The Pallasboy Project
The Pallasboy Project (2015-) is a collaboration between Dr. Benjamin Gearey (archaeologist), Mark Griffiths (woodworker), Brian Mac Domhnaill (photographer & visual artist) and others. The project, which is funded by the World Wood Day Fund via the International Wood Culture Society 2015-2018, aims to explore the creative process involved in the crafting of prehistoric wooden artefacts beginning with the ‘Pallasboy Vessel’, an Iron Age wooden artefact discovered in 2000 in Pallasboy townland, Toar Bog, Co. Westmeath. In addition to a role centred on visual documentation and dissemination Brian Mac Domhnaill also curates additional participatory outputs such as The Pallasboy Sounding, 2014 and The Second Sounding, 2018.
Dr. Benjamin Gearey, Caitríona Moore, Mark Griffiths and Brian Mac Domhnaill on site at Meitheal Mara, Cork City, 2015
The Second Sounding. A Pallasboy Project event, The Granary Theatre, Cork. 15th September 2018. Billy Mag Fhloinn (replica Iron Age horn), Solamh Kelly (replica Iron Age wooden vessel), Robert Curgenven (sound), Brian Mac Domhnaill (curation and video)
