Volume XX of Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies will be in stock shortly. A new set of 4 journal boxes has been issued to coincide with this milestone. Made by Duffy’s Bookbinders here in Dublin, these beautiful boxes are the perfect way to store and display your journals. Costing only €100 for the set of 4 and benefiting the IGS scholarship fund, available exclusively from the IGS bookshop.

Prices
€35 each + PP
€ 60 for 2 boxes + PP
€100 for set of 4 + PP

Purchase instore or online from www.igs.ie/shop

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The City Assembly House and bookshop will be closed on Thursday 24th May for building works. There will be no access to the building on this date. The building and bookshop will re-open on Friday 25th May from 10.00am to 6.00pm. The IGS office will be business as usual, 9.30am to 5.00pm.

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DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama returns to its first home in the City Assembly House in South William Street, to perform in the beautiful newly restored Knight Of Glin Exhibition Room at the Irish Georgian Society. On 15^th October 1890, the Dublin Municipal School of Music opened its doors at the Assembly Rooms in William Street.  Today, DIT Conservatory provides high quality, performance-based arts education encompassing a vibrant Junior Conservatory, third-level degree programmes and the Research Foundation for Music in Ireland. 

Monday 30^th April, 6pm
Georgian String Quartet
Inana Garis (violin 1), Anna Mc Kenna (violin 2), Dionne Timms (viola), Peadar Ó Loinsigh (cello)
Performing Dvořák’s String Quartet No.12 ‘American’ and Haydn’s String Quartet, Op.33 No.2 ‘The Joke’ 

Monday 14^th May, 6pm
DIT Harps perform classical and Irish traditional music in solo and ensemble contexts.

Monday 21^st May, 6pm
Cue Saxophone Quartet
Ryan Hargadon (soprano), Robert Finegan (alto), Sean Kenny (tenor) and Stephen O’Brien (baritone)
The Cue Saxophone Quartet perform a unique and exciting selection of pieces from 20^th and 21^st centuries, including works by Jean Françaix, Jun Nagao and Joby Talbot. 

These concerts are free to the public to attend.

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Interested in 18th-century art? If you can spare a few hours of your time this summer, we are currently looking for exhibition volunteers for our exhibition Exhibiting Art in Georgian Ireland: The Society of Artists' Exhibitions Recreated. The exhibition will be open to the public seven days a week, 10am to 5pm from Saturday 16 June to Sunday 29 July. 

If you are interested in invigilating please fill out the application form. All invigilators who commit to at least one shift a week over the six weeks will receive a copy of the illustrated exhibition catalogue, edited by William Laffan, exhibition curator Dr Ruth Kenny and Dr David Fleming (dependent on availability). All invigilators will receive an invite to the invigilators thank you party (date and venue TBC).
 
There will be a training day for all invigilators, with the exhibition curator Dr Ruth Kenny in early June – details will be sent to applicants in the coming weeks.

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Silver in Georgian Ireland symposium, National Museum of Ireland, Wednesday 30^th May 2018

The Irish Georgian Society, Maynooth University and the National Museum of Ireland are partnering to deliver a symposium on Wednesday 30^th May 2018 focusing on silver in Georgian Ireland.

The symposium will showcase new research by established and emerging scholars, and examine the circumstances in which silver objects were made, used, valued and displayed in Georgian Ireland.

The symposium will to appeal to both a general and specialist audience of academics, collectors and members of the public.  It seeks to offer a variety of engaging perspectives on one of Dublin’s foremost artisanal trades during a period when new commodities, novel technologies and fashionable imports were transforming the market for luxury goods.  The programme of talks will be complemented by a tour of the National Museum of Ireland’s silver galleries, an unrivalled display of Irish silver from the period, which will allow both experienced and novice silver scholars the opportunity to consider the artefact evidence at first hand.

2018 marks the 21st anniversary of the opening of the silver galleries at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks.  It thus represents a timely moment to reflect on one of the highlights of the decorative arts collection, which has not been explored before in the context of such a focused study day.  The inclusion of speakers from the United Kingdom and Europe allows for a nuanced view of silver in Georgian Ireland, considering how the movement of people, patterns, and plate in the early-modern world affected what was crafted and coveted in Irish towns and cities.    

Tickets: €125 (includes lunch).

View the full programme online here.

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The IGS office will close today at 5.00pm for the Easter weekend, re-opening on Tuesday 3rd April at 9.30am.

The IGS bookshop opening hours are: 

Friday 30th: Closed
Saturday 31st: 10.00am to 6.00pm
Sunday 1st: Closed
Monday 2nd: Closed
Tuesday 3rd: 10.00am to 6.00pm

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