Anya Willow O’Brien

Gaeltarra Éireann's Crolly Doll, 1939-1979, exist as anthropological tools that embody chapters of Irish industrial, cultural and identity history through several avenues. Exploring these themes through the varied lenses of doll studies and material culture, "Dolly Identities" excavates the industrial labour of Donegal's Gaeltacht region, the evolution of projected traits of "Irishness" and the layers of its consumption.

Adopting perspectives of doll studies and incorporating dolls of a cultural nature, Dolly Identities explores the avenues of dolls as objects of diverse nature, from toy to souvenir, in the back drop of the canon of Irish Design and Material Culture.

From construction to consumption, Gaeltarra Éireann's Crolly Dolls exist as mass amalgamation of recurrent themes central to the field of design history and material culture, Dolly Identities projects this through the channel of doll history.