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Pat Kerr joined the Board of the National Print Museum in January 2012 and was elected Chair of the Board in January 2021. He also chairs the Health & Safety Committee and is a member of the Management Committee. Pat is a Chartered Architect with his own private practice, is a Chartered Arbitrator, & is accredited in Conservation to Grade 111. Pat graduated in 1994 with an Honours Degree in Architecture from DIT, is a Member of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and holds a Diploma (with Distinction) in Construction Law and Contract Administration. With almost 30 years continuous full-time experience in the architectural profession, Pat has extensive experience in all aspects of the profession with particular expertise in the Legislative aspects of practice, and an in-depth knowledge of Planning & Building Control Legislation, Health & Safety, and Contract Administration.

Elaine Cronin joined the Board of the National Print Museum in May 2021. She is a member of the Finance Committee and has recently been appointed Company Secretary. She has considerable experience across the creative industries and not-for-profit sectors, and previously held management positions in early years arts, theatre, film, festival, and multi-disciplinary settings. Elaine currently works in a finance role for a regulatory body in the public sector, and is a non-executive director and charity trustee of a development education organisation. She is an Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Affiliate, and a graduate of the National College of Art and Design (BA History of Art and Design and Craft Design, HDip Community Arts Education), University College Dublin (MA Cultural Policy and Arts Management) and the Institute of Public Administration (BBS Accounting). Elaine’s professional interests include corporate governance, sustainability, spreadsheet-wizardry, and equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Aoife Flynn joined the Board of the National Print Museum in 2020. She also Chairs the Fundraising Committee. Aoife has over 20 years of experience in the arts and culture sector in Ireland, most recently as Head of Audiences and Development for IMMA, the Irish Museum of Modern Art where she led out on their communications and fundraising departments, building audiences and developing a new brand and website for the Museum. Aoife’s career in the sector includes work with local municipal authorities on cultural and regional development, developing cultural tourism products, event production, arts management, arts marketing, music, comedy and art programming, audience development and digital development.  She holds an MPhil (with Distinction) in Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship from Trinity College / Goldsmiths London, a Diploma in Entrepreneurial Studies from UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School and a BA in English and Sociology from UCD. Originally from Sligo she now lives in Dublin and is the EMEA Community Development Manager at Facebook.

Dr Angela Griffith is an assistant professor with the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Trinity College Dublin and principal investigator for Cuala Press Project, Schooner Foundation, TCD. She joined the Board of the National Print Museum in May, 2021 and has been a member of the NPM curatorial committee since 2012. Her research interests include artist and the printed image and the agency of such imagery within society, culturally, politically and socially.

Curatorial projects include; The Yeats Sisters and Irish Design: Making, Identities and Legacy ( TCD and Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland 2024-), Blot’s Most Marvellous Historical Guide to Printing Books (NPM, 2021) Making their Mark; Irish Painter-Etchers 1880-1930 (National Gallery of Ireland, 2019), Drawn to the Page; Irish artists and Illustration (TCD, 2013).

Eunan McKinney is a Senior Adviser specialising in Advocacy, Communications, and Public Affairs.

He previously held the role as Head of Communications & Advocacy at Alcohol Action Ireland (2017-2022), a non-governmental organisation where he directed the civil society response to secure the enactment of the Public Health Alcohol Act, 2018.

He served as Political Director to the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (2014-2016), advancing public policy including national broadband delivery, an energy white-paper and eircode systems, and to the Minister for Primary Care at the Department of Health (2012-14), delivering strategic policy on universal primary healthcare (all children under six), and alcohol and drug policy.

Prior to a period in political management and government administration (2005-2016), he was Founder of Source, a creative communications agency (1990-2005). He is a history and politics graduate, with a Masters in Politics, from University College Dublin, and holds a Professional Diploma in Advertising studies from Technological University Dublin.

He currently serves voluntary as a full member of a WHO Europe Technical Advisory Group, is Chair of CareGivers Ireland clg, Project Director of the Yeats Sisters Commemoration Project, and is a non-executive Director of Integrated Risk Solutions Ltd and Sligo Jazz Project clg, and is a frequent contributor to international fora and academic centres on advocacy and communications leadership practice.

Aoife Ní Mhaoláin joined the Board of the National Print Museum in 2023. She is a strategic communications and corporate governance professional with approximately ten years’ experience engaging and collaborating with a range of stakeholders and clients across public-sector, private-enterprise and non-profit organisations. Over the course of her career, Aoife has worked across multiple sectors with Irish and international teams to develop media strategies and public affairs campaigns that supported clients’ commercial and CSR objectives, while increasing their public profiles, enhancing their relationship with their existing target publics and expanding their audience reach.

Aoife is a graduate (BA, French and History of Art & Architecture) of Trinity College Dublin, and a postgraduate (MA, Political Communication) of Dublin City University. She also holds a Diploma in Public Relations from the Public Relations Institute of Ireland and a Diploma in Governance, Risk and Compliance from the Alliance Manchester Business School.”

Patrick Ryan joined the Board of the National Print Museum in July 2020. Patrick is a Chartered Surveyor and also holds a Diploma in Corporate Governance and is a Chartered Director. He currently works for Colliers International as the Head of Hotels & Leisure based in Dublin and has over 40 years of experence with national and international companies including NAMA, Christie Group plc and Inter-Continental Hotels Corporation. Patrick is a Fellow of the Institute of Hospitality. His experience incorporates a deep understanding of the hospitality industry encompassing property valuations, asset management techniques and hotel operational functions.

Finance Committee

  • Elaine Cronin
  • Colm Fitzpatrick
  • Carla Marrinan Funder
  • Aoife Ní Mhaoláin
  • Dr Aoife Cosgrove

Relocation & Redevelopment Committee

  • Pat Kerr (Chair)
  • Honora Faul
  • Colm Fitzpatrick
  • Aoife Flynn
  • Carla Marrinan Funder
  • Eunan McKinney

Fundraising Committee

  • Aoife Flynn (Chair)
  • Colm Fitzpatrick
  • Pat Kerr
  • Carla Marrinan Funder
  • Rachel O’Byrne

Curatorial Committee

  • Dr Ciaran Swan (Chair)
  • Dr Angela Griffith | Trinity College Dublin
  • Carla Marrinan Funder
  • Dave Darcy | One Strong Arm
  • Dr Dermot McGuinne
  • Mary Plunkett
  • Seán Sills

Health & Safety Committee

  • Pat Kerr
  • Carla Marrinan Funder

Emeritus Committee

  • Helmut Clissmann
  • Barry Lyons
  • Seán Sills