Museum Ireland - Publications, Research & Reports

Museum Ireland (ISSN 0961 9690) is the annual journal published by the Irish Museums Association and contains selected proceedings from conferences and other events that have taken place throughout each year, critical discussion pieces, articles on new developments, along with book, museum, and exhibition reviews. 

Published in hard copy format from 1991 until 2015, following a three-year hiatus Museum Ireland returned as an online journal in 2019. Archival issues of Museum Ireland may be purchased from the IMA office or accessed at the National Library of Ireland and various university libraries around the country. 

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Museum Ireland, Vol. 29 (2022) was produced as an online publication in 2023, edited by Dr Briony Widdis. Freely accessible, see below listing to access and download as PDF, or read this and archived journals on Issuu.  

 

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Istrian emigration meets the museum: encouraging dialogue and understanding between ideologies.

Author:

NikoÄević, L.

Year:

2014

Publication:

Museum Ireland

Volume:

24

Pages:

19-25

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Festival studies and museum studies - building a curriculum.

Author:

Nic Ghabhann, N.

Year:

2014

Publication:

Museum Ireland

Volume:

24

Pages:

27-40

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The renovation of the Royal Museum for Central Africa and implications for colonial history.

Author:

Gryseels, G.

Year:

2014

Publication:

Museum Ireland

Volume:

24

Pages:

41-53

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Where contemporary art and histories can meet.

Author:

Carey, H.

Year:

2014

Publication:

Museum Ireland

Volume:

24

Pages:

55-61

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Terror and hunger, disease and death: Ireland's Great Hunger Museum.

Author:

O'Sullivan, N.

Year:

2014

Publication:

Museum Ireland

Volume:

24

Pages:

63-72

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Institutionalising the Rising: the National Museum and 1916.

Author:

Libreri, E.

Year:

2014

Publication:

Museum Ireland

Volume:

24

Pages:

73-82

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The importance of museums in shaping Qatar’s national identity.

Author:

Doherty, C.

Year:

2014

Publication:

Museum Ireland

Volume:

24

Pages:

83-89

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Presenting the past: evaluating archaeological exhibitions in museums in the Republic of Ireland.

Author:

Gilligan, D.

Year:

2014

Publication:

Museum Ireland

Volume:

24

Pages:

91-103

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Developing early years programming at the National Gallery of Ireland.

Author:

Drum, J.

Year:

2014

Publication:

Museum Ireland

Volume:

24

Pages:

105-109

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I go to seek a Great Perhaps - engaging youth audiences.

Author:

McCarthy, A.

Year:

2014

Publication:

Museum Ireland

Volume:

24

Pages:

111-122

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