Ireland
The Irish Georgian Society has active Chapters in Cork, Limerick, and Birr that organise membership events at a local level. Activities include talks on Ireland's architectural and decorative arts heritage as well as tours to private historic houses and gardens and to public buildings of note.
26/11/2008
Chairman John Joyce reports
On Midsummer’s Day this year as our contribution to the IGS 50th celebrations, the Birr Chapter had a Thes Dansant, in Tullisnisk, the home of Lord and Lady Rosse’s daughter, Alicia and her husband Nat Clements. Alas, they could not be with us in person to join in the celebrations due to another engagement, but they very kindly let us have free run of their beautiful home in their absence. It was a most pleasant afternoon, despi... Read more »
04/06/2009
See photos and read about recent and upcoming Cork Chapter events on the Chapter's blog: http://igscork.blogspot.com/2009/04/hi-all-im-experimenting-with-our-new.html
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11/02/2010
In 2008, to commemorate 50 years of the Irish Georgian Society, the Limerick Chapter of the Society together with Limerick City of Art commissioned four artists to take photographs of Georgian Limerick. This exhibition has now transferred to the Irish Architectural Archive, 45 Merrion Square, where it will run until the 26th March.
The idea behind the exhibition was to ask artists of very different temperament to photograph what is a planned Georgian new town, but which, despite i... Read more »