In 1765, the Qianlong emperor (r. 1736-95) commanded Jesuit artists residing at his court to design pictures commemorating recent military conquests of foreign territory. Shortly thereafter, a set of sixteen drawings of these battles was sent to the Parisian engraver Charles Coc
A Sense of Place | History | Wars
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Triptych of cibachrome photographs. 150 x 100 cm (each), 'Blood of the Beast' is a triptych focusing on the subject of conflict and history in the north of Ireland, a subject that British artist Nigel Rolfe has returned to on many occasions in his work. A series of symbolic
A Sense of Freedom | History | Northern Ireland
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Acrylic on canvas. 152.6 x 183.2 cm, ‘Black and White’ is one of many works from Irish artist Michael Farrell's Pressé Series which he produced in the 1970’s. In these works, Farrell was inspired by curvilinear motifs from early Irish art which he used to create stylised,
A Sense of Identity | Art, Irish | History
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Oil on Canvas. 99 x 124 cm, In 'The Irish Coast' Stephen McKenna combines classical and academic approaches to painting with the great 17th century Dutch tradition of marine painting, to comment on a very contemporary, yet universal subject. Painted in 1981 during the heigh
A Sense of Place | Irish landscapes | Coasts
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Painted text; acyrlic on 96 styrofoam panels, Shane Cullen is an Irish artist whose largely text-based work deals with political issues, often specifically with official documents and symbols. 'Fragmens Sur Les Institutions Republicaines IV' was made over a period of four y
A Sense of Freedom | Arts | Installations (Art)
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Two light ship models, phosphorescent paint and u.v.lights, video, 10 minute loop. In 1999 Dorothy Cross was the winner of the Nissan Art Prize for a temporary public sculpture in Dublin. From 3-21 February 1999, Cross secured a decommissioned lightship, the 140 ft long Albat
A Sense of Place | History | Boats and boating
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Oil on Canvas. 168.5 x 183 cm, Megaceros Hibernicus was the largest deer of the species which flourished at the end of the last ice age and whose skeleton was later recovered from the bog-lands of Ireland. This semi-abstract painting of the skeleton of Megaceros Hibernicus
A Sense of Place | Arts | Animals
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Peasants outside an inn listening to a man reading the latest news about the Land League.
A Sense of Freedom | History | Land League (Ireland)
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Drawing made a year after O'Connell was elected to Parliament unopposed on 30 July 1829
A Sense of Freedom | Lawless, John, 1773-1837 | O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847
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This work is part of a set. The first picture, Ireland without the Repeal, represents a poverty stricken group around O'Connell outside the Four Courts. This second picture, Ireland with the Repeal, shows O'Connell in a coach and two horses gaily driving through a village with a
A Sense of Freedom | O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847 | Repeal movement (Ireland), 1810-1847
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Portrait of Augusta Gregory (1852-1932), Dramatist
A Sense of Identity | Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932 | History
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Daniel O'Connell, M.P., (1775-1847), who campaigned for Catholic Emancipation, addressing his supporters at "The Monster Meeting of the 20th September 1843 at Clifden", County Galway, Ireland.
A Sense of Freedom | O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847 | Monster Meeting
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