Art Ó Murnaghan’s major achievement was the merging of the antiquarian and political worlds, writes Sandra Heise ahead of a new book on his life’s work.
Between 1924 and 1951, one of the most brilliant works of visual art of the Celtic Revival was created by a self-taught and unassuming artist called Art Ó Murnaghan. This work was entitled Leabhar na hAiséirghe or The Book of the Resurrection. The twenty-seven vellum pages of the illuminated manuscript were intended as Ó Murnaghan’s offering to his country, honouring the memory of the dead of the Irish independence struggle and Civil War.
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