Lectures and Talks 2022

Lectures:

27 January 2022 Annual General Meeting

Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) and her Irish patrons and collectors: Robert and Dorothea Hellen

Dr Toby Barnard FBA, University of Oxford

 

24 February 2022

Colm Mháirtín Thomáis (1893-1975): An Irish Singer and his World

An tOllamh Ríonach uí Ógáin, UCD

 

24 March 2022 Annual Próinséas Ní Chatháin Memorial Lecture

Ársaitheoir Lochlannach: G.J. Thorkelin agus a chuairt ar Bhaile Átha Cliath, 1789

Dr Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, Aberystwyth University and the University of Copenhagen

 

28 April 2022

The Antiquaries, the Public Records and the Fire of 1922

Dr Peter Crooks, Beyond 2022 and TCD

 

26 May 2022 The Annual Helen Roe Memorial Lecture

Churches in the Irish Landscape, AD 400-1100

Dr Tomás Ó Carragáin, UCC

 

29 September 2022

Goddard Henry Orpen: Humanist, Scholar and Polymath

Dr Philip Bull, La Trobe University

 

27 October 2022 The Annual Frank Mitchell Memorial Lecture

The Irish passage tomb tradition:  Building on the insights of Frank Mitchell

Dr Robert Hensey, Archaeologist

 

24 November 2022

Dublin’s first public housing schemes:  choices and challenges

Dr Joseph Brady, UCD and Dr Ruth McManus, DCU

 

15 December 2022

Visualising the Past: the use of 3D technologies in the interpretation and conservation of cultural heritage

Dr Eimear Meegan, Virtual Building Lab, Dublin

 

 

TALKS:

7 February 2022

The most generous effort made to give us our history: the tasks of the Irish Manuscripts Commission

Prof. John McCafferty, Chair, Irish Manuscripts Commission and UCD

 

 

7 March 2022

Early medieval royalty to Gaelic nobility? Continuity and change at Caherconnell Cashel, Co. Clare

Dr Michelle Comber, NUIG

 

4 April 2022

Gender and Medieval Archaeology in Ireland: practices past and present

Dr Karen Dempsey, NUIG

 

9 May 2022

Idols and unclean things: a Late Iron Age idol from Gortnacrannagh, Co. Roscommon and its context

Dr Eve Campbell, Senior Archaeologist, Archaeological Management Solutions (AMS)

 

5 September 2022

Picking up the Pieces: The Moynagh Lough Excavation Project, Phase 3

Dr Michael Potterton, MU

 

10 October 2022

The role of ICOMOS in the conservation of cultural heritage

Dr Fidelma Mullane, President ICOMOS Ireland

 

7 November 2022

‘Our young Eriskay collector’: Donald MacDonald (Dòmhnall Èirisgeach, 1912-1989), The Irish Folklore Institute and fieldwork in the Southern Outer Hebrides.

Dr Tiber Falzett, UCD