Royal Hibernian Academy Schools

The RHA Schools had been established circa 1860 and had both co-habited with and struggled for many years against the more favoured Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. In 1939 it was deemed totally non-viable to run two schools of art in a comparatively small city. So in 1940 although funded by sales commissions from RHA exhibitions, the Schools closed and the Metropolitan School of Art, which in 1936 had been elevated to the status of National College of Art & Design assumed all the responsibilities of the RHA Schools.