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The Fraserian Circle

The Fraserian Circle frontispiece to 'The Maclise Portait Gallery - A Gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters' (1830-1838)

Courtesy of Cork City Libraries

Chausable made at the Dún Emer Guild for St. Brendan's Cathedral, Loughrea.(1902-1903)

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Mass in a Connemara Cabin (1883) by Aloysius O’Kelly (1853-c.1951)

Mass in a Connemara Cabin (1883) by Aloysius O’Kelly (1853-c.1951) illustrates a practice common in rural locations in Ireland at the time. Note the picture of the Sacred Heart on the wall, an image that was common in Irish Catholic homes until well into the 20th century. Such images were usually mass-produced prints of works by relatively unknown artists. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Ireland. On loan to the NGI from the people of St. Patrick's Edinburgh and the Trustees of the Archdiocese of St. Andrew's and Edinburgh

Photo (c) National Gallery of Ireland (c) The Artist's Estate

Death Notice of Frank O'Meara

Death Notice for artist Frank O'Meara as published in the Carlow Sentinel October 1888. His death occurred on the 15th of October 1888 from malaria. He died at his home in Dublin Street, Carlow.

Carlow County Library

Wall-painting, Knockmoy Abbey, Co. Galway

Wall-painting, Abbeyknockmoy (Co. Galway) showing the attempted martyrdom of St Sebastian, and the Dance of Death.

Courtesy of the Photographic Unit, Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government

Éire (1907) by Beatrice Elvery (1881-1970)

Beatrice Elvery (1881-1970), Éire (1907), personifies Ireland as a Madonna type figure, with the new Ireland suggestive of the baby Christ. Elvery draws on early Renaissance conventions, such as the Maesta arrangement of the enthroned Madonna with saints in the background. Note St. Patrick on the left, and the protection of ‘souls’ within her saintly cloak. The ‘halo’ provided by the High Cross connects her to ancient Irish culture.

Collection of Lady Davis Goff

Chausables made at the Dún Emer Guild for St. Brendan's Cathedral, Loughrea (1902-1903)

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The Falconer

The Falconer, 1853 by Daniel Maclise

Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

The Death of Cuchulainn (1911-12) by Oliver Sheppard (1865-1941)

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Courtesy of An Post

Virgin Shroud (1993) by Dorothy Cross (b.1956)

Virgin Shroud (1993) by Dorothy Cross (b.1956). Cow hide, satin train, steel structure. The combination of cow’s udder (to form a bridal crown) and pure white dress, indicates the contradictions of traditional marital expectations, between virgin purity and reproductive nurturing. The ‘shroud’ of the title suggests such marriage was an end rather than a beginning.

Courtesy of the Kerlin Gallery, Dublin