Benefits of Membership include:

• Members Rooms
• Quarterly Friends Events Guide
• Weekly Gallery Tours
• Extensive Programme of Events
• Day Trips & Specialised Talks
• Annual Trip Abroad
• Private Previews o
• Gallery Exhibitions
• 10% Discount in the Gallery Shop
  

Annual Membership Subscriptions
Individual €65
Concession €50
Family €80
Patron of Irish Art €450
Corporate member €650

Contact
The Friends Office, No.5 South Leinster Street, Dublin 2.
Access for members is via the Millennium Wing on Clare Street.
Tel: (01) 661 9877
Email: friends@ngi.ie.

Membership application forms are available from the Friends Desk in the Millennium Wing.

Weekly Gallery Tours
Tours of the collection for members will resume on Wednesday 22 September (12 noon) and on Friday 24 September (10.30am).

Day Outings
On Wednesday 22 September, Professor George Eogan will lead a tour of the passage tombs at Newgrange and Knowth. In November, Friends will visit Graphic Studio Dublin, where artists will give a printmaking demonstration followed by a guided tour of the exhibition Graphic Studio Dublin: 50 Years in Dublin, at IMMA.

Waterford Trip
Highlights of a five-day tour of Co. Waterford (6-10 September) will include visits to the city's museums, Lismore Castle and private houses along the Blackwater.

Talks
On Tuesday 19 October, Anthony Cronin will read from his new collection of poetry The Fall. On Tuesday 9 November, Turtle Bunbury will give a talk, Around the World in 1847: events across the globe in which people of Ireland were influential. On 23 November, Joe McFadden will give an illustrated talk on The Glens of Antrim: a haven for artists.

Opera Trip
A three-day visit to the Wexford Festival Opera
(26-28 October) will include attendance at two operas: The Golden Ticket and Hubicka; two lunchtime recitals and a short opera.

Exhibition Event
On Saturday 6 November, (10.30am, Lecture Theatre) Dr Adriaan Waiboer, curator of Northern European Art, will give a talk on Gabriel Metsu: Rediscovered Master of the Dutch Golden Age, followed by a tour of the exhibition, and lunch.

Full details of Members programme will appear in the Friends Autumn Events Guide.