I was delighted to be invited by the Polish embassy in Ireland to the launch of a new exhibition in the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) on the life of the Polish philosopher, Jan Łukasiewicz (1878-1956). It was fitting that the event took place in the room where Prof Łukasiewicz delivered his lectures as Chair of Mathematical Logic at the RIA.
Launch of the exhibition in the RIA, Dawson Street, Dublin. 11 Oct. 2022.
In 2019, I wrote an article for the Irish Times about the Polish philosopher and how he came to live in Ireland in 1946. You can read it here. When he died in Dublin in 1956, he was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery in Harold's Cross. His funeral was attended by the man who helped to bring him to Ireland in the first place, Éamon de Valera. We learned at the exhibition launch that there are plans in place to repatriate his remains to Poland. I look forward to seeing the exhibition when it travels around Ireland in the coming months.
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