Visual Art: Accessible Events at The National Gallery in June 2025

There are several accessible events coming up at the National Gallery in June 2025.

Tour for people who are Hard of Hearing or have a hearing impairment of LGBTQIA+ Artworks
Thursday 5 June, 5.30pm to 6.30pm
Location: Courtyard

This free tour, exploring some highlights of the Gallery’s LGBTQIA+ collection, is for individuals who are hard of hearing or have hearing impairments. This tour is fully accessible to people who are hard of hearing and use a tour guide system with T-loop capabilities. A tour for people who have a hearing impairment or who are Hard of Hearing tour of the permanent collection or other temporary exhibitions takes place at 5.30pm on the first Thursday of every month.

Audio Described Tour of LGBTQIA+ Artworks
Thursday 20 June, 6pm to 7pm
Location: Courtyard, National Gallery of Ireland

Join the Gallery’s highly trained tour guides for an audio described exploration of the LGBTQIA+ collection. Visitors will be guided through key parts of the Gallery building and focus on several highlights on display incorporating audio description and discussion.

This tour is fully accessible to people who are hard of hearing and use a tour guide system with T-loop capabilities. An audio described Tour of the permanent collection or other temporary exhibitions takes place at 6pm on the third Thursday of every month.

Irish Sign Language Tour of LGBTQIA+ Artworks
Saturday 21 June, 11.30am to 12.30pm
Location: Various locations across the National Gallery of Ireland

Join the Gallery’s Irish Sign Language tour guides for a look at highlights from the Gallery’s LGBTQIA+ collection. As the Gallery endeavours to make their activities and events accessible to the deaf community, we wish to welcome members of the ISL community to the Gallery. This tour is exclusively in Irish Sign Language and will not have any translation available

Curator’s Introductory Talk: An Artist’s Presence 
Tuesday 24 June, 12pm to 12.45pm
Location: Online via Zoom

Discover more about the exhibition Créatúir na Cartlainne | Tails from the Archive with exhibition Curator Marie Lynch. This exhibition celebrates the Irish artist’s relationship with animals – as a source of joy, humour, awe, inspiration and companionship. The exhibition unleashes the menagerie of creatures held in the Centre for the Study of Irish Art. Beloved pets and wild beasts emerge from the archives, hidden between the pages of sketchbooks and illustrated letters, or captured forever in watercolours, stencils and maquettes. With a particular focus on recent acquisitions, the exhibition features the work of Stephen McKenna, Nancy Wynne-Jones, Conor Fallon, Bea Orpen, Elizabeth C. Yeats, Daniel O’Neill, Anne Yeats, Oisín Kelly, Basil Rákóczi, Jack B. Yeats, Deborah Brown, and William Orpen.

This free talk will take place online via Zoom. Login details will be contained in the e-mail booking receipt.  The talk will be recorded and made available on the Gallery’s YouTube channel until the exhibition ends. This event will be accompanied by an Irish sign language interpreter.

Please note all public tours are fully accessible to people who are hard of hearing and use a tour guide system with T-loop capabilities.

For more information and to book, visit nationalgallery.ie/whats-on or read the National Gallery’s visitor guide for details of what to expect on your visit to the gallery.

Image credits:

William Edward Frost (1810-1877), Dancing Nymphs.

Image: Frederic William Burton, 1776-1869, White Horse in a Stable, ‘Mon Frère’, NGI. 2014.2.1

Jack Caffrey, The Pimlico Project, 2021