Audrey Whitty

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ISBN 978-1-906691-36-3 – pp. 26–29 [8]
  • Review of: "From Pupil to Master": a contemporary glass exhibition at the Solomon Fine Art Gallery, Dublin (12–27 October 2012); in Glass Network: The CGS Quarterly Magazine, Issue 47 (March 2013), p. 13 [8]
  • Personal life

    Whitty is married, with at least one daughter. [25]

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    Audrey Whitty
    Director, National Library of Ireland
    Assumed office
    February 2023 [1]