Michael Healy, 1873-1941

Wilhelmina Geddes

Life and work

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Shortlisted for *The Apollo Awards 2016 **Book of the Year* and *The William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2016*. Also, *Times Literary Supplement* choice for...
Author/Editor: Nicola Gordon Bowe

Lady Butler

War artist and traveller, 1846–1933

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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...
Author/Editor: Catherine Wynne

Sarah Cecilia Harrison

Artist, Social Campaigner and City Councillor

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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...
Author/Editor: Margarita Cappock

The history of Wexford Festival Opera, 1951–2021

In a place like no other

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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...
Author/Editor: Karina Daly

The Vibrant House

Irish writing and domestic space

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'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...
Author/Editor: Rhona Richman Kenneally & Lucy McDiarmid, editors

The Dublin Civic Portrait Collection

Patronage, politics and patriotism, 1603–2013

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*Nominated for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2017* Beginning in the early 17th century and continuing to the present day, the city of Dublin...
Author/Editor: Mary Clark

Visualizing the Celtic Revival

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

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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...
Author/Editor: Róisín Kennedy

Evie Hone and the international avant-garde

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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...
Author/Editor: Joseph McBrinn