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Creating history : stories of Ireland in art /

Contributor(s): Rooney, Brendan [editor.].
Publisher: [Dublin] : Irish Academic Press : in association with the National Gallery of Ireland, 2016Description: xiii, 298 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 26 cm.Content type: text | still image | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 1911024280; 9781911024286:; 9781911024286.Subject(s): History in art | Ireland -- In art | Ireland -- HistoriographyDDC classification: 709.415
Contents:
'If the artist be as national as the minstral' : Irish history of display / Brendan Rooney -- Testimony -- History painting, painting history : the depiction of conflict in Irish art / Ruth Kennedy -- Conflict -- Creating order? Painting the crowd in nineteenth=century Ireland / Mary Jane Boland -- Assembly -- The marriage of Strongbow and Aoife : entertaining history in the interests of the state / Tom Dunne -- Art and uncertainty : painting in Ireland 1912-1932 / Roisin Kennedy -- Allegory -- The persistence of vision : picturing eviction in the nineteenth century / Emily Mark-Fitzgerald -- Lamentation -- 'The occupation of living' : Jack B. Yeats and the Irish revolution / R.E. Foster.
Summary: This book is to coincide with the National Gallery's exhibition of the same name. With chapters from leading Irish historians, including Roy Foster, Tom Dunne and Róisín Kennedy, 'Creating History' delivers fascinating assessments that situate the Easter Rising and Ireland's claim to independence through the historical significance and aesthetic value of Ireland's major artistic works.Summary: Upon leaving the National Gallery in Dublin during Easter week 1916, its registrar James Stephens was struck by 'the rumour of death and war' that gripped the air. Now, over 100 hundred years on, the National Gallery evaluates these seismic historical events in its principal contribution to Ireland's Decade of Centenaries in both a powerful new exhibition and this wonderfully illustrated book.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-288) and index.

'If the artist be as national as the minstral' : Irish history of display / Brendan Rooney -- Testimony -- History painting, painting history : the depiction of conflict in Irish art / Ruth Kennedy -- Conflict -- Creating order? Painting the crowd in nineteenth=century Ireland / Mary Jane Boland -- Assembly -- The marriage of Strongbow and Aoife : entertaining history in the interests of the state / Tom Dunne -- Art and uncertainty : painting in Ireland 1912-1932 / Roisin Kennedy -- Allegory -- The persistence of vision : picturing eviction in the nineteenth century / Emily Mark-Fitzgerald -- Lamentation -- 'The occupation of living' : Jack B. Yeats and the Irish revolution / R.E. Foster.

This book is to coincide with the National Gallery's exhibition of the same name. With chapters from leading Irish historians, including Roy Foster, Tom Dunne and Róisín Kennedy, 'Creating History' delivers fascinating assessments that situate the Easter Rising and Ireland's claim to independence through the historical significance and aesthetic value of Ireland's major artistic works.

Upon leaving the National Gallery in Dublin during Easter week 1916, its registrar James Stephens was struck by 'the rumour of death and war' that gripped the air. Now, over 100 hundred years on, the National Gallery evaluates these seismic historical events in its principal contribution to Ireland's Decade of Centenaries in both a powerful new exhibition and this wonderfully illustrated book.

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