[1] It hosted lectures, debates and conferences, and delivered courses and training, in various subjects such as Sociology and Adult Education.
Originally based in Eccles Street, it moved to Mountjoy Square Dublin.
[4] Appointed in 1993 its current director is Mary Maher, she also served as chairperson of NALA for 6 years (1997-2003).
[5] The building was built c. 1790 by Frederick Darley senior, for a Joseph Goff (flour merchant, member of the RDS, and a director and governor the Bank of Ireland).
[6] It was owned from 1909 by Alderman Walter L. Cole who became a sinn fein TD for Cavan, and a friend of Arthur Griffith, and used for meetings of the banned first Dáil in 1919.