Lectures 2010

Please note lectures are held at 7.30 in the Helen Roe Lecture Theatre. The Helen Roe Theatre is located in the basement of 63 Merrion Square. Entrance at street level through gateway.

26 June 2010
title to be announced
(during Summer Excursion)

30 September 2010
Dublin’s Dead Zoo: Museum of a Museum
Nigel Monaghan
Director, Natural History Museum

28 October 2010 - Frank Mitchell Memorial Lecture
Prehistoric Preseli and the Stonehenge Connection
Professor Geoffrey Wainwright,
President, Society of Antiquaries of London

25 November 2010
In the midst of death there is life: A social history of the Irish churchyard
Siobhan de hÓir, Hon. Life Fellow

16 December 2010 - Statutory Meeting
A Glittering Prize: The Anglo-Saxon Hoard from Staffordshire
Susan Youngs, Member and Professor Elizabeth Okasha UCC

Past lectures 2010

28 January 2010 Annual General Meeting
Rothe House, Kilkenny and the archaeology of early Irish modern town gardens
Cóilín Ó Drisceoil, Archaeologist, Member

25 February 2010
The Albert Bender Collection of Asian Art in the National Museum of Ireland and his cultural interests in Ireland and California
Dr Audrey Whitty, Curator of Asian Collections
National Museum of Ireland

25 March 2010
The intellectual life and world view of the Ó Neachtain circle in early eighteenth-century Dublin: Gaelic, urban and urbane
Prof. Liam Mac Mathúna
Head of UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics, Member


29 April 2010
Centennial Increments: on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the publication in the RSAI Journal of an article by Captain Nevile Wilkinson, Ulster King of Arms
Katy Lumsden, Office of the Chief Herald of Ireland

27 May 2010 - Helen Roe Memorial Lecture
Thoughts on European sources for the art of the Book of Kells:
Dr Dorothy Kelly, UCD, Member