01.10.2024, 18:30 P.M.
Depicting Dublin: understanding Dublin's architecture, urban morphology and social history through early maps, prints, drawings and photographs.
The Irish Georgian Society, in partnership with Dublin City Council's Heritage Office, presents a series of thematic talks which will explore Dublin's architecture, urban morphology and social history through the examination of early maps, prints, drawings and photographs.
- Tuesday 1st October: Maps and the story of Dublin
by Dr Joseph Brady, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Geography, UCD and co-author of Dublin: Mapping the City (2023)
- Tuesday 8th October: From Speed to Rocque: mapping early modern Dublin, 1610-1756 by
Colm Lennon, MRIA, Professor Emeritus, History Department, Maynooth University, and author of the RIA Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Dublin, part II, 1610 to 1756 (2009) and the RIA Dublin 1610 to 1756: the making of the early modern city (2009)
- Tuesday 15th October: Malton’s Dublin Prints: picking through the details by Graham Hickey, CEO Dublin Civic Trust and co-author of Malton’s Views of Dublin: The Story of a Georgian City (2021)
- Tuesday 22nd October: Georgian Dublin in Maps by Rob Goodbody, historian and conservation consultant and editor of the third volume of the RIA Irish Historic Towns Atlas of Dublin, part III 1756 to 1847 (2014)
- Tuesday 5th November: Two Cities, Two Maps: John Rocque’s London and Dublin compared by Dr John Montague, Associate Professor of Architecture at the College of Architecture Art and Design, at the American University of Sharjah, and co-author of John Rocque’s Dublin: a guide to the Georgian City (2010).
- Tuesday 12th
November: Hugh Douglas Hamilton’s The Cries of Dublin (1760) Revisited by
William Laffan, art dealer and editor of The Cries of Dublin, Drawn from the Life by Hugh Douglas Hamilton (2003)
- Tuesday 19th
November: Dublin in Ordnance Survey Maps by Paul Ferguson, Map Librarian, Trinity College Dublin, co-author of Dublin: Mapping the City (2023)
- Tuesday 26th
November: City Views: Art, Architecture and Dublin's Painters by Dr Kathryn Milligan, art historian, author of Painting Dublin: Visualising a changing city, 1886 – 1949 (2021).
- Tuesday 3rd
December: Finding Dublin in the photographic archive: an exploration of the city's Dublin’s architectural heritage through historic photographs by Dr Orla FitzPatrick, Research Fellow, Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute & author of Lost Ireland (2021).
- Tuesday 10th December: 19th century Bird’s Eye Views of Dublin: where Art and Mapping meet by Arran Henderson, Dublin Decoded architectural tour guide.
Attendance at the talks is recognised by the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland as formal CPD (1 point per talk: 10 CPD talks for the whole course) and the Irish Planning Institute.
BOOKING DETAILS
The lectures will take place in the O'Connell Room at the IGS's City Assembly House over nine consecutive Tuesday evening. The talks, which are an hour in duration, will commence at 6.30pm (doors open at 6.15pm).
*Those making whole course in-person bookings will also receive a link to watch the live recording. Additionally, the day after each talk, everyone (whole course booking in person/whole course bookings virtual/individual in person talk bookings/individual talk virtual bookings) will receive a link to watch the recording for a two-week period.
The Society is pleased to offer the talks in person and online (through Zoom) at both a whole course discounted rate and on an individual lecture basis.
- Whole course in person City Assembly House bookings cost is €120 (& the recordings available to watch for a 2-week period)
- Whole course virtual talks cost €90 (& the recordings is available to watch for a 2-week period)
- Individual virtual talks cost €12.50 each (& the recordings available to watch for a 2-week period)
- Individual in person talks cost €15 each (& the recording available to watch for a 2-week period)
*Please note that if purchasing tickets for virtual talk after 3pm on the day of the talk then then the Society cannot gaurantee that you will be issued with the link to watch the talk live, however you will recieve the link to watch the recroding the day after.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: This talk is part of the Irish Georgian Society's Conservtion Education Programme which is supported by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. The Society also wishes to thank Dublin City Council's Heritage Office for partnering on this talk series, and The Heritage Council for their support of the Irish Georgian Society through its Heritage Organisations Support Fund.
If you are interested in other talks relating to architecture, check out the Ireland Architecture Diary.
