abevan July 3rd, 2009
The Royal Irish Academy’s most recent exhibition features exhibits from the Academy’s rich natural history collections with those of the National Botanic Gardens and the Natural History Museum.
The exhibits are used to tell the story of how Darwin came by his ideas and how Robert Lloyd Praeger and his co-workers on the Clare Island Survey strove to investigate some of the questions at the heart of Darwin’s work, ‘throwing light on the question of island life and the problems of dispersal’.
The findings of the first surveys, together with the work of the modern New Survey of Clare Island (1992–2009), provide unique insights into the increasingly important issues of turnover of species, climate change and loss of habitat.
Venue: Academy House, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2.
Monday-Friday 10.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. (excluding dates of conferences, please check the website)
The exhibition is accompanied by a series of free lunchtime lectures and associated events.
A new book, also called Darwin, Praeger and the Clare Island Surveys, amplifies the themes of the exhibition through contributions by Peter Bowler, Timothy Collins, Thomas Duddy, Matthew Jebb, Greta Jones, Conleth Manning and Martin Steer.
Tags: Exhibitions, Royal Irish Academy
abevan July 2nd, 2009
If ever you go to Dublin town, an exhibition of evocative photographs by Elinor Wiltshire chronicling Dubliners as they worked, played, shopped and prayed during the 1950s and 1960s, opens at the National Photographic Archive in Temple Bar, Dublin.
Born in Limerick, Elinor Wiltshire (nee O’Brien) founded the Green Studios on St Stephen’s Green, Dublin, with her husband Reginald Wiltshire in the 1950s. Over a period of about fifteen years, using a Rolleiflex camera, Elinor Wiltshire captured images of a changing city and its people.
Her photographs reveal an artist’s eye for the beauty that exists in everyday life; shoppers in Cumberland Street’s busy second-hand market (see photo); summer outings on Sandymount Strand; exuberant scenes of All Ireland Football Finals fans at railway stations; Corpus Christi processions through the city of Dublin.
The exhibition will continue in the National Photographic Archive, Meeting House Sq, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 until October 2009.
Opening Hours: Mon – Fri: 10am – 5pm; Saturday: 10am – 2pm.
Admission is free.
Contact Details: Tel: +35316030378; Email: photoarchive@nli.ie
Photograph courtesy of the NLI
Tags: Exhibitions, National Library of Ireland
abevan May 14th, 2009
Visit The Library Show, the ideal place to:-
- Discover the latest products and services on display from over 120 exhibitors
- Learn from the wide ranging free seminar programme
- Develop new skills and update your knowledge
- Share ideas and best practice with other librarians.
June 10-11 2009, NEC, Birmingham, U.K.
Opening times: 10.00 – 16.00.
Entrance is free to all visitors.
Pre-register here. Continue Reading »
Tags: Exhibitions, News & Events
abevan November 24th, 2008
Treasures.. is an exhibition of some of the items in the collection of the Royal Irish Academy. The exhibition continues at the RIA (19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2) until December 23 2008
The exhibition is normally open Mon – Fri, 10.00am – 5.00pm (dates of conference meetings excluded). Visitors welcome, groups by appointment, tel. 01-676 2570; email: library@ria.ie.
The exhibition is designed to coincide with the publication of a new book, Treasures of the Royal Irish Academy Library, edited by Bernadette Cunningham, Siobhán Fitzpatrick and Petra Schnabel, scheduled for publication by the Academy in late November 2008.
Unusual items from the Academy’s ‘Treasures’ currently on display include the harp made by John Egan of Dublin in 1821 and owned by Thomas Moore, Ireland’s national poet, and the Senate Casket designed in 1924 by Mia Cranwill to hold the membership roll of the first senate of the Irish Free State. The original roll, containing the signatures of the senators, is also on view. Continue Reading »
Tags: Exhibitions, Royal Irish Academy
