Major National Gallery of Ireland exhibition: ‘Creating history’, 8 October 2016-15 January 2017

From 8 October 2016 to 15 January 2017 the National Gallery of Ireland will host the major exhibition Creating history: stories of Ireland in art. This exhibition represents the Gallery’s principal contribution to the Decade of Centenaries. It brings together over 50 paintings spanning the seventeenth century to the 1930s, depicting or inspired by episodes in Irish history from the early fifth century arrival of St. Patrick to the establishment of the Free State; explore a selection of highlights from the exhibition.

A significant number of paintings in the exhibition are drawn from the Gallery’s collection, many of which have undergone extensive conservation in preparation for this show, such as Jan Wyck’s The Battle of the Boyne, Francis Wheatley’s The Dublin Volunteers on College Green, 4th November 1779 and Joseph Patrick Haverty’s The Monster Meeting at Clifden. Other artists represented in the exhibition include James Barry, Charles Russell, John Lavery, Richard Thomas Moynan, Seán Keating, and Jack B. Yeats, complemented by loans from public and private collections in Ireland and overseas. The exhibition is being accompanied by an extensive outreach programme: learn more here.