GIBSON BEQUEST SUB-COMMITTEE SPECIAL MEETING
GEORGE ATKINSON, R.H.A.,
Headmaster of the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, who has been appointed a member of the Advisory Committee of the Dublin Municipal Art Gallery [now Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin].
In December 1922, George Atkinson (1889-1941) Head Master, Metropolitan School of Art [now National College of Art and Design, Dublin] had already agreed to act as an ‘Expert Consultant’ for the Gibson Bequest Sub-Committee, along with Mr. Dermod O’Brien, President, Hibernian Academy; Mr Langton Douglas, Director, National Gallery of Ireland. ‘Local Experts’ were appointed as Mr. Daniel Corkery and Mr. Hugh Charde [Principal, Crawford Municipal School of Art] with a view to advising the Committee regarding the purchase of artworks.
CORK BOROUGH SESSIONS
Compensation Applications
‘The Hon. the Recorder in the City Court yesterday continued the hearing of Borough criminal injury applications. Mr. Maurice O’Connor, State Solicitor, and Mr. John Gallivan, Official Investigator, watched the claims on behalf of the Government. …Messrs. M. D. Daly and Sons, Academy Street, were awarded an agreed amount of £106 in respect of goods requisitioned from them on the 10th July, 1922. …Messrs. Alcock and Co. Ltd., Patrick Street, sought compensation relative to the wrecking of the window of their premises by a bomb explosion in December, 1922. The National troops were in occupation of the house at the time of the occurrence. A decree for £7 8s. 2d. was given.
…Mr. Hungerford … moved an adjourned application on behalf of the Bank of Ireland, whose Bridge Street sub-office was attacked by an armed party on the 1st July, 1922. Two armed men entered the office and ordered the staff to put their hands up. A third many jumped over the counter and took cash amounting to £288 9s 6d. Having heard legal arguments, the Recorder decided that the application did not come within the Act [Damage to Property (Compensation) Act, 1923] and refused it without costs.’
(Extracts from Cork Examiner, 6 March 1924, p8)
Monday 20 November / Thursday 30 November 1922
Thursday 16 November / Saturday 18 November 1922
Thursday 9 November / Tuesday 31 October 1922
11 July / 7 August / 11 August / 12 August 1922
