Capping Kilbixy - Series of Lectures

This series of lectures has been arranged to celebrate the bi-centenary of the death of Edmond Malone, the Shakespearean scholar, who lies buried in the Malone mausoleum in Kilbixy churchyard.

 

CAPPING KILBIXY

 

This series of lectures has been arranged to celebrate the he bi-centenary of the death of Edmond Malone, the Shakespearean scholar, who lies buried in the Malone mausoleum in Kilbixy churchyard. The proceeds will go towards re-roofing the church which was built by his elder brother, Richard, Lord Sunderlin, to a design by James Wyatt.

Thursday 10 June: Alistair Rowan  on The Gothic Revival in Ireland: A Context for Kilbixy

Alistair Rowan, a formerProfessor of the History of Art in University College Dublin, University College Cork and a past Principal of the Edinburgh College of Art, has spent his life as an active architectural historian. For many years he was an architectural correspondent for Country Life and has also contributed two volumes - North West Ulster and North Leinster - to the Yale University Press series of architectural Guides, the Buildings of Ireland. He wrote his doctoral thesis on the imitation castles built throughout the Georgian Age which provide the aesthetic and intellectual background from which the commission for an early Gothic Revival church such as Kilbixy derives.

 

Thursday 15 July: Ruth Illingworth on The Malones

Ruth Illingworth is current fist citizen of Mullingar; well published author and renowned historian, will bring her unique comentary to bear on The Malones.

Thursday 26th August: Ciaran MacGonigal on Joshua Reynolds Portraits of the Malones.

Ciaran Macgonigal a critic and art historian is currently writing a History of 20th Century Irish Art; formerly director of the RHA Gallagher Dublin; the Hunt Museum Limerick; formerly member of the Arts Council, Board of the National Gallery of Ireland; NCAD and many other bodies. He is from a family associated with the Arts over several generations in Ireland. He lives in Co. Longford.

September: Thursday 9th September Toby Barnard

Toby Barnard is a fellow in history at Hertford College, University of Oxford. He is a fellow of the British Academy and an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy.  

 Thursday 21 October: Hanne Gray on The Vikings

Hanne Gray was born and educated in Denmark, educated at the Universita per Stranieri in Perugia, at Copenhagen University and at the Open University, London.

In her early career she worked at the State Collection of Photographic Art in Copenhagen and later for the Arts Council of Great Britain as a Supervisor in their

Publication Department. She has regularly lectured on Scandinavian Art historical topics for the Adult Education and University of Surrey, as well as for the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin and the National Trust for Ireland. Her lectures on Nordic painters include in-depth studies on Edvard Munch, Carl Larsson, Christen Kobke, L.A. Ring and Vilhelm Hammershoi.

 

The following have also kindly agreed to talk:

Thomas Pakenham on Trees in Churchyards

Rachel Ward on Islamic Gardens

Roger Bowdler on Mausolea

Michael McCaffery on 18th Century arrangements of Shakespeares Songs

Richard Hewlings on The Originality of James Hoban

 

The lectures will take place at Belvedere House at 8pm.

Tickets of €10 can be obtained from Belvedere House