Depicting Dublin: Maps, Prints, Drawings & Photographs (all talks)

Depicting Dublin: understanding Dublin's architecture, urban morphology and social history through early maps, prints, drawings and photographs talk series

The Irish Georgian Society, in partnership with Dublin City Council's Heritage Office, presents a series of thematic talks which will explore the Dublin's architecture, urban morphology and social history through the examination of early maps, prints, drawings and photographs.

Tuesday 1st October: Maps and the story of Dublin by Dr Joseph Brady, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Geography, UCD and co-author of Dublin: Mapping the City (2023)

Tuesday 8th October: From Speed to Rocque: mapping early modern Dublin, 1610-1756 by Colm Lennon, MRIA, Professor Emeritus, History Department, Maynooth University, and author of the RIA Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Dublin, part II, 1610 to 1756 (2009) and the RIA Dublin 1610 to 1756: the making of the early modern city (2009)

Tuesday 15th October: Malton’s Dublin Prints: picking through the details correct by Graham Hickey, CEO Dublin Civic Trust and co-author of Malton’s Views of Dublin: The Story of a Georgian City (2021)

Tuesday 22nd October: Georgian Dublin in Maps by Rob Goodbody, historian and conservation consultant and editor of the third volume of Irish Historic Towns Atlas of Dublin, covering the period 1756 to 1847, published by the Royal Irish Academy in 2014.

Tuesday 5th November: Two Cities, Two Maps: John Rocque’s London and Dublin compared by Dr John Montague, Associate Professor of Architecture at the College of Architecture Art and Design, at the American University of Sharjah, and co-author of John Rocque’s Dublin: a guide to the Georgian City (2010).

Tuesday 12th November: Hugh Douglas Hamilton’s The Cries of Dublin (1760) Revisited by William Laffan, art dealer and editor.

Tuesday 19th November: Dublin in Ordnance Survey Maps by Paul Ferguson, Map Librarian, Trinity College Dublin.

Tuesday 26th November: City Views: Art, Architecture and Dublin's Painters by Dr Kathryn Milligan, art historian, author of Painting Dublin: Visualising a changing city, 1886 – 1949 (2021).

Tuesday 3rd December: Finding Dublin in the photographic archive: an exploration of the city's Dublin’s architectural heritage through historic photographs by Dr Orla FitzPatrick, Research Fellow, Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute.