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What's On Exhibitions Collection Events - Issue no: 4 Spring 2018 - National Gallery of Ireland
Nuacht ón Ghailearaí                Update

Spring

                                          Musician Sean Furey views Junks (red), 1913 by Emil Nolde (1867-1956), at the
                                          official opening of the exhibition Emil Nolde: Colour is Life.
                                          © Nolde Stiftung Seebüll
                                          Photo: Iain White / Fennell Photography

Colour Show                                             Nolde
Spring exhibitions at the Gallery offer a splash        “The room just pops with colour.”
of colour, from Emil Nolde’s Large Poppies (Red,        Katherine Waters, theartsdesk.com
Red, Red), 1942, to the exquisite hues of Rose
                                                        “…ferocious, fiery colours, intense emotion, and
Barton’s Going to the Levée at Dublin Castle, 1897.
                                                        shocking eroticism…”
Emil Nolde: Colour is Life is on view until 14 June
                                                        Alastair Sooke, The Telegraph
(Admission €15/10/5 concessions). See Barton’s
work with a host of other Dublin scenes for             “Menace and rawness saturate Nolde’s powerful
FREE in the Print Gallery from 5 May.                   works.”
                                                        Jonathan Jones, The Guardian
See & Do
We have a spring programme for all ages. There          Emil Nolde: Colour is Life, with its riot of colours,
are five special events in May as part of the           is the first major Irish exhibition of work by this
Bealtaine Festival - Ireland’s national                 German Expressionist artist with a controversial
celebration of the arts and creativity as we age.       life and a huge artistic legacy. It opened to the
In a series of lunchtime concerts, music lovers         public on Valentine’s Day and continues to 10
can listen to the six Irish competitors who will        June 2018. Tickets €15, great concessions from
take part in the 2018 Dublin International Piano        €5. Children and Friends of the Gallery go FREE.
Competition. And National Drawing Day on
Saturday 19 May has sessions for children and           Upcoming
adults.                                                 A-Z: Early Sources in Art History 1547-1900
                                                        1 March - 17 June 2018
More info on page 6, or see the
spring calendar, pages 8-11.                            Guercino: Journey of a Masterpiece
                                                        10 March - 27 May 2018
Go Social                                               Drawing Dublin
Be the first to hear about the latest events and        5 May - 26 August 2018
updates about the Gallery by following us on
our social media channels: Facebook, Twitter            Circus250: Art of the Show
and Instagram. Or discover the collection online        9 June - 14 October 2018
in a welcoming digital space, with our mobile-
responsive website.

For further information visit:
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Catalogue:
                Easter                       Colour is Life
                Closing
    The Gallery closes early (5.30pm)
         on Holy Thursday, 29 March
                 and is CLOSED on
             Good Friday, 30 March.

      Normal opening hours resume            New scholarly essays offer insights into this
                                             master artist, featuring full colour images
           from Saturday 31 March.           of the bright flowers, cabaret life and exotic
                                             voyages that inspired him. Emil Nolde:
                                             Colour is Life exhibition catalogue, €24.95,
                                             from the Gallery Shop.

National Gallery of Ireland, Grand Gallery
Photo: Chris Bellew / Fennell Photography

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Taispeántais       Exhibitions

On View & Opening

                                                             Guercino (1591-1666)
                                                             Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph, c.1620

                                                             Guercino: Journey of a Masterpiece
                                                             10 March - 27 May 2018
                                                             Hugh Lane Room (31) | Free admission
Emil Nolde (1867-1956), Singer (in a green dress), 1910-11   In 2016 we partnered with the J. Paul Getty
© Nolde Stiftung Seebüll
                                                             Museum to conserve the Italian masterpiece
                                                             Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph, c.1620, by
Emil Nolde: Colour is Life                                   Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591-1666), known
Until 10 June 2018                                           as Guercino. Considerable work, and research
Beit Wing | Tickets €15/10/5                                 on the piece was carried out in the Getty
Book online: www.nationalgallery.ie                          Museum’s painting conservation studio.
FREE for FRIENDS of the National Gallery of                  Conservators, curators and scientists worked
Ireland                                                      collaboratively for 19 months.
Emil Nolde (1867-1956) was a prolific painter
and printmaker. This exhibition, a collaboration             To celebrate its return to the Gallery in March
between the Scottish National Gallery of                     2018, the painting will take centre stage in an
Modern Art and the National Gallery of Ireland,              exhibition detailing the technical research and
presents a bold and colourful survey of his                  challenges of the project.
paintings, drawings, etchings, and woodcuts.                 Also included will be fascinating material
This is the first major exhibition on this German            selected from the Sir Denis Mahon library and
Expressionist artist in Ireland in over fifty years,         archive. This will offer additional insight into the
with a significant body of works on loan from                history and provenance of this stunning work of
the Nolde Foundation, Seebüll.                               art.
Nolde Public Programme                                       A-Z: Early Sources in Art History 1547-1900
A programme of events supports the exhibition,               1 March - 17 June 2018
Emil Nolde: Colour is Life. For key information,             Room 11 | Free admission
pick up a copy of the Nolde brochure in the                  A showcase of highlights from our library
Gallery, and for full listings see our website.              collections, chronicling art reference
                                                             publications over four centuries.
For further information visit:
www.nationalgallery.ie
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Drawing Dublin
5 May – 26 August 2018
Print Gallery | Free admission

James Malton (1761-1803), The Custom House, Dublin, 1793

“When I die Dublin will be written         watercolours inspired a very
in my heart.” James Joyce                  successful print series,
(1882-1941)                                published by Malton in the
                                           1790s.
Dublin has famously inspired               Images of ordinary Dublin
writers including Joyce, whose             people by Sarah Purser and
novel ‘Ulysses’ evokes the city of         Michael Healy will sit alongside
the 1900s. The city and                    topographical works by artists
surrounding countryside has                like Michael Angelo Hayes;
inspired many visual artists also.         Flora Mitchell and Harry
                                           Kernoff, giving a real sense of
This exhibition of works on                Dublin as a lively and changing
paper, drawn from the                      place, home to a diversity of
Gallery’s own collection,                  citizens throughout its history.
includes a wealth of Dublin-
related images in a wide                   Curator
variety of media. Landscapes               Anne Hodge, Curator of Prints
                                                                              William Orpen (1878-1931)
and figure studies will feature            and Drawings, with Niamh
                                                                              Merchants’ Arch, Dublin, c.1909
in the Print Gallery’s newly               MacNally, Assistant Curator of
refurbished display cases.                 Prints and Drawings, National
Centre-stage is a group of                 Gallery of Ireland.
magnificent large-scale                    Public Programme
watercolours by James Malton               A public programme of talks
who recorded the fine public               and activities will complement
buildings of the eighteenth                the show.
century. These dramatic

See more on exhibitions and public programmes:
www.nationalgallery.ie
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Don’t Miss!
                                                                   Nuacht ón Ghailearaí         Update

Talk: What makes a Steinway Grand? FREE              Dublin International Piano Competition FREE
Thursday 19 April, 6.30pm, Shaw Room                 Lunchtime Concerts 12.30pm, Shaw Room
Ulrich Gerhartz, Director of Concert and Artist      7 March     Eoin Fleming
Services at Steinway & Sons, London, who             16 March    Antonia Huang
prepares pianos for world-famous performers          23 March    J.J. McNamara
across the globe, will reveal his fascinating and    20 April    Billy O’Brien
meticulous work, using the Grand Piano on loan       4 May       Peter Regan
to the Gallery for concerts from the Royal Irish     11 May      Cahal Masterson
Academy of Music.                                    The National Gallery of Ireland is delighted to host
In Conversation:                                     the six Irish competitors who will take part in the
The Legacy of Maeve Brennan FREE                     2018 Dublin International Piano Competition (18-29
Sunday 29 April, 3pm                                 May).
The Long Gaze Back – An Anthology of Irish Women
                                                     Artist’s Choice
Writers, edited by Sinéad Gleeson, is the 2018
                                                     Sunday 15 April, 3:30pm
selection for Dublin City Council’s Dublin: One
                                                     The Royal Irish Academy of Music and the
City, One Book. It includes the work of Maeve
                                                     Gallery will bring some of Ireland’s most
Brennan, the New-York based Irish writer whose
                                                     distinctive artists together with a musical
work was neglected for many years. As part of
                                                     ensemble from the RIAM. The artists will
the festival, we will host an in-conversation
                                                     nominate the ensemble to play works of special
event with Sinéad Gleeson, Aoife Barry and
                                                     personal significance to them.
Angela Bourke. Public programming on the day
                                                     Tickets: www.riam.ie
will complement the festival.
                                                     Daniel Rowland: RIAM Performance
National Drawing Day FREE
                                                     Sunday 20 May, 3pm
Saturday 19 May
                                                     The final concert of our 2017/2018 partnership
National Drawing Day takes place on Saturday
                                                     with the Royal Irish Academy of Music will
19 May, with dozens of venues participating
                                                     feature the charismatic violinist Daniel Rowland
nationwide. Check out our website to find a
                                                     alongside the RIAM Chamber Orchestra, playing
venue near you.
                                                     Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and Piazzolla’s
Bealtaine Festival                                   tango-inspired The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.
Wednesdays in May at 3pm                             Tickets: www.riam.ie
The Bealtaine Festival - Ireland’s national
                                                     Tuesday Talk & Tea
celebration of the arts and creativity as we age
                                                     On the second Tuesday of each month, an
– takes place in May. The Gallery has five events,
                                                     illustrated talk inspired by the Gallery’s
all linked to the Emil Nolde exhibition. Learn
                                                     collection and exhibitions will be followed by a
more through guided tours and discussions, or
                                                     chat over tea and coffee.
get involved on a practical level through
                                                     Tickets €5, see www.nationalgallery.ie
watercolour; still life; and drawing.
Tickets €5, see www.nationalgallery.ie               National Gallery Images – Buy Online
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Acquisitions
                                                    Dragana Jurišić
                                                    We are pleased to announce the acquisition of
                                                    Tarantula, 2017, by Dragana Jurišić, originally
                                                    included in Inspiration and Rivalry: After Vermeer,
                                                    an exhibition of new work by the artist, with
                                                    Brian Fay and Maser, which ran from 2-17
                                                    September 2017 in the Gallery’s Millennium
                                                    Wing Studio. The work was created in response
                                                    to our major 2017 exhibition Vermeer and the
                                                    Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry.
                                                    Dragana was born in Slavonski Brod, Croatia
                                                    (then Yugoslavia). Based in Dublin, she works in
                                                    photography. In 2009, she was selected as an
                                                    Axis MAstar. She obtained her PhD from the
                                                    European Centre for Photographic Research,
                                                    Wales in 2013 and has since received Special
                                                    Recognition, Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize
                                                    2014; the Emerging Visual Artist Award;
                                                    residencies in Dublin and Paris; and a bursary
Dragana Jurišić (b.1975)
Tarantula, 2017
                                                    from the Arts Council of Ireland.
Archival pigment print                              www.draganajurisic.com
75.8 cm x 63.8 cm

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                                                    Emil Nolde (1867-1956), Large Poppies (Red, Red, Red), 1942
    Patron of Irish Art: €450                       © Nolde Stiftung Seebüll
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Féilire an Earraigh
Spring Calendar
March
Events free unless indicated €                                                  Saturday 10 March
€ Buy Tickets                                                                   12.30 & 2.30 - Tours
from www.nationalgallery.ie or
                                                                                Sunday 11 March
the Exhibition Ticket Desk
                                                                                11.30-1.30 - Drop-in Family
Guided Tours                                                                    Session
Book in advance                                                                 11.30 - Tour
E tours@ngi.ie                                                                  12.30 - Family Tour
T (01) 663 3510                                                                 1.30 - Tour
Is féidir turais trí Ghaeilge a chur   Emil Nolde (1867-1956), Light breaking
                                                                                3.00 - Lecture In and Out of
in áirithe freisin.                    through, 1950 © Nolde Stiftung Seebüll   Place: Nolde’s Landscapes as
                                                                                Discourses on Belonging
Audio Tours FREE                       Sunday 4 March                           Frances Blythe, Edinburgh
Audio guides for children and          11.30-1.30 - Drop-in Family              College of Art, University of
adults are available from the          Session                                  Edinburgh
Information Desk.                      11.30 - Tour
Tá an Chlostreoir le fáil i            12.30 - Dublin Chinese                   Monday 12 March
nGaeilge. Déan fiosrú ag an            New Year Festival Film                   2.00 - New Parents’ Tour
Deasc Eolais.                          Screening China’s Van Goghs
Tailored Tours FREE                    12.30 - Family Tour                      Tuesday 13 March
We provide Irish Sign Language         1.30 - Tour                              11.00 - Talk and Tea €5 The
tours; tours for the hard of           3.00 - In-Conversation Event             Real Emil with Shane Morrissy
hearing and for those who are          As part of the Nolde Education           1.15 - Pop-Up Talk
blind/visually impaired; people        Programme, Artist Imogen
with dementia and their carers;        Stuart, RHA, in conversation             Thursday 15 March
and selected community &               with Donal Maguire, NGI, with            6.20 - In Conversation Tour
youth groups. Pre-book                 a screening of Imogen Stuart:            Emil Nolde: Colour is Life
education@ngi.ie                       Dealbhóir by Sharon Whooley,             Art Historian Aoife Convery
                                       Harvest Films                            & Artist Fala Buggy (Nolde
                                                                                Exhibition Ticket Required)
Thursday 1 March                       Tuesday 6 March                          6.30 - Pictiúir den Iarthar, Turas
6.30 - Tour                            1.15 - Pop-Up Talk                       trí Gaeilge le Caomhán Mac
                                                                                Con Iomaire
Friday 2 March                         Wednesday 7 March
1.15 - Pop-Up Talk                     12.30 - Lunchtime Piano                  Friday 16 March
Emil Nolde: Heimat                     Concert                                  12.30 - Lunchtime Piano
Shane Morrissy (Nolde                  Eoin Fleming, Shaw Room                  Concert
Exhibition Ticket Required)
                                                                                Antonia Huang, Shaw Room
                                       Thursday 8 March                         1.15 - Pop-Up Talk
Saturday 3 March                       6.30 - International Women’s
12.30 & 2.30 - Tours                   Day Tour                                 Saturday 17 March
                                                                                12.30 & 2.30 - St. Patrick’s Day
                                                                                Themed Tours
For further information visit:
www.nationalgallery.ie
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March contd.                                                              April
Sunday 18 March                                                           Sunday 1 April
11.30-1.30 - Drop-in Family                                               11.30-1.30 - Drop-in Family
Session                                                                   Session
11.30 - Tour                                                              11.30 - Tour
12.30 - Family Tour                                                       12.30 - Family Tour
12.30 - Film Screening Gerard                                             12:30 - Special Screening
Dillon: Painter and Decorator                                             The Private Life of an Easter
1.30 - Tour                                                               Masterpiece, Caravaggio’s ‘The
                                     © Pimlico Project                    Taking of Christ’
Tuesday 20 March                                                          1.30 - Tour
                                     Monday 26 March
1.15 - Pop-Up Talk
                                     12.00 & 2.00 - NGI Baby
                                                                          Tuesday 3 April
Thursday 22 March                    Workshops €5 Book from
                                                                          1.15 - Pop-Up Talk
6.00 - Flavours of Art €35           9am, Tuesday 20 March only
Supper event Emil Nolde:             on www.nationalgallery.ie            Thursday 5 April
Colour is Life                                                            6.30 - Tour
6.30 - Tour                          Tuesday 27 March
                                                                          6.30 - Tour for the Hard of
                                     1.15 - Pop-Up Talk
                                                                          Hearing
                                     Wednesday 28 March
                                                                          Friday 6 April
                                     1.15 - Pop-Up Talk
                                                                          1.15 Pop-Up Talk
                                     Guercino Conservation:
                                                                          A Conservator’s View: The
                                     A Closer Look
                                                                          Painting Technique and Materials
                                     Ele von Monschaw
                                                                          of Emil Nolde
                                     Thursday 29 March                    Ele von Monschaw (Nolde
                                     Holy Thursday – Gallery              Exhibition Ticket Required)
The Shaw Room, National Gallery of
Ireland Photo: Roy Hewson            closes early 5.30pm
                                                                          Saturday 7 April
Friday 23 March                      Friday 30 March                      12.30 & 2.30 - Tours
12.30 - Lunchtime Piano              Good Friday - Gallery Closed
Concert                                                                   Sunday 8 April
J.J. McNamara, Shaw Room             Saturday 31 March                    11.30-1.30 - Drop-in Family
1.15 - Pop-Up Talk                   12.30 & 2.30 - Tours                 Session
Emil Nolde: Metropolis                                                    11.30 - Tour
Sarah Wilson (Nolde                                                       12.30 - Family Tour
Exhibition Ticket Required)                                               1.30 - Tour

Saturday 24 March                                                         Monday 9 April
12.30 & 2.30 - Tours                                                      2.00 - New Parents’ Tour

Sunday 25 March                                                           Tuesday 10 April
11.30-1.30 - Drop-in Family                                               11.00 - Talk and Tea €5 Nolde:
Session                                                                   The Artist’s Garden with Janet
11.30 - Tour                                                              McLean
12.30 - Family Tour                                                       1.15 - Pop-Up Talk
1.30 - Tour                          Allegory of Art. Cesare Ripa, Nova
                                                                          Thursday 12 April
3.00 - Lecture Tracking Figures      Iconologica, 1618
                                     From the display                     6.30 Tour
in Cloud Formations: Emil Nolde
                                     A-Z: Early Sources of Art History    6.30 Art Appreciation
as Printmaker                        1547-1900                            Course Modernism and Colour
Dr Christian Weikop, Edinburgh       1 March - 17 June 2018
                                                                          €100 with Shane Morrissy
College of Art, University of        Room 11
                                                                          (12 Apr-10 May)
Edinburgh
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Féilire an Earraigh
Spring Calendar
April contd.                                                      May
Saturday 14 April                Sunday 22 April
12.30 & 2.30 - Tours             11.30-1.30 - Drop-in Family
                                 Session
Sunday 15 April                  11.30 - Tour
11.30-1.30 - Drop-in Family      12.30 - Family Tour
Session                          1.30 - Tour
11.30 - Tour                     3.00 – Documentary
12.30 - Family Tour              Screening The Destruction of     © Pimlico Project
1.30 - Tour                      Memory
3.30 - Artist’s Choice RIAM      Followed by Q&A with Tim         Tuesday 1 May
Concert € Tickets www.riam.ie    Slade, director of the award-    1.15 - Pop-Up Talk
                                 winning film
Monday 16 April                                                   Wednesday 2 May
12.00 & 2.00 - NGI Baby          Tuesday 24 April                 3.00 – Bealtaine Ageing
Workshops €5 Book from           1.15 - Pop-Up Talk               Creatively Nolde Watercolour
9am, Tuesday 10 April only on                                     Workshop €5
www.nationalgallery.ie           Thursday 26 April                with Caomhán Mac Con
                                 6.30 - Tour                      Iomaire
Tuesday 17 April                 6.00 - Film Screening
1.15 - Pop-Up Talk               The Blue Angel                   Thursday 3 May
                                                                  6.20 - In Conversation Tour
Thursday 19 April                Saturday 28 April                Emil Nolde: Colour is Life
6.30 - Tour                      10.00-1:30 - Study Morning       with Art Historian Mary Dowling
6.30 - Special Lecture What      €20 Degenerates: Art in the      & Artist Eimear Murphy
Makes a Steinway Grand           Inter-War Years                  (Nolde Exhibition Ticket
Ulrich Gerhartz, Director        12.30 & 2.30 Tours               Required)
Concert & Artists Services,
Steinway & Sons London.          Sunday 29 April                  Friday 4 May
(Shaw Room)                      11.30-1.30 - Drop-in Family      12.30 - Lunchtime Piano
                                 Session                          Concert
Friday 20 April                  11.30 - Tour Art in Literature   Peter Regan, Shaw Room
12.30 - Lunchtime Piano          12.30 - Family Tour
Concert                          1.30 - Tour Art in Literature    Saturday 5 May
Billy O’Brien, Shaw Room         3.00 - In-conversation Event     12.30 & 2.30 - Tours
1.15 - Pop-Up Talk Emil Nolde:   Dublin: One City, One Book
Conflict & Ecstasy Mike Palmer   The Legacy of Maeve Brennan      Sunday 6 May
(Nolde Exhibition Ticket         with Sinéad Gleeson, Angela      11.30-1.30 - Drop-in Family
Required)                        Bourke and Aoife Barry.          Session
                                                                  11.30 - Tour
Saturday 21 April                                                 12.30 - Family Tour
12.30 & 2.30 - Tours                                              1.30 - Tour

For further information visit:
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May contd.
                                            Sunday 13 May                   Monday 21 May
                                            11.30-1.30 - Drop-in Family     12.00 & 2.00 - NGI Baby
                                            Session                         Workshops €5 Book from
                                            11.30 - Tour                    9am, Tuesday 15 May only on
                                            12.30 - Family Tour             www.nationalgallery.ie
                                            1.30 - Tour
                                            3.00 - Lecture The Making       Tuesday 22 May
                                            of the Tenement Museum on       1.15 - Pop-Up Talk
                                            Dublin’s Henrietta Street
                                            Charles Duggan, Dublin City     Wednesday 23 May
                                            Council                         3.00 – Bealtaine Ageing
                                                                            Creatively Emil Nolde: Colour is
                                            Monday 14 May                   Life Tour €5
                                            2.00 - New Parents’ Tour
                                                                            Thursday 24 May
                                                                            6.30 - Tour
                                            Tuesday 15 May
Rose Barton (1865-1929)
                                            1.15 - Pop-Up Talk              Saturday 26 May
Going to the Levée at Dublin Castle, 1897
                                                                            11.00-5.00 – Painting Course
Tuesday 8 May                                                               The Unpainted Paintings €170
11.00 - Talk and Tea €5                                                     with artist Michelle Boyle
Forgotten Dublin: Drawings                                                  12.30 & 2.30 – Tours
from the Collection with Anne
Hodge                                                                       Sunday 27 May
1.15 - Pop-Up Talk                                                          11.00-5.00 - Painting Course
                                                                            The Unpainted Paintings €170
Wednesday 9 May                             © Pimlico Project               with artist Michelle Boyle
3.00 – Bealtaine Ageing                     3.00 – Bealtaine Ageing         11.30-1.30 - Drop-in Family
Creatively: €5 Emil Nolde:                  Creatively Nolde Drawing        Session
Colour is Life Tour                         Workshop €5 with Sarah Ward     11.30 - Tour
                                                                            12.30 - Family Tour
Thursday 10 May                             Thursday 17 May                 1.30 - Tour
11.30 – Bealtaine Writers                   6.30 - Tour                     3.00 - Lecture ‘Full of
Group Open Session (all                                                     animated and interesting
                                            Saturday 19 May
welcome, meet NGI Atrium)                                                   pictures: Dublin, 1850-1920’
                                            National Drawing Day
6.30 - Tour                                                                 Dr Kathryn Milligan, UCD
                                            See www.nationalgallery.ie
Friday 11 May                               12.30 & 2.30 Tours              Tuesday 29 May
12.30 - Lunchtime Piano                                                     1.15 - Pop-Up Talk
                                            Sunday 20 May
Concert
                                            11.30-1.30 - Drop-in Family     Wednesday 30 May
Cahal Masterson, Shaw Room
                                            Session                         3.00 – Bealtaine Ageing
1.15 - Pop-Up Talk Emil
                                            11.30 - Tour                    Creatively €5 Nolde
Nolde: Travels 1913-1914
                                            12.30 - Family Tour             Watercolour Workshop with
Michelle MacDonagh (Nolde
                                            1.30 - Tour                     Caomhán Mac Con Iomaire
Exhibition Ticket Required)
                                            3.00 - RIAM Concert
Saturday 12 May                             Daniel Rowland                  Thursday 31 May
12.30 & 2.30 Tours                          € Tickets www.riam.ie           6.30 - Tour
                                            3.00 - Lecture James Malton’s
                                            Views of Dublin in Context      Gailearai Náisiúnta na hÉireann

                                            Dr Conor Lucey, UCD             Is de thoradh Achta Parlaiminte I 1854 a
                                                                            bunaíodh Gailearaí Náisiúnta na
                                                                            hÉireann; osclaíodh don phobal é sa
                                                                            bhliain 1864

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Booklet © NGI. All images are copyright of the National Gallery of Ireland unless otherwise credited. ISSN 0791-3892
Cover image:
Emil Nolde (1867-1956), Aboriginal man swimming, 1914, © Nolde Stiftung Seebüll
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