The RSAI runs an annual programme of lectures, talks, outings and excursions to which Members and Guests are invited to partake. Places on all outings and excursions must be booked in advance but lectures and talks are open to all. Lectures and talks usually take place at 7.30pm in the Helen Roe theatre, which is in the basement of Society House, 63 Merrion Square, unless otherwise indicated. They are also live-streamed via ZOOM Webinars. RSAI Members receive their free registration links via e-newsletter, non-members may book via our Eventbrite page (tickets €5).
The subjects of lectures and talks span all areas of the Society’s remit, history, archaeology, art history, local and social history. Excursions include day-trips and three/four day expert led tours.
If you have any suggestions for potential lectures or talks please forward this information to the Hon. General Secretary Ms. Philippa E. Barry here for consideration by the Programme sub-committee.
Here are the details of upcoming events on the 2022 programme:
LECTURES
27 January 2022 Annual General Meeting
Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) and her Irish patrons and collectors: Robert and Dorothea Hellen
Dr Toby Barnard FBA, University of Oxford
24 February 2022
Colm Mháirtín Thomáis (1893-1975): An Irish Singer and his World
An tOllamh Ríonach uí Ógáin, UCD
24 March 2022 Annual Próinséas Ní Chatháin Memorial Lecture
Ársaitheoir Lochlannach: G.J. Thorkelin agus a chuairt ar Bhaile Átha Cliath, 1789
Dr Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, Aberystwyth University and the University of Copenhagen
28 April 2022
The Antiquaries, the Public Records and the Fire of 1922
Dr Peter Crooks, Beyond 2022 and TCD
26 May 2022 The Annual Helen Roe Memorial Lecture
Churches in the Irish Landscape, AD 400-1100
Dr Tomás Ó Carragáin, UCC
29 September 2022
Goddard Henry Orpen: Humanist, Scholar and Polymath
Dr Philip Bull, La Trobe University
27 October 2022 The Annual Frank Mitchell Memorial Lecture
The Irish passage tomb tradition: Building on the insights of Frank Mitchell
Dr Robert Hensey, Archaeologist
24 November 2022
Dublin’s first public housing schemes: choices and challenges
Dr Joseph Brady, UCD and Dr Ruth McManus, DCU
15 December 2022
Visualising the Past: the use of 3D technologies in the interpretation and conservation of cultural heritage
Dr Eimear Meegan, Virtual Building Lab, Dublin
TALKS:
7 February 2022
The most generous effort made to give us our history: the tasks of the Irish Manuscripts Commission
Prof. John McCafferty, Chair, Irish Manuscripts Commission and UCD
7 March 2022
Early medieval royalty to Gaelic nobility? Continuity and change at Caherconnell Cashel, Co. Clare
Dr Michelle Comber, NUIG
4 April 2022
Gender and Medieval Archaeology in Ireland: practices past and present
Dr Karen Dempsey, NUIG
9 May 2022
Idols and unclean things: a Late Iron Age idol from Gortnacrannagh, Co. Roscommon and its context
Dr Eve Campbell, Senior Archaeologist, Archaeological Management Solutions (AMS)
5 September 2022
Picking up the Pieces: The Moynagh Lough Excavation Project, Phase 3
Dr Michael Potterton, MU
10 October 2022
The role of ICOMOS in the conservation of cultural heritage
Dr Fidelma Mullane, President ICOMOS Ireland
7 November 2022
‘Our young Eriskay collector’: Donald MacDonald (Dòmhnall Èirisgeach, 1912-1989), The Irish Folklore Institute and fieldwork in the Southern Outer Hebrides.
Dr Tiber Falzett, UCD