Events 23-24

Cork DFAS 10th Anniversary Year

 

The following trips are being planned for 2024, so watch this space for details …

February: Hunt Museum 

March: National Museum, Dublin  and either IMMA or the Chester Beatty

April: Kilshannig and Annesgrove House 

May: National Gallery Dublin: Turning Heads: Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer. 

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Previous events this year:

18 November 2023: Double Event, On Tour – Hanging Out with Warhol & Lavery

Guided private tours of two major exhibitions  

Lavery On Location

National Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Square, Dublin 

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Andy Warhol Three Times Out

Hugh Lane Gallery, Parnell Square, Dublin

19 October 2023: Double Bill Guided Tours Event, Crawford Gallery & The Sculpture Factory

Innovation and Creativity Through the Looking Glass of Time: Past, Present & Future  

Through the artworks exhibited in “Site of Change: Evolution of a Building” Dr Tom Spalding guided us through its varying incarnations: from Cork Customs House (built 1724) to present day Crawford Gallery; via Royal Cork Institution, Cork School of Design and Crawford School of Art.

Guided by Elma O’Donovan, a tour of an oft overlooked jewel in Cork’s crown, The National Sculpture Factory followed. A hub of creativity, it facilitates innovation and strives to empower artists within its 16 studio spaces. 

30 September 2023: Combined event at the Glucksman and UCC

Aideen Barry Monocopsis Drawings 2020

Guided tour of selected UCC artworks located in the O’Rahilly Building, the Stone Corridor and the new Student Hub building, led by Senior Glucksman Curator Tadhg Crowley.

Creative workshop,  Discover the Art of Collage and Décollage, under the guidance of artist Aoife O’Connell in the Works studio in the basement of the Glucksman Gallery.

John Halpin  Joanna  2018 

Joy Gerrard  Protest against Brexit in London  2018 

 

13 September – Free Public Lecture

Doomed Inheritance; Two weeks of destruction in North Cork, August 1922, by Mr Bill Power, local Mitchelstown historian

7pm in Cork Central Library in Grand Parade.

28 July 2023  – special visit to Áras an Uachtaráin

We were delighted to commence the celebrations of our 10th  Anniversary with a special visit to Áras an Uachtaráin on Friday 28th of July, including a guided tour of the formal rooms.

We presented a gift of committee member Ann Wilson’s book The Picture Postcard: a new window into Edwardian Ireland (pub. Peter Lang).