The Irish Architectural Archive’s annual report for 2011 is now available here: http://www.iarc.ie/about-the-iaa/annual-reports.
Category: Irish Architectural Archive
IAA AGM Notification
To all memebrs of the Irish Architectural Archive: the 35th Annual General Meeting of the Irish Architectural Archive will take place in 45 Merrion Square at 5.30 pm on Tuesday, 15 May 2012.
Celebrating Pugin
Celebrating Pugin: Dr Rory O’Donnell discusses A.W.N. Pugin, architecture and Ireland on The God Slot, RTE Radio 1, Friday 13 April at 10 pm www.rte.ie/radio1/thegodslot.
Listen back here: http://bit.ly/IOku9a. The Pugin piece starts at 21 minutes 40 seconds.
Celebrating Pugin
Continuing in the Architecture Gallery at the Irish Architectural Archive – Celebrating Pugin: An exhibition of drawings by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin marking the bicentenary of his birth.
The Architecture Gallery is open to the public from 10 am to 5 pm, Tuesdays to Fridays.
Accessing the IAA over Easter
The IAA Reading Room and Architectural Gallery will close to the public at 5 pm on Thursday 5 April. The Reading Room and Gallery will reopen at 10 am on Tuesday 10 April.
A Glimpse of Empire Lecture
To mark the publication of A Glimpse of Empire by Jessica Douglas-Home
the IAA will host an illustrated lecture,
From Ireland to India, the story of Lilah Wingfield’s journey from Powerscourt to the Delhi Durbar of 1911
Tuesday 3 April at 6.30 pm, 45 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.
BOOKING ESSENTIAL
Please contact Simon Lincoln: slincoln@iarc.ie or the Archive at 01 6633040
Celebrating Pugin Lecture Series
The Celebrating Pugin lecture series is now over. The Archive is extremely grateful to Rory O’Donnell, Christine Casey, Lynda Mulvin, Freddie O’Dwyer, John Maiben Gilmartin and Michael Tierney for sharing so freely of their time and expertise.
We would also like to thank all those who came to the lectures and helped to make this one of the most successful Series organised by the Archive to date.
Celebrating Pugin Lecture Series
The last lecture in the Celebrating Pugin free lunch-time series is on today at 1.15pm:
Restoring Pugin’s Heritage in Ireland – Experiences of a Conservation Architect.
Michael Tierney, Conservation Architect
A Glimpse of Empire Lecture
To mark the publication of A Glimpse of Empire by Jessica Douglas-Home
the IAA will host an illustrated lecture,
From Ireland to India, the story of Lilah Wingfield’s journey from Powerscourt to the Delhi Durbar of 1911
Tuesday 3 April at 6.30 pm, 45 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.
BOOKING ESSENTIAL
Please contact Simon Lincoln: slincoln@iarc.ie or the Archive at 01 6633040
Celebrating Pugin Lecture Series
Just one lecture left in the Archive’s incredibly successful (even if we do say so ourselves), fully booked out, lecture series to coincide with the ‘Celebrating Pugin’ exhibition marking the bicentenary of the birth of this great Victorian architect:
Thursday 29th March at 1.15pm,
Restoring Pugin’s Heritage in Ireland – Experiences of a Conservation Architect.
Michael Tierney, Conservation Architect
The exhibition will run until the end of May.