Waterford Treasures – Three Museums in the Viking Triangle has the pleasure of inviting you to a talk by Dr Alison Fitzgerald who will present;
‘Silver in Georgian Dublin: Making, Selling, Consuming’
Alison Fitzgerald is a lecturer in the Department of History at Maynooth University.
She has published extensively on the market for silver in eighteenth-century Ireland, including articles in Apollo, Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies and Silver Studies.
Her monograph ‘Silver in Georgian Dublin: Making, Selling, Consuming’ was published by Routledge in 2016. She is a Director of the Castletown Foundation, a member of the academic advisory board for Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, The Journal of the Irish Georgian Society, and Secretary to the Antique-Plate Committee of the Company of Goldsmiths of Dublin. She is editor of Studies in Irish Georgian Silver which will be published by Four Courts Press in Spring 2020.
Booking is highly recommended!
Only €5 for this exciting talk and all proceeds go towards the Museum acquisition and conservation fund.
Contact the reception at the Medieval Museum or the Bishop’s Palace, phone 0761 10 2501 or email [email protected] to book your tickets.
Thursday 30th May, 2019 at 7.30pm, in the Garden Room, Medieval Museum, Viking Triangle, Waterford.
This event is generously sponsored by the Granville Hotel.
