GAC April Meeting with Clodagh Doyle (National Museum of Ireland)
April 13 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Galway Astronomy Club are pleased to announce details of our April club meeting, which will take place at 7.30 pm on Monday the 13th of April in the Ardilaun Hotel, Taylors Hill, Galway.
Talk: ‘Folklore of the Night Sky – How the skies have influenced our everyday folk culture’.
This talk will take us on a journey through time and locations as Clodagh discusses the deep connection between our culture and the night sky. An interesting insight into the believes people held about the importance and influences of the heavenly bodies. With some wonderful stories and valuable terminology in English and Irish passed down to us through time.
Speaker: Clodagh Doyle, Keeper, Irish Folklife Division
Clodagh Doyle has been working with the Irish Folklife Collection of the National Museum of Ireland since 1995 and is now based at Turlough Park, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, the fourth site of the National Museum of Ireland.
She has a degree in Irish Folklore and Archaeology and her MA thesis is on the subject of Traditional Hearth Furniture.
As a long-serving curator she had responsibilities for the Calendar Customs, Religion, Sport & Leisure, Childhood, Textiles, Ceramics & Glass Collections.
She worked in the National Museum of Ireland’s Dublin sites and on the inaugural exhibitions at the NMI – Decorative Arts & History, Collins Barracks, Dublin. She played a pivotal role in the inception, development and installation of the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life and the move of the Irish Folklife Collection to its new store and galleries in Co. Mayo in 2001.
She curated many of the permanent gallery displays at the NMI – Country Life and also curated over thirty temporary exhibitions, two of which, Down Memory Lane and Hair Hurling Balls have travelled throughout Ireland.
With a love for folklore, ethnology, objects and the Museum, Clodagh was appointed Keeper of the Irish Folklife Division in 2020.