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Apr

09

10:30

The Beatles

William Hennigan

  • 📅Tuesday, April 9, 2024
  • 🕥10:30 - 12:30
  • 🏟Newtownpark Pastoral Centre (map)

This talk will cover the Beatles journey from their youth to the final days of the band. Along the way I will play excerpts from songs that were influential in their lives as Beatles.

William is a retired Chartered Accountant having worked much of his life in financial services. He has lots of interests including choral singing, piano, golf, walking and reading. He has had a lifelong interest in the music of the Beatles.


Apr

16

10:30

My Scientific Journey from Basic Research to Clinical Trials for Parkinson’s Disease and Heart Disea

Luke O'Neill

  • 📅Tuesday, April 16, 2024
  • 🕥10:30 - 12:30
  • 🏟Newtownpark Pastoral Centre (map)

Luke O’Neill holds the Chair of Biochemistry in Trinity College Dublin. He is an immunologist, who has published prolifically in many scientific journals and has received numerous awards for his research. He has also founded companies which are developing new anti-inflammatory medicines.

A regular contributor to radio and television programmes, he is well known for his enthusiasm and for making science interesting and accessible to lay people. He was a beacon of hope to many of us during the recent Covid pandemic. He has also published a number of best selling popular science books. Be prepared for an entertaining talk on his scientific career.


Apr

30

10:30

Seizo Sugawara, Eileen Gray’s enduring collaborator

Ruth Starr

  • 📅Tuesday, April 30, 2024
  • 🕥10:30 - 12:30
  • 🏟Newtownpark Pastoral Centre (map)

This presentation will consider the influence of the Japanese sculptor and lacquer specialist, Seizo Sugawara (1884 – 1937) on Eileen Gray (1878 – 1976) in the context of the pervasiveness of Japonisme. Gray is best known for her pioneering work in early modernist architecture. Less well known is her acclaimed earlier career as a lacquer furniture designer. The presentation reveals Gray’s fine appreciation of the unique characteristics of Japanese lacquer.

Ruth is a historian of Japanese art (including Japanese crafts) from the earliest times to the 20th century. Starr’s current research seeks to untangle the web of connections linking Japanese art and European art, following the common thread of lacquerware. Her major interest is how these links were manifest in Ireland during the Japonisme movement of the late 19th Century, particularly the Japanese influence on Eileen Gray, (1878- 1976); also Japonisme in 19th and 20th century Ireland and lacquerware in Japan and Europe.


May

07

11:00

Tour of Eileen Gray Exhibition at National Musuem of Ireland - Collin's Barracks

  • 📅Tuesday, May 7, 2024
  • 🕥11:00 - 13:00

More Details Later.

Numbers limited.


May

14

10:30

Did you notice?

Séamus Cannon

  • 📅Tuesday, May 14, 2024
  • 🕥10:30 - 12:30
  • 🏟Newtownpark Pastoral Centre (map)

Does your house have a boot scraper, fancy fascias, jostle stones (as you know they are always in pairs!), a Victorian bellpull? What is a benchmark and why is it important? What does your streetname tell you about its history? What about the decorative masonry and ironwork in our neighbourhood? How would you know who made the iron railings? Seamus Cannon will focus attention on what is hidden in plain sight in our immediate neighbourhood and encourage you to see it in a new light.

Dr. Séamus Cannon is an educator who, in retirement indulges his interests in James Joyce, Local History and furniture making. He is fascinated by the overlooked detail in our built environment and writes a monthly column for the Monkstown Voice on the topic. He is the author, with Carole Cullen, of Monkstown, a Victorian Village and of ‘You’d be filled with Wonder’, the Story of Dun Laoghaire Harbour.


May

19

15:00

U3A walk in Monkstown

Séamus Cannon

  • 📅Sunday, May 19, 2024
  • 🕥15:00 - 16:30

90 minute walk in Victorian Monkstown lead by Séamus Cannon.

Meet at the Ring (centre of village opposite Church of Ireland).

Numbers limted.

More details later.


May

28

12:30

Summer Lunch - Royal Irish Yacht Club

  • 📅Tuesday, May 28, 2024
  • 🕥12:30 - 14:30

More details later