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An extensive programme
of events; day trips, concerts, specialised talks and an annual
trip abroad
- Private Previews of
Gallery Exhibitions
- Quarterly Friends
Events Guide
- 10% discount in the
Gallery Shop
- Friends Weekly Gallery
Tours
Contact
The Friends Office, telephone (01) 661 9877, or email friends@ngi.ie.
Application forms available at the Gallery Information Desks.
Lectures
In April, Professor John Dillon will give a lecture on The
Glory that was Greece.
A talk by Professor George
Eogan will explore the Passage Tombs at Brugh na Bóinne,
Boyne Valley.
In May, Dr. Luca Crispi will give a talk on Joyce's Dubliners
for Dubliners.
Exhibition Event
On Saturday 29 May (10.30am Lecture Theatre), Adrian Le Harivel,
Curator of British Paintings and co-ordinator of the current exhibition,
will give a talk on The Importance of Acquisitions.
Outings
Members will attend the 14th Gathering of the Friends of Museums
& Galleries in Ireland (25-28 March), hosted by the Hunt
Museum, Limerick. A visit to Lisnavagh House in Co. Carlow
will take place in May.
Spring Trip to Greece
In May, Friends will spend ten days exploring the great treasures
of Greece. Three days will be spent in Athens with visits
to the Acropolis, the Agora, the Tower of the Winds and the Temple
of Olympain Zeus. Highlights
will include the New Acropolis Museum, the National Archaeological
Museum, the Benaki Museum and the National Gallery of Art.
A journey through central
Greece will take in Ancient Delphi, site of the oracle of
Apollo, the Byzantine Monastery of Osios Loúkas, followed
by a trip across the Peloponnese to embrace some of the most
evocative places from ancient Greece, Olympia, Mycenae, Epidauros
and Náfplio,
the first capital of liberated Greece showing architectural evidence
of Venetian and Ottoman occupation.
Full details of Members
programme will appear in the Friends Spring Events Guide.
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