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

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 and a platform; connecting the history of childhood
with the experiences of children today. As they pursue the
establishment of a physical museum, the team have worked on
numerous traveling exhibits, community initiatives and projects
such as the “Children’s Voices Project 2020/21: Together, Le
Chéile” which sought to provide an outlet for children, in addition
to creating an archive of children’s responses to the COVID-19
pandemic. In this episode, we talk about topics ranging from the
origins of the Museum to the range of its voluntary teams and
initiatives, definitions of Irish childhood and how we can
respectfully include the full range of childhood experiences. The
Museum has a very active social media presence, and you can find
them on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter (@museumofci).
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