Michael Healy, 1873-1941

Wilhelmina Geddes

Life and work

Nicola Gordon Bowe

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 f…

Lady Butler

War artist and traveller, 1846–1933

Catherine Wynne

This is the first biography of Victorian Britain’s greatest war artist, Elizabeth Thompson Butler, who found fame and public acclaim after exhibiting her Crimea…

Sarah Cecilia Harrison

Artist, Social Campaigner and City Councillor

Margarita Cappock

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,…

The history of Wexford Festival Opera, 1951–2021

In a place like no other

Karina Daly

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 start…

The Vibrant House

Irish writing and domestic space

Rhona Richman Kenneally & Lucy McDiarmid, editors

'This engaging, subtle book uses many perspectives, historically and theoretically informed, to explore Irish domestic space. Two fine Vona Groarke poems frame …

The Dublin Civic Portrait Collection

Patronage, politics and patriotism, 1603–2013

Mary Clark

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 Dubli…

Visualizing the Celtic Revival

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

Róisín Kennedy

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…

Evie Hone and the international avant-garde

Joseph McBrinn

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 been describe…