Marion McEnroy introduces the paintings of an early 19th-century Galway artist
A rare example of a painting from the Famine period, signed and dated in old Gaelic lettering: ‘Seaan O Ruanadh Sagart 1847’, was donated in February 1998 to the Department of Folklore of the National University of Ireland, Dublin by the late Mr Brian Foley of Athenry, county Galway. Research into the life and work of Father John Rooney (c. 1809-50) has revealed that in a relatively short period of activity as an artist he produced a number of works and was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Hibernian Academy
