Lar Joye (Head of Commercial)
Lar Joye is Port Heritage Director at Dublin Port, where he has led the Port Heritage and Special Projects team since 2017 and oversees the Company’s 300-year- old Port Archive and Port City Integration. Previously, Lar worked as a Head of the Irish Film Archive and as Curator of Irish Military History at the National Museum of Ireland, where he led a multidisciplinary team to create the museum’s largest exhibition, Soldiers and Chiefs. He has also collaborated with ANU Productions on immersive, historically based theatre works since 2015 including Pals – The Irish at Gallipoli.
Lar is also a Reserve Defence Forces Officer and lead instructor on the Cultural Property Protections Course in United Nations Training School, Ireland (UNTSI). He is a graduate of UCD with a MA in 20th Century History, a MA in Museum Studies from Leicester University and the Getty Museum Leadership Institute and is a former Chair of the Irish Museum Association.