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The
This lecture by Breandán Ó Cochláin can be divided into two parts. The first part deals with the history of traditional beekeeping in Ireland, some important world events in apiculture and the changes in the beekeeping craft down through the ages. 
Jennifer Goff, Curator of Furniture, Music and Scientific Instruments and the Eileen Gray Collection with the Art and Industrial Division at the National Museum of Ireland, will look at the history of Irish furniture through the late 19th to the 20th century, examining the movements, styles and furniture designers.
This lecture, given by John O’Riordan, MA Art History UCD, is intended to weave the loose threads together to reveal the glorious tapestry that is Christian Art. In the process, it is hoped to discern some of the influences that informed Irish medieval art. The great richness and expressiveness of Christian Art is a marriage of two forms, two sensibilities, and two conflicting injunctions. Its genesis lies, on the one hand, among the splendours late Imperial Rome and on the other hand in the remote and humble monasteries of Coptic Egypt. While in Exodus, we are enjoined not to make a likeness of anything that is in the Heaven above, or in the Earth beneath, Pope Gregory the Great demanded that art be ‘a bible for the illiterate’. 
The seminar will examine the period 1880-1920 in art, literature and music. The extraordinary pace of change during this time was both confusing and exciting. Few would dispute that the most vital developments, from an artistic point of view, took place in France, Austria, Russia and America and the seminar will focus on works produced in these countries. It was during this period that the accepted modes of art were questioned for the first time. This conscious and decisive break with tradition would result in the birth of modernism. 
