At our Annual General Meeting Dr John Turpin was elected as President of the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland.
Dr Turpin attended the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, was appointed professor of the history of art at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, in 1975 and was director of the college from 1989 to 1994. He has published extensively on the history of Irish art and recently wrote the two volume History of the Royal Hibernian Academy. He has served a previous term as president of the FNCI.
His predecessor, the distinguished painter Dr Tom Ryan, who sadly has died, was a former president of the Royal Hibernian Academy and was the first professional artist to have been president of the FNCI since Dermod O’Brien in the 1940s.
Ms June Lattimore was re-elected as Honorary Secretary and Dr Michael Burns was re-elected as Honorary Treasurer.
