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Another successful Culture Night here at Academy House!
Friday, 23 September 2016This year we welcomed 1467 visitors through the doors and we had plenty for them to see and hear.
New Lives in the DIB: Edward Delaney
Wednesday, 21 September 2016Edward Delaney, sculptor, who died 22 September 2009, executed two of Dublin’s most familiar public monuments: the bronze statues of Wolfe Tone and of Thomas Davis.
Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: Commonage, Callan Co. Kilkenny
Tuesday, 20 September 2016This project was fuelled by fuelled by concern for the decline of small towns all over Ireland.
Edward Delaney: a leading figure of Irish sculpture in the twentieth century
Tuesday, 20 September 2016Delaney is best known for monuments to Thomas Davis and Theobald Wolfe Tone, both commissioned for the semi-centenary of the 1916 Easter rising.
Vacancy: Senior Executive Assistant
Monday, 19 September 2016The Academy is seeking applications to fill the position of Senior Executive Assistant.
Ardagh Chalice
Friday, 16 September 2016Regarded as the finest piece of ecclesiastical metalwork to have been found in Ireland
Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: Laundry by Louise Lowe
Friday, 16 September 2016The dark shadow over modern Ireland is cast by the vast complex of coercive confinement
Women in the Visual Arts
Friday, 16 September 2016Women have played a particularly important part in the history of Irish art in the twentieth century
Collections and Display in Ireland
Tuesday, 13 September 2016The motivation behind collections varies. It may be for reasons of documentation, education, preservation or connoisseurship, each presenting their own priorities in selection and methods of display.
The DIB in the news: Discovery of HMS Terror
Tuesday, 13 September 2016Recently, one of the greatest prizes in marine archaeology – HMS Terror – was located in Terror Bay, south of King William Island, Nunavut, Canada.