Nov
04
11:00
‘Finding the DNA of an Architectural Design’
Yvonne Farrell, Founding Partner Grafton Architects
- 📅Monday, November 4, 2024
- 🕥11:00 - 12:00
- 🏟Royal St. George Yacht Club (map)
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara started Grafton Architects 46 years ago in a studio on Grafton Street by. It began with their contribution to the fabric of Dublin.
Today, the firm has a global footprint and a portfolio of widely acclaimed prestigious buildings across the world characterized by Genius Loci – the unique spirit of place; the inherent tension between sky and ground and the ethical obligation that a building ought to respond to its context.
Yvonne and Shelley were awarded the Pritzker Prize 2020, considered the highest accolade in architecture
They are also laureates of the Royal Institute of British Architects Royal Gold Medal 2020; the Gandon Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Architecture as well as the RIAI Gold Medal for Bocconi University Milan in 2019. Their Milan project was also awarded World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival.
Yvonne and Shelley acted as curators for the Venice Biennale 2018, the largest architecture festival in the world
Both are professors in the Accademia d’Archittura, Mendrisio Switzerland, an academy recognized for its indisputable excellence that seeks to significantly influence the architecture of the future. They previously held the Kenzo Tange Chair at Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Louis Kahn at Yale University.
Grafton Architects is located at the junction of College Green and Trinity Street in a classical building erected between 1899 and 1901.
Nov
11
11:00
'The Artist Citizen: A Revolution of the Heart within the Arts'
Professor Deborah Kelleher, Director Royal Irish Academy of Music
- 📅Monday, November 11, 2024
- 🕥11:00 - 12:00
- 🏟Royal St. George Yacht Club (map)
Deborah was appointed Director of the RIAM in October 2010 and has played an integral role in the development of the institution’s profile, outreach, estate, and academic courses.
The RIAM has been an associate college of Trinity College since 2013 and the number of students entering RIAM’s third-level programmes has tripled.
Deborah has overseen a significant increase in professional development courses for private music teachers throughout Ireland and internationally who enter over 35,000 students for RIAM Examinations.
The RIAM reopened its transformed campus on Westland Row involving an investment of €27 million., an initiative that was underway during the tenure of Dennis Jennings as Chairman of RIAM (2017-2022).
Nov
18
11:00
Well, Holy God - Life as an Irish, Catholic Agnostic Correspondent’
Patsy McGarry, Religious Affairs Correspondent, The Irish Times
- 📅Monday, November 18, 2024
- 🕥11:00 - 12:00
- 🏟Royal St. George Yacht Club (map)
Patsy has been the faithful and trusted ‘eyes and ears’ of Irish society throughout a prolonged era of great trauma and recurring scandal in religious affairs in Ireland and elsewhere.
The authoritarian rigorous culture of Catholic Ireland was not allowed to become detached from the dark days of history as the underlying painful truth was exposed in forensic State reports and insightful and skilled media narrative. We consequently did not turn our back on the past.
Patsy is the author of:
‘Well, Holy God: My Life as an Irish Catholic Agnostic’ (2024)
‘Christianity, While Justice Slept: The True Story of Nicky Kelly and the Sallins Train Robbery’ (2006)
First Citizen: Mary McAleese and the Irish Presidency’ (2008)
Nov
25
11:00
‘Postscript to US Elections - the international political landscape’
Lawrence (Larry) Donnelly Law Lecturer, University of Galway Author ‘The Bostonian’
- 📅Monday, November 25, 2024
- 🕥11:00 - 12:00
- 🏟Royal St. George Yacht Club (map)
Larry Donnelly, a native of Boston with US and Irish citizenship, teaches legal skills modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level at University of Galway and is Director of the School of Law’s Clinical Legal Education Programme.
Steeped in Massachusetts politics, Larry is nephew of the late Brian J Donnelly (1946-2023), a Democratic member of the US House of Representatives from 1979 to 1993.
One of Brian Donnelly’s signature accomplishments was the ‘Donnelly Visa Program’, the original beneficiaries of which were Irish persons in the US.
Nowadays, this Program authorizes 50,000 visas annually to nationals of countries statistically deemed under-represented in the current immigrations system.
Congressman Donnelly represented the now defunct 11th Congressional District of Massachusetts. The 11th District had been represented previously been by Speaker T P O’Neill (1912-1994) John F Kennedy (1917-1963), 35th President; Congressman James Michael Curley (1874-1958) four-term Mayor of Boston and 55th Governor of Massachusetts and John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), 6th President and vocal opponent of slavery.
Larry is married to former RTÉ newsreader Eileen Whelan. They reside in Wicklow where Larry can conveniently indulge his great passion for golf.