03.04.2018, 18:30 P.M.

Making Majesty: The Marquess of Buckingham’s Presence Chamber at Dublin Castle

In September 1788, a fanfare of publicity greeted the creation of the new Presence Chamber at Dublin Castle. ‘All’, wrote one newspaper correspondent, ‘will be splendour and magnificence’. But all was not as it seemed. This lecture explores the evolution of the space that was once the nexus of the nation’s regal ceremonies, in the context of the aims and aspirations of its majestic maker.

 Dr Myles Campbell works for the OPW at Dublin Castle, in the Collections, Research and Interpretation office. He is co-editor of Making Majesty: The Throne Room at Dublin Castle, A Cultural History (Irish Academic Press, 2017), and co-curator of the associated exhibition at Dublin Castle. His research for this project has earned him the inaugural George B. Clarke Prize.

Image: George 1st Marquess of Buckingham 1783 (Courtesy of St. Patricks Cathedral  Dublin)

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