.ie/we-are-the-c...
- Community Engagement Team researcher, Danielle Ford, reflects on Teddy Boys & Girls youth culture in the 20th century in this post: museumofchildhood.ie/teddy-boys-a... Photo below is from Ken Russell's series 'The Last of the Teddy Girls.' #youthculture #youth @irishmuseums.bsky.social #childhood
- Intergenerational art/craft workshops in 1. Pinwheel (our symbol!). 2. Puppet making with #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland ‘s Sinead Lynch, over the past 2 Saturdays: museumofchildhood.ie/tir-na-nog-t... #FaberCastell #Museum #Art #Craft #creativity #Museum #pinwheel #puppet #Ireland #TírNanÓg #TírNahÓige
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- Honoured that @irishmuseums.bsky.social has selected #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland as the first recipient of their Membership Award supporting museum orgs in the volunteer/ community-led sector museumofchildhood.ie/ima-membersh... #IMA #MúsaemÓigeNahÉireann #Children #Childhood #Historic #Contemporary
- Our team were delighted to meet & chat with local author @marianbrennanbooks.bsky.social & family on Saturday ❤️ about all things #books #children & how great it can be for them to discover both familiar & unfamiliar locations in the stories they read 📖 #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland www.marianbrennan.com
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- Life on Achill Island in the 1950s through the eyes of a schoolboy 👉 www.con-telegraph.ie/2025/02/15/l... & explore some of the #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland ‘s #Achill projects 👇https://museumofchildhood.ie/heritage-week/ #AchillIsland #Mayo #Children #Childhood #Ireland #History #Culture #Heritage
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- Loss of a parent, a major event in a child’s development,leaves lasting marks on their psychological/emotional well-being. Most research highlights short-term effects of parental loss but this study aimed to uncover long-term effects/potential traces of personal growth www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Congratulations Dr Sorcha de Brún, team member here at Músaem Óige na hÉireann. Never one to shy away from a difficult task, guess what Sorcha has just gone & done! #Shakespeare #Sonnets #Irish #Gaeilge #Iambicpentameter #translation #Limerick www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/17...
- Were you a fan of Playmobil? Invented by Hans Beck,they’ve been produced in Germany since 1974.Activities extend beyond #play #collecting . #playmobil figures/playsets/related stories being photographed/researched by Lauren Kavanagh #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland 👉 museumofchildhood.ie/playmobil-fi...
- #SaferInternetDay #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland ‘s Claire Daly’s article museumofchildhood.ie/celebrating-... Children and young people have the right to fully participate in the digital world—not just as consumers, but as creators, activists, & change makers! museumofchildhood.ie/childrens-ri...
- “…It felt like for that short bit of time coming home I had freedom, and anything could happen…”Aaron Sunderland Carey, recently on @tommytiernan.bsky.social @rteone.rte.ie shared about his journey to school #WhenWeWereKingsAndQueens #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland 🎨 museumofchildhood.ie/when-we-were...
- Six in 10 adults in North had a childhood trauma in ‘major public health challenge’ www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025... @freyamcc.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @irishtimes.com #children #childhood #Ireland #health #mentalhealth #museumofchildhoodireland
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- #DesmondMorris at 97, a #zoologist #ethologist #surrealist #artist #author on human sociobiology #Kildare exhibits worldwide & #Dúnlaoghaire Institute of Visual Art, reflecting here on his walk to school👉 museumofchildhood.ie/when-we-were... #WhenWeWereKingsAndQueens #museumofchildhoodireland
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- Islandwide/diaspora project explores how children travelled to school in the past….generally unsupervised! Their Insightful remembrances on navigating their world. Enjoy! love to hear your story too❤️ museumofchildhood.ie/when-we-were... #Childhood #JourneyToSchool #walk #cycle #bus #PatrickKavanagh
- On the anniversary of #JamesJoyce ‘s birth we take a 👀 at annual initiatives (2017-present) at #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland for #community #Children #intergenerational inspired by his work. Looking forward to #Bloomday2025 museumofchildhood.ie/bloomsday/ #Bloomsday #Education
- Annunciation To the memory of Ann Lovett d. January 31st 1984, by Leo Cullen. #AnnLovett #child #15yearsOld #LeoCullen #Poet #MussumOfChildhoodIreland #MúsaemÓigeNahÉireann
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- Board of Museum of Childhood Ireland (MoCI) annual strategy day, Lexicon, Dúnlaoghaire: Inclusive/holistic exploration of historical/contemporary childhood, inspires critical reflection & stimulates important conversations islandwide/diaspora #Ireland #children #adults #childhood #museum #heritage
- Celebrating Burns Night at #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #Músaemóigenahéireann #BurnsNight2025 #RobertBurns #BurnsNight #Scotland #ToAMouse #TimerousBeastie #childhoodPoems #poetry #collections #CharlotteRaftery
- Tipperary Workhouse Children and the Famine. Anne Lanigan @tippstudies.bsky.social
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- International Day of Education 2025, Preserving Agency in a World of Automation #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #ChildRights Agency=control over things that affect your life. Article 12 of #UNCRC ensures young people have a say over the decisions to do with them: museumofchildhood.ie/internationa...
- Our Children’s Advisory Team meet up with #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland facilitators @harryshier.bsky.social & @hadjertaibi.bsky.social museumofchildhood.ie/our-second-i... @eemereivers.bsky.social #children #childhood #museum #participation #teamwork #inclusion #accessibility #placemaking #lundyModel
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- Professor James Kelly’s engaging talk on Chimney Sweeps, Climbing Boys and Child Employment in Ireland, 1775–1875, at one of our 1st Event days in #Dúnlaoghaire #Ireland 👉https://museumofchildhood.ie/heritage-week-2018/ 📖 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... & 🗞️ www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... 🙏
- 165 paintings of children from the 16th to 19th centuries, including works by Ottavio Leoni, Frans Pourbus the Younger and François Quesnel. Many of the children did not live to adulthood. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #children #childhood
- Illustrator Helen Oxenbury: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... @theguardian.com @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social #Illustrator #Author #Books #Children
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- Come,children,gather round my knee; Something is about to be. Tonight’s December thirty-first, Something is about to burst. The clock is crouching,dark & small, Like a time bomb in the hall. Hark!It’s midnight,children dear. Duck!Here comes another year #OgdenNash #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #NewYear
- What a fantastic, family friendly #NewYear2025 #fireworks celebration from @dlrcc.bsky.social @failte-ireland.bsky.social in #Dúnlaoghaire 🙏🥳 #DunlaoghairePier #Dublin #Ireland #celebration #family #familyhttp://www.dlrcoco.ie/dlr-events/event/nyf-dublin-fireworks-spectacular-dun-laoghaire-harbour
- Happy St Stephens Day/Lá an Dreoilín/Wren Day to friends worldwide from all at Museum of Childhood Ireland, Músaem Óige na hÉireann. Image: Jack B. Yeats RHA (1871-1957), The Wren Boys www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland... www.independent.ie/life/a-bunch... #StStephensDay #Ireland #LáAnDreoilín
- A very happy Christmas, Nollaig Shona from all the team at the #Museum of Childhood Ireland, Músaem Óige na hÉireann. Children’s #Christmas letters to their mother. Walter & Louisa Reid, Kingstown ( #Dúnlaoghaire) #Ireland #1870s museumofchildhood.ie/walter-and-l...
- Michael Farry on reading in school #Sligo with a special mention of #EnidBlyton ‘s the Famous Five… 👉https://museumofchildhood.ie/michael-farry-on-reading-in-childhood/ #MúsaemÓigeNahÉireann #childrensliterature #books #Child #EvaGoreBooth #NoraNiland #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland
- Filmmaker Alan Lambert remembers his walk from Sallynoggin to school in Glasthule & his father’s stories about the area: museumofchildhood.ie/when-we-were... #Dúnlaoghaire 👉 #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #WhenWeWereKingsAndQueens #Músaemóigenahéireann #child #children #adolescence #school #walk
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- Joyous celebrations from #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland at #Bloomfields #Dúnlaoghaire #Children from Dominican NS decorated the #ChristmasTree in a series of workshops using recycled/reusable materials. Their chosen theme #Peace #childhood #museum #puppet 🎄https://museumofchildhood.ie/puppet-show/
- Our last magical ✨ Art/ Craft/ Create/ Imagine/ Play Workshop for 2024: 🧑🎨 museumofchildhood.ie/tir-na-nog-t... 🎨✍️ See you all in Jan 2025! 🎉 #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #MúsaemÓigeNahÉireann #culture #Heritage #Arts #Education #Ireland🙏 #FaberCastell
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- Beautiful footage from @rte.ie Archives #1980s of children paying a visit to Santa's Castle in Dúnlaoghaire Shopping Centre. Recognise anyone!? www.rte.ie/archives/202... #Dúnlaoghaire #Christmas #Santy #SantaClaus #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #MúsaemÓigeNahÉireann
- Explore the enduring magic✨ of Joan Aiken, Mollie Hunter, and Violet Needham, with Dr Supriya Baijal from the #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #MúsaemÓigeNahÉireann ‘s #Literature Team: 📖 museumofchildhood.ie/rediscover-t... #JoanAiken #MollieHunter #VioletNeedham #books #children #readers
- A code that hasn’t been deciphered since Robert Henri wrote it as a 15 year old in 1880 is deciphered! 🧑🎨https://museumofchildhood.ie/15-year-old-henris-diary/ 🎨 #art #artist #diary #childhood #RobertHenri #child #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #MúsaemÓigeNahÉireann #code #Deciphered
- And so it begins…🥳🥰 Ralphy 🐶 is stoical! 😂 Late Late Toy Show 2024! 🎉#Ireland #RTE #LateLateToyShow #Christmas @rte.ie
- #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland ‘s ‘The Children of Achill & Robert Henri Project/Festival’ 2023, inspires an exhibition in the artist’s boyhood home #Cozad #Nebraska museumofchildhood.ie/achill-nebra... #MuseumÓigeNahÉireann #RobertHenri #Achill #Children #Art #history #culture #heritage #Museum
- Santa letter from 10yr old Hannah Howard,Terenure, Dublin, 1911: Dear Santa Letter sent 100 years ago found up chimney irishtimes.com/news/dear-sant… census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dub��� #Christmas #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #children #Santa @irishtimes.bsky.social
- Join us at Bloomfields S C on Dec 13th for a seasonal celebration with McCormick’s Puppets. Shows at 1:00, 2:30, and 3:30 pm! 🎭 🥳 👉museumofchildhood.ie/puppet-show/ #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #MúsaemÓigeNahÉireann #Bloomfields #Dúnlaoghaire #Ireland #children #Christmas #museum #puppetry #puppets
