Category Archives: National Museum

The pattern and the system that enables

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Adrienne

Two women reached out to me after I wrote my blog posts about Andy Halpin’s sexual harassment of me at the National Museum of Ireland. Their accounts demonstrate the pattern of how this man preys on women in the workplace. … Continue reading →

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Vomiting slugs to tell full truths

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Adrienne

I’d rather vomit slugs than name the truths of my experience of working at the National Museum of Ireland, but if I don’t do it I spend the rest of my life living with slug-like lodgers of my work-life past, … Continue reading →

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A Workplace Fable

Posted on February 12, 2017 by Adrienne

Once upon a time, I worked in a crumbling old archaic and beautiful institution*. Within its many walls, two worlds co-existed side by side, adjacent and sometimes overlapping, but utterly distinct and separate and unrecognisable from one another in character … Continue reading →

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Recombobulating in redundancy

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Adrienne

My family and I began to experience a time of turbulence last March when I learned that my contract at the National Museum of Ireland wasn’t going to be renewed. On paper, it shouldn’t have come as a shock – … Continue reading →

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