Venue Hire
Light-filled, spectacularly-proportioned, interconnected rooms on the piano nobile of No. 45 Merrion Square provide a gracious and elegant environment for daytime events, from buffet lunches to book launches, or evening receptions for up to 200 guests.
Rachel MacRory
Room
With beautiful views over Merrion Square and adjacent to the Lecture Room, the Rachel MacRory Room can be configured for hospitality, breakout sessions or meetings. Portable digital projection is available and the room has free Wi-Fi.
The room is named in honour of the late Rachel MacRory, first architectural heritage officer with the newly formed Department of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht in 1994, and member of the Archive board from 1998 until her untimely death in 2002, aged 35.
Dimensions (length x width x height): 8.5m x 6.5m x 4.9m
Capacity
Meeting: 20
Reception: 80
With beautiful views over Merrion Square and adjacent to the Lecture Room, the Rachel MacRory Room can be configured for hospitality, breakout sessions or meetings. Portable digital projection is available and the room has free Wi-Fi.
The room is named in honour of the late Rachel MacRory, first architectural heritage officer with the newly formed Department of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht in 1994, and member of the Archive board from 1998 until her untimely death in 2002, aged 35.
Dimensions (length x width x height): 8.5m x 6.5m x 4.9m
Capacity
Meeting: 20
Reception: 80
Achilles
Room
As with the Rachel MacRory Room, the Achilles Room is ideal for hospitality, breakout sessions or meetings. It can be used on its own or as an ancillary venue to the Rachel MacRory Room and Lecture Room.
The room derives its name from the chimneypiece, the plaques on which depict scenes from the life of the Greek hero, Achilles, including one showing the child Achilles being dipped in the River Styx by his mother Thetis.
Dimensions (length x width x height): 9.3m x 6.5m x 4.9m
Capacity
Meeting: 20
Reception: 80
As with the Rachel MacRory Room, the Achilles Room is ideal for hospitality, breakout sessions or meetings. It can be used on its own or as an ancillary venue to the Rachel MacRory Room and Lecture Room.
The room derives its name from the chimneypiece, the plaques on which depict scenes from the life of the Greek hero, Achilles, including one showing the child Achilles being dipped in the River Styx by his mother Thetis.
Dimensions (length x width x height): 9.3m x 6.5m x 4.9m
Capacity
Meeting: 20
Reception: 80
Lecture
Room
A large well-proportioned space, the Lecture Room faces onto Merrion Square and can accommodate a seated audience of up to 55 people. The room contains a lectern, a sound system (including amplification for speakers) and multi-media projector. Free Wi-Fi is also provided.
Perfect for individual talks or presentations, the Lecture Room, with the ancillary spaces on the first floor, is also ideal for symposiums and conferences.
Dimensions (length x width x height): 10.3m x 6m x 4.9m
Capacity
Lecture: 55
Meeting: 20
Reception: 90
A large well-proportioned space, the Lecture Room faces onto Merrion Square and can accommodate a seated audience of up to 55 people. The room contains a lectern, a sound system (including amplification for speakers) and multi-media projector. Free Wi-Fi is also provided.
Perfect for individual talks or presentations, the Lecture Room, with the ancillary spaces on the first floor, is also ideal for symposiums and conferences.
Dimensions (length x width x height): 10.3m x 6m x 4.9m
Capacity
Lecture: 55
Meeting: 20
Reception: 90
Homan Potterton
Room
Ideal for board or committee meetings, the Homan Potterton Room comfortably accommodates meetings for up to 20 people. Portable digital projection is available and the room has free Wi-Fi, making it suitable for hybrid meetings.
The room is named for the author, art historian, curator, connoisseur, and collector Homan Potterton who left a substantial bequest to the IAA to be used to conserve and repair documents in the IAA’s collections and to undertake photographic survey work.
Dimensions (length x width x height): 8.7m x 6.5m x 4.9m
Capacity
Meeting: 20
Reception: 50
Ideal for board or committee meetings, the Homan Potterton Room comfortably accommodates meetings for up to 20 people. Portable digital projection is available and the room has free Wi-Fi, making it suitable for hybrid meetings.
The room is named for the author, art historian, curator, connoisseur, and collector Homan Potterton who left a substantial bequest to the IAA to be used to conserve and repair documents in the IAA’s collections and to undertake photographic survey work.
Dimensions (length x width x height): 8.7m x 6.5m x 4.9m
Capacity
Meeting: 20
Reception: 50
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Large or small, every donation helps secure the future of the collection. We are very grateful for your support.
