Foundation Dinner

Dublin artist Robert Ballagh will be the guest speaker at the Club Anniversary Dinner to be held on Friday 6 October.

Robert is being brought to Melbourne by the Celtic Club for this event.

He will speak on the Significance of the 1916 Easter Uprising and its relevance today.

Robert is a painter, sculptor & designer. In 1991, he coordinated the 75th Anniversary commemoration of the 1916 Easter uprising. Robert represented Ireland at the 1969 Paris Biennale. Among the theatre sets he has designed are sets for Riverdance, Samuel Beckett’s Endgame (1991) and Oscar Wilde’s Salome (1998). He has also designed over 70 postage stamps and the last series of Irish banknotes, “Series C’ before the introduction of the euro.

For ten years he chaired the Irish national congress, a non party organisation working for peace in Northern Ireland, and he is current president of the Ireland Institute, a centre for historical and cultural studies. He served as the first chairman of the Artists’ Association of Ireland when it was founded in 1981, and he is a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. He is also a member of Aosdana.

Robert’s artistic work appears in collections in the National Gallery of Ireland, the Ulster Museum, the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, the Albrecht Durer House in Nuremberg and Trinity College, Dublin.

The Club’s Grand Prize Raffle Draw of two return tickets to Ireland also occurs on this night.

The Club will be commemorating its 119th Anniversary, having been founded in 1887. You are welcome to join us. Click here to see information on this wonderful night.