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International Women's Day 2023
From Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
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• The National Museum of Ireland-Decorative Arts and History, housed at Collins Barracks Dublin, will host an interactive ‘handling session’ called Unconvertable Rebels.
It will explore objects from the Museum's handling collection which reflect the history of women's activism during the revolutionary era of 1913-1923, highlighting several key figures who shaped this extraordinary period of Irish history. It will feature objects, such as bullets, pamphlets and badges, representing the many roles women filled during this turbulent period.
More details available here.
• The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) has arranged a variety of activities, such as a biodiversity walk through their magnificent formal gardens and meadows. Visitors can also learn all there is to know about natural dyeing and ink making processes, as well as taking part in a guided tour of the retrospective exhibition, ‘Irish Gothic’ by Patricia Hurl. More information can be found here.
• Dublin’s James Joyce Centre will host ‘Reading Molly’, a group reading of Molly Bloom’s famous soliloquy from James Joyce’s Ulysses. This extraordinary final chapter of Joyce’s epic Dublin novel brings out all the wit and passion of one of the finest passages of writing in modern literature. More details here.
• On March 8th, the National Gallery of Ireland is hosting an International Women’s Day-themed tour, exploring a selection of works by women artists in the Gallery's permanent collection. More details available here.
• In Cork, the Crawford Art Gallery will be promoting three Irish artists from their Behind the Scenes exhibition. Norah Brigid Ní Chuill’s work looks at Traveller culture in a positive or non-stereotypical light. Angela Burchill is a member of the Crawford Supported Studios, and Suzanna Chan is an artist of colour whose work challenges the performance of stereotypical gender roles. The artworks by these women bring diversity and inclusion to the National Collection. More details available at Crawford Gallery.
• The Arts Council: Will be celebrating women artists from within the Arts Council collection - its lending collection of over 1200 artworks. The celebration will be on its social media channels. Arts Council
• Commemorations: The Decade of Centenaries Women’s Strand, Mná100.ie supported the update of the Women’s History Database, which is being launched on International Women’s Day and through the Community Strand of the Decade of Centenaries programme, Waterford City and County Council are launching their book on the Waterford women in Cumann na mBan also on the 8th. Mná100.ie
• National Concert Hall: The National Symphony Orchestra is hosting Daughters of the Pirate Queen: The Spirit of Grace O’Malley, led by award-winning Irish composer and conductor Eímear Noone and eight of Ireland’s top female performers, on Wednesday 8 March 2023.
• Chester Beatty: Join museum guide Mary O’Riordan for an exploration of its temporary exhibition, First Fragments: Biblical Papyrus from Roman Egypt. To highlight International Women’s Day, there will be an emphasis on women represented in these books. Free, booking required, limited to 10 participants.
• National Gallery of Ireland: Talk and Tea: Pioneering Irish Women Artists, stories from the National Art Archives Collection, 7 March, 11am-noon, Millennium Wing Studios.
Join National Gallery of Ireland archivist Leah Benson for this special in-person talk on the role played by Irish women artists in the development of Irish art, and some fascinating stories from the National Art Archives Collection.
Admission: €5 (Discounts available for over 65s, jobseekers, students and members of the Friends.)
Booking: Book a Talk & Tea Ticket Online here.
• The Ulster Scots Agency will be sharing images and background information on several famous Ulster-Scots women in a gallery that will be posted on its social media channels.
• National Archives: Did you know that the oldest record it holds relating to a woman is a memoranda roll from 1309? That the place of Countess Markievicz’s birth is given incorrectly on the cover of her prison file? That you can examine the will of Princess Grace of Monaco in our Reading Room? Or that we hold the records of the Joint Committee of Women’s Societies and Social Workers until it was wound up in 1993?
To mark International Women’s Day, the National Archives will relaunch its online guide to sources for women’s history which we hold in our collections. It’s free to consult our archives – so why not check out the updated guide here and pay a visit to Bishop Street, Dublin 8?