RIAI CPD Links: Depicting Dublin

The Irish Georgian Society, in partnership with Dublin City Council's Heritage Office, presents a series of thematic talks which will explore the Dublin's architecture, urban morphology and social history through the examination of early maps, prints, drawings and photographs.

Depicting Dublin is a series of ten Tuesday evening talks which will provide an understanding of Dublin’s architecture and urban morphology through the examination of early historic maps, prints, drawings and photographs.

Programme

Tuesday 1 October: Maps and the story of Dublin by Dr Joseph Brady, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Geography, UCD and co-author of Dublin: Mapping the City (2023)

Tuesday 8 October: From Speed to Rocque: mapping early modern Dublin, 1610-1756 by Colm Lennon, MRIA, Professor Emeritus, History Department, Maynooth University, and author of the RIA Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Dublin, part II, 1610 to 1756 (2009) and the RIA Dublin 1610 to 1756: the making of the early modern city (2009)

Tuesday 15 October: Malton’s Dublin Prints: picking through the details correct by Graham Hickey, CEO Dublin Civic Trust and co-author of Malton’s Views of Dublin: The Story of a Georgian City (2021)

Tuesday 22 October: Georgian Dublin in Maps by Rob Goodbody, historian and conservation consultant and editor of the third volume of Irish Historic Towns Atlas of Dublin, covering the period 1756 to 1847, published by the Royal Irish Academy in 2014.

Tuesday 5 November: Two Cities, Two Maps: John Rocque’s London and Dublin compared by Dr John Montague, Associate Professor of Architecture at the College of Architecture Art and Design, at the American University of Sharjah, and co-author of John Rocque’s Dublin: a guide to the Georgian City (2010).

Tuesday 12 November: Hugh Douglas Hamilton’s The Cries of Dublin (1760) Revisited by William Laffan, art dealer and editor.

Tuesday 19 November: Dublin in Ordnance Survey Maps by Paul Ferguson, Map Librarian, Trinity College Dublin.

Tuesday 26 November: City Views: Art, Architecture and Dublin's Painters by Dr Kathryn Milligan, art historian, author of Painting Dublin: Visualising a changing city, 1886 – 1949 (2021).

Tuesday 3 December: Finding Dublin in the photographic archive: an exploration of the city's Dublin’s architectural heritage through historic photographs by Dr Orla FitzPatrick, Research Fellow, Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute.

Tuesday 10 December: 19th century Bird’s Eye Views of Dublin: where Art and Mapping meet by Arran Henderson, Dublin Decoded tour guide.

Tickets

The Georgian Society is pleased to offer the talks in person and online through Zoom at both a whole course discounted rate and on an individual lecture basis.

• Whole course in person City Assembly House bookings cost is €120 (& the recordings available to watch for a 2-week period)
• Whole course virtual talks cost €90 (& the recordings is available to watch for a 2-week period)
• Individual virtual talks cost €12.50 each (& the recordings available to watch for a 2-week period)
• Individual in person talks cost €15 each (& the recording available to watch for a 2-week period)

Programme Learning Outcomes

Attendance at the talks will provide a better understanding and appreciation of Dublin’s built heritage and town planning through the medium of early historic maps, prints, drawings and photography. 

All talks are delivered by acknowledged authorities on the subject, many of whom are the authors of the Royal Irish Academy’s Irish Historic Towns Atlas. The knowledge gained will benefit architects working on both protected structures, buildings located within architectural conservation areas, as well as new builds within the city’s historic core.