The Irish Association of Art Historians maintains a programme of lectures, events, seminars and tours to significant sites in Ireland and abroad. The Committee aims to ensure a broad and varied programme. Many events are exclusive to the members, but a number are open to guests and non-members.
SUMMER PROGRAMME – [Newsletter 2012 Apr-Jun]
16 June – Historic Waterford – Summer Day Trip
30 May – Diego Francesco Carlone and Ticinese stucco a lecture by Professor Andrea Spiriti (University of Como/Varese) to celebrate the launch of Decorative plasterwork in Ireland & Europe: ornament and the early modern interior, Christine Casey & Conor Lucey (eds)
26 May – AGM Lecture – Embodying Memory: Performance and the Irish Oral Tradition in the Work of Alanna O’Kelly a lecture by Kate Antosik Parsons
[late] April – Annual Members’ Trip. ITALY – on the trail of late Medieval & Renaissance fresco cycles
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RECENT EVENTS
IAAH/Artefact Annual Study Day @ the Irish Museum of Modern Art
- Associations promoting art in the public sphere: new exhibiting spaces in the Enlightenment and Romanticism – a lecture by J. Pedro Lorente, University of Zaragoza
- UCD Art Collection in Belfield House & highlights of the UCD Sculpture Trail
- Limerick City Gallery of Art & highlights of the art collection of the University of Limerick
- Christmas Lecture & Party – ‘Vermeer & the lure of Dutch genre painting’ a lecture by Dr Adriaan Waiboer, Curator of Northern European Art, NGI
- ‘Tintoretto’s Susanna and the Elders: Just a bit of fun?’ a lecture by Dr Audrey Nicholls
- ‘Precious Things’, a lecture by Rudolf Heltzel, Goldsmith
- And now for something completely different…, a lecture by Professor Michael Ryan
- Liverpool Trip
- Sculpture in the Parklands: where nature and art meet 
- a tour with Kevin O’Dwyer, Director of Sculpture in the Parklands, of the 50-acre land and environmental sculpture park located in the wetlands of Lough Boora Parklands, Co. Offaly.
- The Highlanes Gallery – a tour of the permanent collection & the exhibition Utopia Ltd., part of the Drogheda Arts Festival.
- The Art Books of Henri Matisse, a tour by Dr Jill Unkel at the Chester Beatty Library.
- AGM & AGM Lecture, 21st Century Irish Craft by Dr Audrey Whitty, at the National Museum, Collins Barracks.
- The Moderns exhibition at IMMA – a tour.
- Liverpool: the art & architecture of the Grand Tour, a lecture by Dr Lynda Mulvin
- IAAH trip to Belgium
- Day trip to Castle Ward, Co Down
- IAAH/Artefact Annual Study Day at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
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