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The remains of 13 people, which were stolen in 1890, were returned to the island last Sunday, but it has been a 10-year journey to make that happen, writes Ciarán Walsh
The skulls of Inishbofin are back where they belong - on the island where they first came from. According to anthropologist Pegi Vail, who revealed...
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Simple coffin carried the 13 skulls to the ruins of St Colman’s Abbey, where they had been spirited away by anthropologist Alfred Cort Haddon in 1890
This year, on February 22, Trinity College Dublin made an historic announcement that it would return 13 skulls stored for over 130 years in the Old...
Just as Trinity College Dublin needs to confront its shameful association with George Berkeley, the Trevelyan family needs to acknowledge Charles's role in the Famine.