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FREE talk today! Little Lives, Great Stories:Childhood in the #PhoenixPark #Dublin
Lexicon library Dúnl, L. 5.
4-5pm Thurs 8th Oct
Image:Phoenix Park @opwireland.bsky.social
Link: museumofchildhood.ie/little-lives...
#MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #MúsaemÓigenNahÉireann #children #history #PhoenixPark
October 8, 2026 at 10:57 AM
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Megan McCauley looks at Co. Donegal hiring fairs & their criticism in the press museumofchildhood.ie/a-sadder-sig...
#MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #MúsaemÓigeNahÉireann #Donegal #Children #history #labour
Photo:’Fair Day,Glenties,Co.Donegal L ROY 09764,The Lawrence Collection @nlireland.bsky.social
November 24, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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Celebrating #JamesJoyce #Bloomsday with James Joyce’s lovely grandnieces & their children in ☀️ #Dublin as we announce finalists 2026! museumofchildhood.ie/bloomsday-20...

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June 17, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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🙏 #Bloomsday 2026 Judge, Jen Hogan, Irish Times journalist, columnist, broadcaster, author, host of The Conversations with Parents podcast:
✍️ museumofchildhood.ie/bloomsday-2026… #museumofchildhoodirelandnd @jenhoganjourno.bsky.social @marshslibrary.bsky.social @bloomsdayfestival.bsky.social
June 7, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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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
Irish Museums Association IMA name/ logo and Museum of Childhood Ireland name and pinwheel logo
February 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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#Dublin “… #nature …a thatched cottage #Galway... a whole other world...no running water…sanitation...chickens, sheep, cows, donkeys...we could run wild for the summer…” #ThatWilderBond :
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March 26, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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Celebrating #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland ‘s fantastic #Bloomsday2026 #YoungAuthors judge Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi museumofchildhood.ie/bloomsday-20... with @marshslibrary.bsky.social
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May 29, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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To everyone waiting on Leaving Certificate results... good luck from all of us at the Museum of Childhood Ireland. We’re rooting for you.

#MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #MúsaemÓigenahÉireann #Children #YoungPeople #Education #LeavingCertificate #ExamResults #PathwaysToEducation
August 20, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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#NiamhCampbell reflects for #ThatWilderBond 🌿https://museumofchildhood.ie/that-wilder-bond-9/ 🌱Stories gathered museumofchildhood.ie/that-wilder-... #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #MúsaemÓigeNahÉireann ✍️ Send your #story info@museumofchildhood.ie #book📕for #libraries spacehive.com/thatwilderbond
March 23, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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With our friends @marshslibrary.bsky.social we celebrate another fab #Bloomsday Young Authors judge. Thanks Chiara Valcelli museumofchildhood.ie/bloomsday-20... #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #MuseúmÓigeNahÉireann #JamesJoyce #children #creativeWriting @bloomsdayfestival.bsky.social @cdsi.bsky.social
May 31, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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🙏 Daniel Mulhall for museumofchildhood.ie/bloomsday-2026… former Irish Ambassador Kuala Lumpur/Berlin/London/ WDC & Global Distinguished Prof Irish Studies @gihnyu.bsky.social Fellows,Magdalene, Cambridge @harvardcolalumni.bsky.social#Bloomsdaya#museumofchildhoodIrelandnd @marshslibrary.bsky.social
June 8, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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#ThatWilderBond #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #MúsaemÓigeNahÉireann #AnTaisce
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May 8, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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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�#Christmash#MuseumOfChildhoodIrelandd#childrenc#Santan #Santa @irishtimes.bsky.social
December 1, 2024 at 11:03 AM
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“a long strip of trees between these and the road still survived in an abandoned, overgrown state. There I spent countless hours, either with friends or alone, climbing trees, making hideouts, running through he woods…” #ThatWilderBond #EoghanDaltun #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland
irishrainforest.bsky.social Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · Mar 7
I was very kindly asked by the @museumofchildhood.bsky.social to contribute a personal story related to my childhood and nature, which I did.

You can read it here:
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March 7, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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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
Life on Achill Island in the 1950s through the eyes of a schoolboy | Connaught Telegraph
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February 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Today we celebrate and thank our ‘Bloomsday Young Authors’ judge Jennifer Powell 🙏 BP of Rights at @scholasticuk.bsky.social museumofchildhood.ie/bloomsday-20...

#museumofchildhoodireland #músaemóigenahéireann #bloomsday #JamesJoyce @marshslibrary.bsky.social @bloomsdayfestival.bsky.social
June 11, 2026 at 7:51 AM
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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
December 12, 2024 at 10:40 AM
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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
Black white image of Joyce in Childhood wearing a sailor suit. On the anniversary of James Joyce’s birth we take a look at annual initiatives (2017 to present) at #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland museumofchildhood.ie for #community #Children #intergenerational inspired by Joyce’s work. Looking forward to #Bloomday2025 👉museumofchildhood.ie/bloomsday/ #JamesJoyce #Literature #Bloomsday
February 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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“…Back in light, my bark peeled off
My roots turned back to feet
But now I speak in creaking tongues
For once I was a tree…” #KillianBuckley ‘s #poem for #ThatWilderBond #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #MúsaemÓigeNahÉireann supported by @antaisce.bsky.social : museumofchildhood.ie/that-wilder-... #Kerry
June 3, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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“Who Are Your Waters? My rivers are the Morell stream on the outskirts of Naas…”
Elaine McGoff for #ThatWilderBond #museumofchildhoodireland #músaemóigenahéireann #AnTaisce in full here: museumofchildhood.ie/that-wilder-... museumofchildhood.ie/that-wilder-... #children
May 25, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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The #MuseumofChildhoodIreland ‘s #Children’sAdvisoryTeam meeting at #TrinityCollegeDublin fun, exciting day…learning, exploring, working together...sharing ideas on something so important as the museum 🌎 museumofchildhood.ie/childrens-ad...
April 23, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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He fumbled in his pocket, “Can you read?” he asked, pulling me from my private appraisal of his apparel. “Yes, I’m a good reader for my age.” museumofchildhood.ie/that-wilder-... www.spacehive.com/thatwilderbond #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #ThatWilderBond #WorldBookDay #support @spacehive.bsky.social
March 5, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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Child citizenship taken seriously means providing opportunities to form/express views;engage in active listening;respond to others’ viewpoints & spaces for difference/acceptance museumofchildhood.ie/children-as-... museumofchildhood.ie/we-are-the-c... #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #GeneralElection2024
November 28, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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#CáscaShona #HappyEaster 🐣 Bo Peep in green dress, bonnet, felt shoes, staff & little lamb & doll in red/white stripe dress, Easter bonnet, handbag, purse & shoes. Sally Wellman’s dolls at the #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #MúsaemÓigeNahÉireann in collections 👒 museumofchildhood.ie/sally-wellma...
Wishing you all a #cáscashona !Two dolls: Little Bo Peep doll in green dress, bonnet, felt shoes, with staff and her little lamb, and doll in red/white striped dress, Easter bonnet, handbag, purse and shoes. Sally Wellman’s dolls from the #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #easter #MúsaemÓigeNahÉireann collections 👒 https://museumofchildhood.ie/sally-wellmans-dolls/
April 5, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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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
December 9, 2024 at 9:43 AM