Visiting Lecturers


As part of our Second Year Real World Learning Module, we invite professionals from across a range of Visual Culture Industries to speak in our Working in Visual Culture Lecture Series. Here are some recent speakers:

 




 Brian Crowley, Curator, Pearse Museum












 Tessa Giblin, Curator, Project Arts Centre

 



Lar Joye, Curator, Decorative Arts and History, National Museum of Ireland





Brid O’Sullivan, Assistant Keeper: Education & Outreach, National Library of Ireland



     







Eleanor Flegg, Interior Design Journalist



    




Sean Kissane, Curator: Exhibitions, Irish Museum of Modern Art








Lorraine Comer, Head of Education, National Museum of Ireland









 Simon O'Connor, Curator and Co-founder, Little Museum of Dublin



    





Anne Hodge, Curator of Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Ireland 

   
   


Pat Cooke, Director MA Cultural Policy & Arts Management UCD
  


      

  

Kate Strain, Independent Curator

  
  







 Peter Fitzgerald, Visual Culture Editor, CIRCA


 





Lisa Moran, Curator, Education & Community Irish Museum of Modern Art
    

        Meave Keane, Graphic Designer, Abbey Theatre
         




 
                



Declan Long, Art Writer & Turner Prize Judge


 
Gemma Tipton, Writer and Critic, Art & Architecture


     James Merrigan, Artist and Art Critic



    





Donal Maguire, Administrator, Centre of the Study of Irish Art, National Gallery of Ireland 
         
  




Martin McCabe, Cultural Critic, Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media


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