Barber, John, DL MRICS - Chair of IGS London , director of House Mill Trust , director of Newham Music , Deputy Lieutenant for Greater London for HM the King , founding liveryman of the Arts and Scholars Livery company and trustee of its charitable trust. Chief executive officer of L M Kendon Settlement .
Browne, Victoria - Member of City Assembly House Committee; previously board member of IGS; former Collections & Museum Standards, Irish Heritage Trust; former board member Castletown Foundation.
Coleman, Zoë - Graduate of University College Dublin (BA Arts)and University of Glasgow (MLitt). Her thesis ‘The representation of Ireland at long nineteenth-century exhibitions’ was subsequently adapted for publication in ‘Irish Architectural And Decorative Studies, Volume XVII’ (Dublin: Irish Georgian Society, 2015), pp. 136-157. Chair of the Young Irish Georgians since 2016, and worked for the Society from 2015 to 2020 as Programmes and Communications Coordinator. An alum of the Attingham Summer School (2018). Currently Programme Manager at the Royal Irish Academy. Joined the Board of the Irish Georgian Foundation in September 2023.
Earley, William - William graduated from University College Dublin (BA Economics & Politics) in 1970 and was admitted as a solicitor in Ireland in 1973. He practised as a solicitor in the field of company and commercial law in Dublin for nearly 40 years, 32 of them as a partner in McCann FitzGerald. He served as Managing Partner of the firm from 1993 to 1997. William now concentrates on serving as director or in other advisory roles in the voluntary sector. He graduated after retirement from Trinity College Dublin with an M.Phil. in the History of Irish Art and Architecture.
Finucane, Geraldine - Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland. Group Secretary with CIE and until recently also Company Secretary of Irish Rail. Called to the Bar in 1998 having completed a Diploma in Legal Studies in 1996 and been awarded the degree of Barrister-at-Law by the King’s Inns in 1998. Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Hall, Jacqueline - Chair of The Irish Georgian Foundation. Jacqueline Hall is the Principal of Partners in Communication, a consultancy specialising in Government Affairs and Stakeholder Engagement. She is Chair of the Irish Georgian Foundation and a lay Member of the Board of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. She has previously served as a member of the Board of Governors and Guardians of the National Gallery of Ireland and as President of the Public Relations Institute of Ireland. She has served on the board of Irish Water and Ervia and the Council of Dublin Chamber of Commerce. She has a BA (Hons) in History & History of Art, (UCD), a Graduateship in Marketing Management (TUD), a Graduate Diploma in Corporate Governance (UCD), an Advanced Diploma in Data Protection Law/GDPR (Honorable Society of King’s Inns), and a Graduate Diploma in Conflict & Dispute Resolution (TCD).
Harris, Marianne - Retired financial services professional with over forty years in operations and leadership roles within the Irish Banking and Financial Services sector. Fellow of the Institute of Bankers, an IMI graduate, holding the Institute of Director’s Certificate and a Diploma in Financial Services Management. Former Plato mentor, has served as a Board Member with Cork Chamber of Commerce and with a wide variety of local and regional, commercial, sporting and not-for-profit organisations.
Hill, Dr. Judith - Architectural historian and built heritage consultant. Publications include Limerick, The building of Limerick (1991), Irish Public Sculpture: A History (1998), and Lady Gregory: An Irish Life (2005), and has also contributed widely to other publications including Irish Architectural & Decorative Studies, the Journal of the Irish Georgian Society and the Irish Arts Review. Holds a BA in the History of Art (Girton College, Cambridge), a diploma in architecture (Oxford Brooks University), and a PhD in Architectural History (TCD).
Lucey, Dr. Conor - Architectural and design historian; Associate
Professor in the School of Art History and Cultural Policy, University College Dublin. Publications include: Building Reputations: Architecture and the Artisan, 1750-1830 (Manchester University Press, 2018) which received the prestigious Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, House and Home in Georgian Ireland - Spaces and Cultures of Domestic Life (Four Courts Press, 2022), The Stapleton Collection (Churchill House Press, 2007).
McLoughlin, Richard - RIAI Grade 1 accredited conservation architect. Graduate of UCD school of architecture and the Technical University Berlin, has worked in Berlin, London and Chicago and been involved in the conservation of historic buildings for 30 years. Joint director of Lotts Architecture & Urbanism since 2007.
Murray, Pat - Building management consultant. Member of the IGS Membership Events Committee, the City Assembly House & Exhibition Committee, and the IGS Membership Development WG. Previously served on the IGF board from 2011-2017 and currently sits on the board of the Castletown Foundation.
Murray, Peter, B.A., M. Litt, Ph.D. (hc) - Artist and art historian, former director, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (retired 2017); co-editor Vol V, Art and Architecture of Ireland (RIA 2014); honorary doctorate UCC 2019; longtime contributor to Irish Arts Review and other publications, member IGS City Assembly House Exhibition Committee 2018 to present.
Sheridan, Charlotte - Registered architect and town planner specialising in urban regeneration, housing, sustainable communities and collaborative planning in towns and cities in Ireland, with past experience in London and Berlin. She served as president of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland (2022/23) and is a member of the Irish Planning Institute (IPI), with over 20 years’ professional experience as a director of Sheridan Woods, an architecture and urban planning practice. She is a member of the IGS Architectural Conservation & Planning Committee.
Stanley, Bruce - Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland, an AITI Chartered Tax Advisor, and member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. Specialises in corporate structuring and personal tax planning for entrepreneurs and owner-managed businesses. Serves as a board member of the Irish National Opera and Rough Magic and is a former Chairperson of Graphic Studio Dublin.
Sullivan, John - Former Chairman of Gerli & Co.,Inc., a vertically integrated textile manufacturing company. Chair of Irish Georgian Society, Inc. (USA) and board member of the American Friends of the National Gallery of Ireland. Avid horseman with strong connections to Ireland and Boyne Hill Stud in Navan, Co. Meath, which was owned by his family.
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Michael Wall, President Irish Georgian Society
Barrister, qualified architect and planner. Former Chair of the Irish Georgian Foundation and former board member An Bord Pleanála. Board member National Asset Management Agency, Transport Infrastructure Ireland and Chair of NAMA Planning Advisory Committee. Trustee of Simpson's Hospital. Former board member Abbey Theatre, Irish National Opera and Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland. Former council member Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland.
Randal McDonnell, 10th Earl of Antrim, Vice-President Irish Georgian Society
Chair of the London subsidiary of Sarrasin & Partners with which he has worked since 1997. Assumed charge of the family estate, Glenarm Castle, in 1992 where he introduced agricultural and hydroelectric programmes and, together with Lady Antrim and a dedicated team, greatly enhanced its gardens which are open to the public. Also partnered with the Irish Landmark Trust in the restoration of the Castle’s Barbican Gatelodge for short term holiday lets. In December 2013, Lord Antrim was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for County Antrim.
Sir David Davies, President Emeritus Irish Georgian Society
A banker by profession, Sir David started his business career in 1963 with Chase Manhattan Bank in New York, and then with Hill Samuel, the leading English merchant bank in New York and then London. In 1973 he became Finance Director of MEPC. He moved to Hong Kong in 1983, becoming a director of Jardine Matheson and managing director of Hong Kong Land and returned to London in the late 1980s where he became chief executive of Hill Samuel. In the 1990s he served both as Chairman and Chief Executive of Johnson Matthey and was subsequently appointed as Chairman of EFG Private Bank Ltd in London from 1999 to 2006. He was awarded the Knights Bachelor in the 1999 New Year’s Honours List. From 1995 to 2019 he lived in Abbey Leix House, Co. Laois, which he carefully and judiciously conserved and restored. He recently refurbished his family home at Killoughter in Co. Wicklow where he now resides.
Donough Cahill, Executive Director
Oversees the strategic and day-to-day operations of the IGS and works with the Irish Georgian Foundation’s Committee of Management, its standing committees and working groups and with the Society’s North America and UK based membership in this regard.