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DIB entry of the day: Mary Leadbeater
17 April 2019Professor Mary O'Dowd, MRIA, will today deliver a lecture 'The Shackleton sisters: Irish Quaker women c. 1750-1850' the fifth and final event in the current lunchtime series, 'Sisters', celebrating the lives and...
DIB entry of the day: Katherine Conolly
09 April 2019As part of the RIA lunchtime series ‘Sisters’, Dr Gabrielle M. Ashford this Wednesday presents her lecture 'Ties that endure – the lives and correspondence of three eighteenth-century sisters – Katherine Conolly, Jane...
DIB entries of the day: Lollie and Lily Yeats
03 April 2019As part of the current RIA lunchtime series ‘Sisters’, Dr Lucy Collins delivered her lecture '"Who will ever say again that poetry does not pay?": The Yeats Sisters and the Cuala Press ' at Academy House.
'Prodigies of learning': Academy women in the nineteenth century
From: Monday, 09 July 2018To: Friday, 03 May 2019
Exhibition exploring the varied worlds of five women selected as Honorary Members of the Academy in the nineteenth century
A Forgotten Polish Hero of the Great Irish Famine: Paul Strzelecki’s Struggle to Save Thousands
From: Thursday, 09 May 2019To: Friday, 30 August 2019
An exhibition by the Polish Embassy in Dublin exploring the fascinating life and achievements of one of the great humanitarians of the nineteenth century.
