Nathan Mannion
Nathan currently serves as the Senior Curator of EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum having worked there since 2016. A frequent contributor to the Irish Times newspaper and Irish Lives Remembered magazine his focus is primarily on the Irish diaspora’s contributions to the world. He is a Heritage Studies graduate of Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology where he specialised in Museum Studies and completed an MA in Arts Management and Cultural Policy at University College Dublin in 2020. Originally from Carlow he has previously worked with the national Heritage Council’s Museum Standards Programme for Ireland and as Deputy Curator of Rothe House Museum & Gardens. He has served on the Irish board of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) since 2018 and currently co-ordinates International Museum Day on behalf of ICOM Ireland.
In addition to his work with ICOM he is also the Irish representative on the international Migration Museums Network (MMN) and a member of the Europeana network.