Irish Georgian SocietyBoard

Apied, Mary - Founding Director and President of Trinity Foundation, the fund raising and alumni relations arm of Trinity College, retired in 2015. Member of the Board of The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), the Irish Landmark Trust, Druid Theatre, Dance Theatre of Ireland and is on the Development Committees of The Lir Academy for Dramatic Art and Kylemore Abbey. Mary has over thirty years experience of fundraising and strategic change in universities and non-profit organisations.

Barber, John, DL MRICS - Chair of IGS London , director of House Mill Trust , director of Newham Music , Deputy Lieutenant for Greater London for HM the King , founding liveryman of the Arts and Scholars Livery company and trustee of its charitable trust. Chief executive officer of L M Kendon Settlement .

Browne, Victoria - Member of City Assembly House Committee; previously board member of IGS; former Collections & Museum Standards, Irish Heritage Trust; former board member Castletown Foundation.

Coleman, Zoë - Graduate of University College Dublin (BA Arts)and University of Glasgow (MLitt). Her thesis ‘The representation of Ireland at long nineteenth-century exhibitions’ was subsequently adapted for publication in ‘Irish Architectural And Decorative Studies, Volume XVII’ (Dublin: Irish Georgian Society, 2015), pp. 136-157. Chair of the Young Irish Georgians since 2016, and worked for the Society from 2015 to 2020 as Programmes and Communications Coordinator. An alum of the Attingham Summer School (2018). Currently Programme Manager at the Royal Irish Academy. Joined the Board of the Irish Georgian Foundation in September 2023.

Cooney, Thomas (US) - Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at MedPoint Digital, Inc. In addition to being Chair of the Irish Georgian Society, Inc. Board of Directors, he is a member of the Royal Oak Society, the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, and benefactor to the Archdiocese of Chicago and the Juvenile Protection Association; he supports global conservation, education and social charities.

Earley, William - William graduated from University College Dublin (BA Economics & Politics) in 1970 and was admitted as a solicitor in Ireland in 1973. He practised as a solicitor in the field of company and commercial law in Dublin for nearly 40 years, 32 of them as a partner in McCann FitzGerald. He served as Managing Partner of the firm from 1993 to 1997. William now concentrates on serving as director or in other advisory roles in the voluntary sector. He graduated after retirement from Trinity College Dublin with an M.Phil. in the History of Irish Art and Architecture.

Hall, Jacqueline - is Founder and Principal of Partners in Communication, a firm that provides expert advice in Public Affairs, Corporate Communications & Governance and Stakeholder Engagement. She has worked for global brands and national organisations, across several business sectors - Retail, Technology, Media, Environment, Biotech, Industry Groups, Energy, and NGO's. She has just completed her second term as a member of the Board of Governors and Guardians of the National Gallery of Ireland and previously served as President of the Public Relations Institute of Ireland. Former board member of Irish Water, Ervia, and former Council Member of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce. She graduated from University College Dublin with a BA (Hons), History & History of Art, and holds further qualifications from Technical University Dublin (Marketing Management), UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School (Grad Dip in Corporate Governance), The Honourable Society of King’s Inns (Advanced Dip in Data Protection Law/GDPR), and Trinity College Dublin (Grad Dip in Conflict & Dispute Resolution)

Lucey, Dr. Conor - Architectural and design historian; Associate Professor in the School of Art History and Cultural Policy, University College Dublin

Moorhead SC, Sara - Barrister, Member of the Council of the Bar of Ireland from 2013 to 2017 as a Senior Counsel, and previously a member of the Counsel of the Bar of Ireland as a Junior Counsel from 1995 to 1999. Former member of the Education Committee of the King’s Inns between 1995 and 2017, and of the Standing Committee of the Council of the King’s Inns from 2014 to 2017. Sara was elected as a Bencher of the Honorable Society of King’s Inns in 2015 and sits on the Boards of Irish National Opera and the Denham Fellowship.

Murray, Peter, B.A., M. Litt, Ph.D. (hc) - Artist and art historian, former director, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (retired 2017); co-editor Vol V, Art and Architecture of Ireland (RIA 2014); honorary doctorate UCC 2019; longtime contributor to Irish Arts Review and other publications, member IGS City Assembly House Exhibition Committee 2018 to present.

Sweeney, Charlie - Chartered Accountant, and retired Director with EY Financial Services Group; Fellow of the Institute of the Chartered Accountants in England and Wales; Treasurer of the Irish Georgian Foundation; member of the IGF Audit &Risk and Governance Committees.

Wall, Michael - Chairman of the Irish Georgian Foundation. Practising barrister, architect (FRIAI) and planner (MIPI); MBA Smurfit Business School at UCD. Board member National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) and Abbey Theatre. Former board member, An Bord Pleanála, Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) and Irish National Opera. Trustee of Simpson's Hospital, Dublin. Founding chairperson, Wide Open Opera.

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Donough Cahill, Executive Director
Oversees the strategic and day-to-day operations of the IGS and works with the Irish Georgian Foundation’s Committee of Management, its standing committees and working groups and with the Society’s North America and UK based membership in this regard.

Sir David Davies, President Irish Georgian Society
A banker by profession, Sir David started his business career in 1963 with Chase Manhattan Bank in New York, and then with Hill Samuel, the leading English merchant bank in New York and then London. In 1973 he became Finance Director of MEPC. He moved to Hong Kong in 1983, becoming a director of Jardine Matheson and managing director of Hong Kong Land and returned to London in the late 1980s where he became chief executive of Hill Samuel. In the 1990s he served both as Chairman and Chief Executive of Johnson Matthey and was subsequently appointed as Chairman of EFG Private Bank Ltd in London from 1999 to 2006. He was awarded the Knights Bachelor in the 1999 New Year’s Honours List. Sir David lives in Abbey Leix, Co. Laois, which he has carefully and judiciously conserved and restored. He also restored his family home at Killoughter in Co. Wicklow.

Primrose Wilson CBE, Vice-President Irish Georgian Society
Chair of IGS Grants Committee, former board member of the Irish Georgian Foundation from 2011-2017 and vice-Chair from 2014-17; founding Chair of the Irish Follies Trust, former President of Ulster Architectural Heritage, and former Director of the Ulster Historic Churches Trust.

Elizabeth Dater, IGS Inc board representative
Retired Managing Director, Angelo, Gordon & Co., board member of Irish Georgian Society Inc., The New-York Historical Society, NYU Langone Medical Center, The New York Community Trust, Prep For Prep, and ShareGift USA.

Updated - November 2023