Season 10 programme:
All lectures apart from our Free Public Lecture at Cork Central Library, will take place in the Conference Room at Nano Nagle Place at 11:30am on the second Saturday of each month.
13 September 2023: Free Public Lecture
Mr Bill Power, author and Mitchelstown Historian: ‘Doomed Inheritance; Two weeks of destruction in North Cork, August 1922’
Mr Bill Power
14 October 2023
Robert O’Byrne (aka ‘The Irish Aesthete’): ‘The Irish Country House today’
Summergrove, Co Laois and Gloster, Co Offaly, photos Robert O’Byrne
11 November 2023
Dr Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch, former Curator of the National Gallery: ‘Mia Cranwill (1880-1972): Craftswoman of Distinction’
Mia Cranwill: Senate Casket (1924), Royal Irish Academy
9 December 2023
Dr Eimear O’Connor, Consultant and Curator: ‘AE (George William Russell) the Artist – a Myriad-Minded Man’
‘Boglands’ by AE (George W Russell), Ireland, undated, oil on canvas Chazen Museum of Art
10 February 2024
Ms Sian McInerney, Collections Project Manager, Hunt Museum: ‘Delving into the life and career of Sybil Connolly through the Sybil Connolly Collection at the Hunt Museum’
Sybil Connolly: Sketch, Blackbird
Sybil Connolly: Lavender evening gown, detail
9 March 2024
Dr Kristina Decker: ‘Mary Delany: A Creative Life in Eighteenth-century Ireland’
13 April 2024
Artist,Shane O’Driscoll pictured in his Studio, Cork City Centre.
Picture: Clare Keogh
Mr Shane O’Driscoll, visual artist and designer: ‘A journey in colour and shapes’
Print Installation, Trinity School of Business, Dublin (photo Myles Shelley)
11 May 2024
Ms Patricia O’Reilly, writer of biographical historical fiction: ‘William Orpen at War’
William Orpen: The Thinker on Butte de Warlencourt