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National College Of Art And Design
The National College of Art and Design (NCAD) is Ireland's oldest art institution, offering the largest range of art and design degrees at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the country. Originating as a drawing school in 1746, many of the most important Irish artists, designers and art educators have studied or taught in the college. NCAD has always been located in central Dublin, and in 1980 it relocated to the historic Liberties area. The College has around 950 full-time students and a further 600 pursuing part-time courses, and NCAD's students come from more than forty countries. NCAD is a Recognised College of University College Dublin. It is also a member of the European League of Institutes of the Arts. History Overview The National College of Art and Design can trace its origins in an unbroken line back to the drawing school set up by Robert West in George's Lane, in 1746, and then sponsored by the Dublin Society. The institution has been influenced in turn by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 census of Ireland, 2016 census it had a population of 1,173,179, while the preliminary results of the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census recorded that County Dublin as a whole had a population of 1,450,701, and that the population of the Greater Dublin Area was over 2 million, or roughly 40% of the Republic of Ireland's total population. A settlement was established in the area by the Gaels during or before the 7th century, followed by the Vikings. As the Kings of Dublin, Kingdom of Dublin grew, it became Ireland's principal settlement by the 12th century Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest in the British Empire and sixt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Library Of Ireland
The National Library of Ireland (NLI; ga, Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann) is the Republic of Ireland's national library located in Dublin, in a building designed by Thomas Newenham Deane. The mission of the National Library of Ireland is 'To collect, preserve, promote and make accessible the documentary and intellectual record of the life of Ireland and to contribute to the provision of access to the larger universe of recorded knowledge.' The library is a reference library and, as such, does not lend. It has a large quantity of Irish and Irish-related material which can be consulted without charge; this includes books, maps, manuscripts, music, newspapers, periodicals and photographs. Included in their collections is material issued by private as well as government publishers. The Chief Herald of Ireland and National Photographic Archive are attached to the library. The library holds Art exhibition, exhibitions and holds an archive of List of Irish newspapers, Irish ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Rawson Carroll
James Rawson Carroll (1830 – November 30, 1911) was an Irish architect who was involved in many projects throughout Ireland during the Victorian Era. He was a founding partner of the Carroll & Batchelor architectural firm in 1892, alongside Frederick Batchelor. Life Born in Dublin in 1830, James was the youngest son of Thomas Carroll, of Leinster Street and Waterloo Road. He had four known siblings, three brothers - Thomas, Howard and Charles - and a sister whose name is unknown but was the mother of architect John Howard Pentland. He was educated in Delgany, County Wicklow and was admitted to the Royal Dublin Society's School of Drawing in Architecture in 1846. He was subsequently articled to George Fowler Jones of York, England and worked as his assistant until 1856. His brother Thomas built the stonework for Castle Oliver, County Limerick in 1850, which was designed by Jones. During his time in England Carroll also worked at the office of John Raphael Brandon. Carroll r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Byrne (artist, Born 1969)
Gerard Byrne (born 1969) is an Irish artist. He works primarily in film, video and photography in large-scale installations which reconstruct imagery found in magazine published in the 1970s through the 1980s. Education He is a graduate of the National College of Art & Design in Dublin, New School for Social Research in New York and a participant in the Whitney Whitney may refer to: Film and television * ''Whitney'' (2015 film), a Whitney Houston biopic starring Yaya DaCosta * ''Whitney'' (2018 film), a documentary about Whitney Houston * ''Whitney'' (TV series), an American sitcom that premiered i ... Independent Study Program in New York. Work Byrne's work utilizes lens-based media in carefully reconstructed images of “particular historically charged conversations originally published in popular magazines from the 1960s -1980s, with the intention of testing the cultural present of the gallery space against the present evoked in a magazine article from the recent past ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Buckley
Jenny Buckley (born 1979) is an Irish actress and television presenter, who is currently the main weather presenter on UTV Ireland, a position she has held since the channel's launch in January 2015. She also presents the channel's entertainment bulletin, ''The Pulse''. Career A native of Howth, Dublin, Buckley started acting on stage and screen, appearing in productions such as ''The Woman Who Walked into Doors'' and ''Tara Road''. She joined Channel 6 as a presenter in 2006, where her credits include hosting series such as ''Access Hollywood'' and ''Cois Farraige'', before going on to present for both TV3 and RTÉ. In 2010, she co-hosted RTÉ's travel show ''No Frontiers'', and has also appeared on ''Celebrity Apprentice Ireland''. In December 2014, and ahead of its launch, UTV Ireland announced it had signed Buckley as its main weather presenter. She joined the channel as it went on air in January 2015, and presents the weather forecast following UTV's evening news programme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Brewster
William Gordon Brewster (26 September 1889 – 16 June 1946) was an Irish illustrator and editorial cartoonist. Life Gordon Brewster was born at 15 D'Olier Street, Dublin, the son of William Theodore Brewster, secretary, and Susan McConnell. He was educated at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. He was the editorial cartoonist for the ''Irish Independent'' group of newspapers. He drew cartoons mainly on money matters for daily newspapers including the ''Evening Herald.'' Aside from Victor Brown in ''The'' ''Irish Press'', Brewster was one of the few satirical cartoonist in Irish newspapers until the 1970s. Brewster was one of the first artists to produce cover artwork for the Catholic Truth Society of Ireland. Three years after his death he was remembered as "the first good artist to serve the Society" after the "amateurish" contributions of earlier artists. His covers for the Society include ''The Saddest Death of All'' by Rev. J. J. Gaffney, ''A Dreadful Holocaust'' by M. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Berkery
Shane Keisuke Berkery (born 9 April 1992) is an Irish-Japanese contemporary artist based in Dublin, Ireland. His cultural background has been a major influence on his work and is a frequent theme in his paintings. Berkery primarily works out of his studio in Dublin. Life and career Berkery experienced controversy in 2015 when he submitted a nude of the college director for the graduation exhibition at National College of Art and Design in protest of how the college was being run. The painting was later withdrawn. In 2013, singer Sinead O' Connor commissioned Berkery to paint a mural of Hindu god Vishnu in her home in Bray, Ireland. O' Connor originally planned to use Berkery's image for the cover of her album in summer 2014, titled ''The Vishnu Room'' but the album was later retitled, without reference to Vishnu. Exhibitions *Solo exhibition 'Cave Paintings' at Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, Ireland - June 2021 *Solo Exhibition 'Figures' at Contra Galleries, New York, USA - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Museum Of Modern Art
The Irish Museum of Modern Art ( ga, Áras Nua-Ealaíne na hÉireann) also known as IMMA, is Ireland's leading national institution for the collection and presentation of modern and contemporary art. Located in Kilmainham, Dublin, the Museum presents a wide variety of art in a changing programme of exhibitions, which regularly includes bodies of work from its own collection and its education and community department. It also aims to create more widespread access to art and artists through its studio and national programmes. The Museum’s mission is to foster within society an awareness, understanding and involvement in the visual arts through policies and programmes which are excellent, innovative and inclusive. History Irish art collector Gordon Lambert met with Taoiseach Charles J Haughey and "told him if the State would establish a gallery he would donate his collection." The Irish Museum of Modern Art was established by the Government of Ireland in 1990. It was officially ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Declan McGonagle
Declan McGonagle is a well-known figure in Irish contemporary art, holding positions as director at the Orchard Gallery in Derry, the first director at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and as director of the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. He writes, lectures and publishes regularly on art and museum/gallery policy issues, and curates exhibitions. Early life McGonagle was born in Derry in 1953. He studied Fine Art at the College of Art and Design in Belfast. In the 70's and 80's he worked as a painter and a lecturer of Art and Design at the Regional Technical College, Letterkenny, County Donegal. Career Orchard Gallery Derry City Council was responsible for setting up the Orchard Gallery on Orchard Street in the city of Derry, McGonagle was appointed to the post of curator in 1978 and remained there until 1984 during the height of The Troubles. He gave up painting a year after he joined the Orchard. Orchard Gallery established itself on a minimal budget, and McGonag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Sheridan
Cecil Noel Sheridan (12 December 1936 – 12 July 2006) was an Irish painter, performance artist, installation artist and actor. He was a member of Aosdána, an elite Irish association of artists. Early life Sheridan was born in Dublin in 1936. His father was Cecil Brinsley Sheridan, a noted comic actor and panto dame at the Olympia Theatre, Dublin. Noel attended Synge Street CBS and worked for the ''Irish Independent''; he studied for a Bachelor of Communications at Trinity College at night, and began to perform with the Trinity Players. Career He was also an amateur artist, painting abstract landscapes, his work appearing from 1958 in the annual exhibitions of Living Art and at the Paris Biennale in 1960; he represented Ireland at the 1962 UNESCO Convention of young painters in Paris and won the Carroll Prize for Painting in 1965 and 1969. Sheridan worked as a gallery attendant in the Museum of Modern Art (New York), painting by night, and got a scholarship for Columbia Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonah Jones (sculptor)
Leonard Jones (17 February 1919 – 29 November 2004), generally known as Jonah Jones, was born in County Durham, north east England, but known as a Welsh sculptor, writer and artist-craftsman. He worked in many media, but is especially remembered as a sculptor in stone, lettering-artist and calligrapher. He was also Director of the National College of Art and Design in Dublin for four years. Upon leaving school in 1935 at the age of 16, Jones secured a post as assistant at the public library in Felling on Tyneside. The librarian, Mona Lovell, became a close friend and mentor to him, encouraging his cultural interests and introducing him to Quakerism (for a time he attended the Friends’ meeting in Newcastle-upon-Tyne). Life The eldest of four children, Jones was born in 1919 near Wardley, Gateshead. His father was a local man who had been a coalminer before being invalided in the First World War, his mother came from Yorkshire. Registering in the Second World War as a consci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
