TLRH | The Hublic Sphere | Past, Present and Potential at the Museum of Childhood Ireland

Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts · Mar 15, 2022 · 38m

Recorded March 15, 2022. In this episode, Lorraine McEvoy speaks to Majella McAllister (founder, head of Youth Voices Team) and Professor Mary O ’Dowd (head of History Team) about the Museum of Childhood Ireland (MOCI, https://museumofchildhood.ie), “Ireland’s first Island-wide / diaspora / global, social history Museum of Childhood.” The ultimate aim of the voluntary group behind the Museum is to establish a physical, interactive and community driven museum, which seeks to be research based, critically engaged and more than simply a repository of nostalgia. They aim to provide both a museum…