All events are free unless otherwise indicated. Tours are given by a panel of freelance art historians.
Tickets for Art Studies, Drawing Studies, Study Day, and Study Mornings are available from the Gallery Shop.
See calendar for details. A screening of the documentary The Private Life of an Easter Masterpiece: The Taking of Christ will be shown each Saturday at 1pm in the Audio Visual Room.

MARCH
ACQUISITIONS 2000-2010

MONDAY
10.00-4.00 Advanced Drawing Studies with Sahoko Blake

TUESDAY
10.00-4.00 Advanced Drawing Studies with Sahoko Blake

10.30 Jack Yeats and the People and Landscape of the Iveragh Peninsula
Lecturer Donal Maguire, National Gallery of Ireland

WEDNESDAY
10.00-4.00 Advanced Drawing Studies with Sahoko Blake

10.00-5.00 Research Day

THURSDAY
10.00-4.00 Advanced Drawing Studies with Sahoko Blake

6.30 Art Studies The Influence of Andy Warhol and Pop Art
Lecturer Dr Éimear O'Connor, Trinity College Dublin

6.30 Hard of Hearing Tour

FRIDAY
10.00-4.00 Advanced Drawing Studies with Sahoko Blake

SATURDAY
2.00 Tour Highlights of the French Collection

3.00 Family Programme Great Oaks from Little Acorns Grow with Sinead McGeeney

SUNDAY
12.15-2.15 Drawing Studies

1.00, 2.00 Gallery Tours

3.00 1913 Lockout: Visual Records and Contemporary Visual Responses
Lecturer Helen Carey, Independent Curator

TUESDAY
10.30 The Western Images of James Fitzgerald (1899-1971)
Lecturer Dr James Cunningham, Donegal Regional Cultural Centre

WEDNESDAY
3.00 Art For All Ages Tour The Two Marys; Virtue or Vice with Audrey Nicholls
Meet in Room 15

THURSDAY
6.30 Art Studies Modern and Contemporary Irish Art
Lecturer Catherine Marshall, Art Historian, Writer

SATURDAY
2.00 Tour Highlights of the Irish Collection

3.00 Family Programme Our Feathered Friends with Mary Noonan

SUNDAY
12.15-2.15 Drawing Studies

1.00, 2.00 Gallery Tours

3.00 Collecting for Pleasure and Enlightenment
Lecturer James O'Halloran, Auctioneer

TUESDAY
10.30 An Image of St. Patrick among the Recent Acquisition Highlights
Lecturer Anne Hodge, National Gallery of Ireland

WEDNESDAY
3.00 St. Patrick's Day Tour/Turas Lá Fhéile Pádraig

THURSDAY
6.30 Art Studies 20th Century Masters: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud
Lecturer Dr Margarita Cappock, University College Dublin

SATURDAY
2.00 Exhibition Tour Taking Stock: Acquisitions 2000-2010

3.00 Family Programme Wonders in Frames with Aoife Dwyer

SUNDAY
1.00, 2.00 Gallery Tours

3.00 Great Acquisition: Cuyp's 'Landscape with a Portrait of a Youth and his Tutor on Horseback'
Lecturer Dr Adriaan Waiboer, National Gallery
of Ireland

TUESDAY
10.30 Special Exhibition Talk Collecting for the Nation
Lecturer Raymond Keaveney, Director, National Gallery of Ireland

WEDNESDAY
3.00 New Parents Tour

THURSDAY
6.30 Art Studies The Artist Donald Teskey in his own Words
Lecturer Donald Teskey, Artist, Keeper, Royal Hibernian Academy

6.30 Tour for Blind and Visually Impaired
(Pre-booking essential, bcasey@ngi.ie /
(01)-663 3506)

6.30 Teachers Tour Taking Stock: Acquisitions 2000-2010
Pre-booking essential hmonaghan@ngi.ie/
(01) 663 3509

SATURDAY
9.50-4.30 Study Day Pioneering Women Artists
Tickets €40/€20 Students (inc. coffee breaks)

2.00 Tour Highlights of the Collection

3.00 Family Programme A visit to 'The Village School' with Siobhan Feeney

SUNDAY
1.00, 2.00 Gallery Tours

3.00 Modernist Trends in Recent Acquisitions
Lecturer Dr Hilary Pyle, writer, biographer, and art historian

TUESDAY
10.30 Recent Acquisition of works by Jack B. Yeats
Lecturer Dr Róisín Kennedy, University College Dublin

WEDNESDAY
10.30 Leaving Certificate Art History Study Day
Free admission but pre-booking essential, hmonaghan@ngi.ie / (01) 663 3509

THURSDAY
6.30 Irish Sign Language Tour

SATURDAY
2.00 Tour Seasonal Images

3.00 Family Programme Spring Chickens with Niamh Denham

SUNDAY
1.00, 2.00 Gallery Tours

3.00 Choice Acquisitions from the Last Decade
Lecturer Adrian Le Harivel, National Gallery of Ireland

MONDAY
3.00 Supervised Family Time - Atrium Workspace

TUESDAY
10.30 A Conservation tour of the Acquisitions Exhibition - Meet in the Lecture Theatre
Lecturers Ele von Monschaw and Niamh McGuinne, National Gallery of Ireland

3.00 Supervised Family Time - Atrium Workspace

WEDNESDAY
3.00 Supervised Family Time - Atrium Workspace

THURSDAY
3.00 Supervised Family Time - Atrium Workspace

FRIDAY
3.00 Supervised Family Time - Atrium Workspace

SATURDAY
2.00 Tour The Renaissance

3.00 Family Programme A Palette of Colour! with Beth O'Halloran

SUNDAY
1.00, 2.00 Gallery Tours

3.00 Recent Acquisition: Louis Le Brocquy
'A Family',1951
Lecturer Dr Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch, Writer and Art Historian

TUESDAY
10.30 Collecting and Taste - The Pleasure in Forming a Collection
Lecturer Ian Whyte, Auctioneer

WEDNESDAY
3.00 Art For All Ages Portrait Drawing Workshop with Jane Bowe, Atrium

SATURDAY
11.00-1.00 The Drawn Figure and Portrait Drawing class with James Hanley RHA, Room 21 (Portrait Gallery)

2.00 Exhibition Tour Taking Stock: Acquisitions 2000-2010

3.00 Family Programme Eastern Promises with Mary Broderick

SUNDAY
1.00, 2.00 Gallery Tours

3.00 Pioneering Artist: Mary Swanzy
'Self-Portrait with a Candle'
Lecturer Patrick Murphy, Lecturer

TUESDAY
10.30 Walter Osborne, ''The Dublin Streets;
a Vendor of Books'
Lecturer Dr Brendan Rooney, National Gallery of Ireland

WEDNESDAY
3.00 New Parents Tour

THURSDAY
6.30 Teachers Tour Looking at Still Life
Pre-booking essential, hmonaghan@ngi.ie/
(01) 663 3509

SATURDAY
11.00-1.00 Figure and Life Drawing class with James Hanley RHA, Room 1

9.50-4.30 Study Morning Still Life Painting Revealed
Tickets €25/€15 Students (inc. coffee and 3pm tour of the still life collection)

2.00 Tour Highlights of the Collection

3.00 Family Programme 'Let's Crawl to the Ugly Bug's Ball!' with Caroline Donohue

SUNDAY
1.00, 2.00 Gallery Tours

3.00 One City, One Book: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde
Lecturer Dr Jarlath Kileen, Trinity College Dublin

TUESDAY
10.30 New Acquisitions: Impressionist and Expressionist Paintings
Lecturer Janet McLean, National Gallery of Ireland

SATURDAY
2.00 Tour Highlights of the Collection

3.00 Family Programme Afloat in a Boat! with Lynn McGrane

SUNDAY
1.00, 2.00 Gallery Tours

3.00 Printmaking in Ireland and Some Recent Prints at the National Gallery
Lecturer Dr Angela Griffith, Trinity College Dublin

MONDAY
3.00 Bank Holiday Family Time - Atrium Workspace

TUESDAY
10.30 Showcasing Highlights of the Library and Archive Collections
Lecturer Andrea Lydon, National Gallery of Ireland

THURSDAY
6.30 Hard of Hearing Tour

SATURDAY
2.00 Tour Highlights of the Spanish Collection

3.00 Family Programme Mammals of the Deep Blue Sea with Melissa Corish

SUNDAY
12.15-2.15 Drawing Studies

1.00, 2.00 Gallery Tours

3.00 Focusing on Some New Irish Acquisitions
Lecturer Donal Maguire, National Gallery of Ireland

TUESDAY
10.30 So What's So Great About Drawings?
Lecturer Anne Hodge, National Gallery of Ireland

WEDNESDAY
3.00 Art For All Ages Special Tour: New Acquisitions with Valerie Moffat, Meet in Atrium

SATURDAY
Conference: Passions and Possibilities, Lecture Theatre
See www.childrensbooksireland.ie for details.

2.00 Exhibition Tour Taking Stock: Acquisitions 2000-2010

3.00 Family Programme Sugar Plum Fairies with Rachel O'Dwyer

SUNDAY
12.15-2.15 Drawing Studies

1.00, 2.00 Gallery Tours

3.00 The Art of Children's Picture Books
Lecturer Anthony Browne, Author and Illustrator

TUESDAY
10.30 Acquisitions Associated with the West of Ireland
Lecturer Dr Marie Bourke, National Gallery of Ireland

WEDNESDAY
3.00 New Parents Tour

SATURDAY
2.00 Tour Drawings in the Collection

3.00 Gallery Drawing Day 10.30-4.30
Launch by Samuel Walsh

SUNDAY
12.15-2.15 Drawing Studies

1.00, 2.00 Gallery Tours

3.00 Drawings and other Highlights at the Hunt Museum
Lecturer Dr Hugh Maguire, Director, The Hunt Museum

TUESDAY
10.30 The Model Reveals Fresh Drawings and Paintings
Lecturer Séamus Kealy, Director, The Model,
Arts Centre and Gallery, Sligo

THURSDAY
6.30 Tour for Blind and Visually Impaired
Pre-booking essential, bcasey@ngi.ie /
(01) 663 3506

SATURDAY
2.00 Tour Twentieth Century Irish Art

3.00 Family Programme Find the Lute in
'A Musical Party' with Edel Campbell

SUNDAY
12.15-2.15 Drawing Studies

1.00, 2.00 Gallery Tours

3.00 Drawings and Conservation Projects at the Glucksman Gallery
Lecturer Fiona Kearney, Director, The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork

Easter Holiday Arrangements
Visitors are advised that the National Gallery
of Ireland will close at 5.30pm on Thursday
1 April (Holy Thursday) and will be closed
all day Friday 2 April (Good Friday).
Visit www.nationalgallery.ie
or telephone (01) 661 5133.

Special Gift Ideas
A Personal Tour of the Gallery
Have you thought of giving a member of your family or a friend a gift of a personal tour of the National Gallery of Ireland?
This special gift gives the recipient the opportunity to view the treasures of the National Gallery of Ireland in the company of our expert guides (price: €50.00).
Contact The Gallery Shop, National Gallery of Ireland, email bookshop@ngi.ie or telephone (01) 663 3518.

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