Calling all amateur or novice weavers. Participants will learn how to weave on a card loom as we meander through the history of weaving in the Liberties. All materials will be included in a pack that participants will be given on the day. At the end of this session everyone will have woven a bookmark,...
The images are black and white. The issues aren't. Learn about the War of Independence through the photographs of W.D. Hogan from the National Library of Ireland's photograph collection in this online tour of the exhibition 'From Turmoil to Truce': Photographs of the War of Independence.
A story of politics, art and friendship. Lady Augusta Gregory, née Persse (Roxborough, Galway, 1852 - Coole Park 1932), had a remarkable life, mainly devoted to literary studies and writings on Irish theatre and folklore. In 1880 she assumed the title Lady Gregory upon marrying Sir William Gregory (1817-1892). The former governor of Ceylon introduced...
Marie Bourke delivers a talk on Sir Frederic William Burton (1816-1900) historic pre-Famine painting The Blind Girl at the Holy Well -Scene in the West of Ireland. Marie Bourke is a Dublin-based museum professional and cultural historian, formerly Keeper-Head of Education at the National Gallery of Ireland. During her time at the National Gallery she...
Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941) was one of Dublin’s finest portrait painters but she also immersed herself in the political and social fabric of Dublin life, becoming the first female elected as a Dublin City Councillor in 1912. This talk, in the historic setting of Dublin's Mansion House, will examine her importance in the history of...
Historian James Curry will discuss the work of artist Mina Carney (1892 - 1974) whose portrait bust of James Larkin is part of the Hugh Lane Gallery's collection. Mina Carney was an American sculptor. She received part of her training in Vienna and Rome and travelled to Mexico to work in sculptors’ studios there. Like...
How do museums look after the artworks in their care? The return of an important pair of Japanese handscrolls to the Chester Beatty after extended conservation treatment overseas gives us an opportunity to explore this highly specialised field. For this talk, we welcome Conservators Andrew Thompson and Sydney Thomson from Restorient studio in Leiden, Netherlands,...
How do museums look after the artworks in their care? The return of an important pair of Japanese handscrolls to the Chester Beatty after extended conservation treatment overseas gives us an opportunity to explore this highly specialised field. For this talk, we welcome Conservators Andrew Thompson and Sydney Thomson from Restorient studio in Leiden, Netherlands,...
Frank Whearity Local historian Frank Whearity presents on a Skerries monument dedicated to the three townsmen who gave their lives for Ireland, and which stands in the Holmpatrick Cemetery, Skerries. It was unveiled on Sunday 29 October 1950, to commemorate John ‘Terry’ Sherlock, a single man aged 22 years who was killed by Black and...