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Evie Hone and the international avant-garde

Evie Hone and the international avant-garde

Evie Hone (1894–1955) is one of the few figures in Irish art history to have become a household name, to have found international fame and to have been described as ‘heroic’. Yet she was something...Evie Hone (1894–1955) is one of the few figures in Irish art history to have become a household name, to...
Author/Editor: Joseph McBrinn
Visualizing the Celtic Revival

Visualizing the Celtic Revival

The Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland – selected writings by Nicola Gordon Bowe

This volume brings together Nicola Gordon Bowe’s most important writings on the Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland, including insightful essays on its cultural and art historical background and contexts, the leading patrons and artists...This volume brings together Nicola Gordon Bowe’s most important writings on the Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland, including insightful...
Author/Editor: Róisín Kennedy
Caricature and the Irish

Caricature and the Irish

Satirical prints from the Library of Trinity College Dublin, c.1780-1830

From the author’s extensive collection given to Trinity College in 1996, 105 caricatures, political and social, have been selected that poke fun at the Irish during London’s golden age of caricature. Some of them lampoon...From the author’s extensive collection given to Trinity College in 1996, 105 caricatures, political and social, have been selected that...
Author/Editor: Nicholas K. Robinson
Michael Healy, 1873-1941

Michael Healy, 1873-1941

An Túr Gloine’s stained glass pioneer

This book tells the story of the reclusive stained glass artist, raised in a Dublin tenement, who ahead of Harry Clarke, Wilhelmina Geddes and Evie Hone, established the bar for artistic and technical excellence in...This book tells the story of the reclusive stained glass artist, raised in a Dublin tenement, who ahead of Harry...
Author/Editor: David Caron
Sarah Cecilia Harrison

Sarah Cecilia Harrison

Artist, Social Campaigner and City Councillor

Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941) was one of Dublin’s finest portrait painters but she also immersed herself in the political and social fabric of Dublin life, becoming the first female elected as a Dublin City Councillor...Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941) was one of Dublin’s finest portrait painters but she also immersed herself in the political and...
Author/Editor: Margarita Cappock
The history of Wexford Festival Opera, 1951–2021

The history of Wexford Festival Opera, 1951–2021

In a place like no other

In 1951, the first ever Wexford Opera Festival (now known as ‘Wexford Festival Opera’) took place in a small town in the southeast corner of Ireland. What started out as an informal gathering of friends...In 1951, the first ever Wexford Opera Festival (now known as ‘Wexford Festival Opera’) took place in a small town...
Author/Editor: Karina Daly
Studies in Irish Georgian Silver

Studies in Irish Georgian Silver

Irish silver, for long renowned among collectors and connoisseurs, is increasingly being considered as an aspect of the material world of the past. Its making, acquisition and use tells much about past attitudes and behaviour....Irish silver, for long renowned among collectors and connoisseurs, is increasingly being considered as an aspect of the material world...
Author/Editor: Alison FitzGerald, editor
Lady Butler

Lady Butler

War artist and traveller, 1846–1933

This is the first biography of Victorian Britain’s greatest war artist, Elizabeth Thompson Butler, who found fame and public acclaim after exhibiting her Crimean War painting The Roll Call in 1874. A favourite of Queen Victoria,...This is the first biography of Victorian Britain’s greatest war artist, Elizabeth Thompson Butler, who found fame and public acclaim...
Author/Editor: Catherine Wynne
Epigraphy in an intermedial context

Epigraphy in an intermedial context

Epigraphy refers to inscriptions on hard material such as stone, metal and wood. As a discipline, it is often considered to be part of the literary sources written in a certain language or recorded in...Epigraphy refers to inscriptions on hard material such as stone, metal and wood. As a discipline, it is often considered...
Author/Editor: Alessia Bauer, Elise Kleivane & Terje Spurkland, editors
An Insular odyssey

An Insular odyssey

Manuscript culture in early Christian Ireland and beyond

Between the seventh and twelfth centuries, a distinctive form of script and illumination predominated in the manuscripts produced in the milieu of the Irish church. Although associated principally with Britain and Ireland, Ireland’s reputation for...Between the seventh and twelfth centuries, a distinctive form of script and illumination predominated in the manuscripts produced in the...
Author/Editor: Rachel Moss, Felicity O'Mahony & Jane Maxwell, editors
The Vibrant House

The Vibrant House

Irish writing and domestic space

'This engaging, subtle book uses many perspectives, historically and theoretically informed, to explore Irish domestic space. Two fine Vona Groarke poems frame the whole; five short spell-binding memoirs by writers and seven essays by leading...'This engaging, subtle book uses many perspectives, historically and theoretically informed, to explore Irish domestic space. Two fine Vona Groarke...
Author/Editor: Rhona Richman Kenneally & Lucy McDiarmid, editors
Islands in a global context

Islands in a global context

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Insular Art

Essays from thirty leading experts on Insular art c.AD400–1500, across all media, including stone, vellum, cloth, metal and glass. Along with a focus on art of the Insular world of Britain and Ireland, the book...Essays from thirty leading experts on Insular art c.AD400–1500, across all media, including stone, vellum, cloth, metal and glass. Along...
Author/Editor: Conor Newman, Mags Mannion & Fiona Gavin, editors