Tailteann Games (Aonach Tailteann), 1922
Start Date: August 1922
Type: Sporting and cultural event
Description: Sporting and cultural event held every 2-4 years in 1922, 1924, 1928, 1932.
The Games included an 'art section'.
Policy: To promote the new Irish Free State through a series of sporting and cultural events, which included an art exhibition of some nature.
Sources
National College of Art and Design, Minutes & Reports Folder, file no. 30, 1914-1941
Letter of Condolence from the Aonach Tailteann, addressed to the NCA, Dublin, on the death of Headmaster, George Atkinson, signed by O'hUadhaigh, Deputy Director.
Citing this record
'Tailteann Games (Aonach Tailteann), 1922', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/event.php?id=msib3_1217437287, accessed 03 Oct 2023]
