The Wood Quay Oral History Project is an initiative of the Dublin City Heritage Plan, co-funded by the Heritage Council and commissioned by the Heritage Officer of Dublin City Council, […]
Read More →Against a backdrop of political uncertainty regarding Home Rule, and with soon-to-be-armed volunteers appearing on Irish streets, North and South, the Battle of Clontarf was presented as a definitive victory […]
Read More →The year 1914 saw the beginning of the painting of the murals depicting the history of the city within the rotunda of Dublin’s City Hall, the work of students of […]
Read More →History painting—the most important, albeit conservative, manner of European painting—was occasionally subverted in Ireland for anti-establishment purposes. James Barry’s St Patrick Baptizing the King of Cashel (1763), Daniel Maclise’s Marriage […]
Read More →Born in Dromore, Co. Down, Hugh Frazer studied in the Dublin Society Schools in 1812 and exhibited regularly with the Society of Artists and the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA). In […]
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