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The Irish Museum of Modern Art
IMMA is Ireland's national institution for the collection and presentation of modern and contemporary art. |
| www.modernart.ie/en/index.htm |
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Louis le Brocquy
Louis le Brocquy is recognised by many as the greatest Irish artist of the twentieth century, and one of the greatest of any era. His painting of the heads of great literary and artistic figures such as W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, William Shakespeare, Federico Garcia Lorca and Seamus Heaney are recognized the world over as being a distinctively powerful and significant part of the canon of 20th century art. |
| www.louislebrocquy.com/ |
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The Royal Hibernian Academy
The RHA is an artist based and artist orientated institution dedicated to developing, affirming and challenging the public's appreciation and understanding of traditional and innovative approaches to the visual arts. The RHA Annual Exhibition, where over half of the work is selected from open submission, provides an unparalleled opportunity to view Ireland’s best-established and most promising future artists. |
| www.royalhibernianacademy.com/ |
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Highlanes Gallery.
Housed in the former Franciscan Church, Drogheda, the recently opened Highlanes Gallery displays the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection which dates from the 17th century and features many of Ireland’s leading artists including Drogheda artist Nano Reid. The gallery also hosts international and national traveling exhibitions. |
| www.highlanes.ie/ |
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The Model Arts and Niland Gallery
The Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, is home to the impressive Niland Art Collection, which features work by Jack B. Yeats, Paul Henry, Dorothy Cross and Nick Miller among others. |
| www.modelart.ie/ |
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Irish Arts Review
A most informative quarterly magazine with in-depth articles on Irish art, architecture and design along with exhibition listings and auction results. |
| www.irishartsreview.com/ |
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The Hunt Museum
The Hunt Museum, Limerick, exhibits one of Ireland's greatest private collections of art and antiquities, dating from the Neolithic to the 20th Century, including works by Renoir, Picasso and Yeats. |
| www.huntmuseum.com |
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Circa
Ireland’s leading magazine for contemporary visual arts and culture. |
| www.recirca.com/ |
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The Hugh Lane Gallery
In the heart of Dublin city, the Hugh Lane Gallery houses one of Ireland’s foremost collections of modern and contemporary art. |
| www.hughlane.ie |
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The National Gallery of Ireland
Ireland’s national collection of art from the 14th to the 20th Century |
| www.nationalgallery.ie |
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The Crawford Municipal Art Gallery
The Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, the city art museum for Cork, has a permanent collection which comprises over 2000 works, ranging from eighteenth century Irish and European painting and sculpture, through to contemporary video installations. |
| www.crawfordartgallery.com |
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Percy French Summer School
The inaugural Percy French Summer School in 2009, which was set up to explore the literary and artistic abilities of William Percy French (1854-1920), was an outstanding success. The school is now held each summer in the historic surroundings of Castlecoote House, Co. Roscommon. It combines a programme of events which set out to commemorate, interpret and celebrate this Irish luminary. For more information and to contact the Percy French Summer School please visit their website: |
| www.percyfrench.ie |
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The National Irish Visual Arts Library
NIVAL was formally established in 1997 with the aim of documenting all aspects of 20th century and contemporary Irish art and design and providing public access to a national research resource. |
| www.ncad.ie/nival/ |
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Kevin Geary - Painter & Photographer
Kevin Geary, of Irish parentage, formerly of Wexford and London, now living and working in Sedona, Arizona, produces colourful abstract works as well as superbly detailed pencil or ink portraits and beautiful sepia landscape photographs |
| www.kevingearyart.com |
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Ciara O'Hara
Emerging Irish artist Ciara O'Hara works across a wide range of media, including print, drawing, painting, photography and porcelain. Her distinctly feminine style incorporates imagery from nature, while also including elements of nature-inspired man-made design. An honours graduate of the National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ciara has exhibited repeatedly in the RHA Annual Exhibition as well as regularly with a range of galleries in Dublin. For further information see: www.ciaraohara.com |
| www.ciaraohara.com |
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Gabhann Dunne
Gabhann Dunne was the winner of The Whyte's Award at the 179th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition: 26 May-25 July, 2009. This award celebrates artistic excellence by artists under the age of thirty-five and was awarded to Dunne for his work entitled, ‘California, 2009’. This work also earned Dunne the Hennessy Craig Scholarship at the same exhibition. Dunne graduated with an honours degree in Fine Art in 1997 from the Dublin Institute of Technology. Since then he has lived and worked in Amsterdam, New York, Seoul, and Granada. He is currently working and living in Dublin. |
| www.gabhanndunne.ie |
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Stuart Morle
A contemporary painter, in traditional style, of portraits, landscape and still life, based in Dublin |
| www.stuartmorle.com |
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Ranelagh Arts Festival
A great series of events in this attractive south Dublin suburb, September 2007 |
| www.ranelagharts.org |
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IrishArt.com
The main source for information on Irish art galleries. |
| www.irishart.com |
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Paul Gallagher - Artist
Paul is a recent graduate of IADT Dun Laoghaire and has worked with Whyte's at auctions over the past five years. |
| http://www.needapainting.com/ |
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The ArtPrice Search Bar
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Chester Beatty Library
Chester Beatty Library is an art museum and library which houses the great collection of manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and some decorative arts assembled by Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968). |
| www.cbl.ie |
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Garda Síochána History Site
A superb new site with history and background of the Irish Police Force - much of interest to collectors of police uniforms, badges, insignia etc. |
| www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7900/ |
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County Roscommon History
This is a non-commercial site dedicated to publications, documents and ephemera about County Roscommon and Roscommon People everywhere. |
| www.roscommonhistory.ie |
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1916 Rising Medals & Memorabilia
This site shows a collection items associated with Easter Week 1916, its prelude and aftermath
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| www.theeasterrising.eu |
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STAMPA - Irish National Stamp Exhibition
The premier event for philatelists and postal historians, which takes place in October of each year, at the RDS Ballsbridge. |
| www.stampa.ie |
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The MultiText Project in Irish History
The MultiText Project in History is an innovative educational project, brought to you by the History Department, University College Cork. It is the largest and most ambitious project undertaken by any university to provide resources for students of Modern Irish History at all levels: University students, the general reader, and second-level students. |
| http://multitext.ucc.ie/ |
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RTE - The History Show
Discover how our world was shaped as Myles Dungan and guests explore events ranging from medieval times to the recent past. Hear stories about people, places, objects, songs, events, movements, leisure and much more besides. |
| http://www.rte.ie/radio1/thehistoryshow/index.html |
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Newstalk - Talking History
The programme takes a contemporary look at history and the lessons that can be learnt from it. The show challenges the listener to rethink their views and to deepen their understanding of history. Presented by Patrick Geoghegan
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| http://www.newstalk.ie/programmes/all/talking-history/ |
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Irish Culture & Customs Website
Traditions, folklore, history and more. If it's Irish, it's here. Or will be!
"People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors."
-Edmund Burke
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| http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/ |
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History Ireland
A really great illustrated Irish history magazine suitable for the scholar and the general reader. Feature articles from all periods of history, books reviews, news, etc. Available on line or by post or in newsagents and bookshops |
| www.historyireland.com |
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Little Museum of Dublin
History comes to life at this charming museum of Dublin, housed in one of the city’s finest Georgian townhouses. The Little Museum of Dublin is a distinctive new addition to the cultural map of Ireland's capital. The most popular way to see the museum is on a guided tour – tours run at 1pm, 3pm and 5pm each day. |
| www.littlemuseum.ie/ |
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