Hilary Pyle pays tribute to May Guinness who joined the artistic vanguard in Paris and went on to distinguish herself as a nurse during the Great War
Writers about 20th-century Irish art always cite May Guinness (1863–1955) as one of the initiators of the Modern Movement in Ireland; and yet, unlike her younger contemporaries, Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett, who worked actively in Dublin to promote such a movement, she was, essentially, a loner.
Stephanie McBride reflects on the extraordinary life’s work of Arthur Fields, the last of the street photographers
All around the globe, conflicts have and continue to shape the land and their inhabitants’; Elizabeth Magill explores the flipside of the buccolic in conversation with Brian McAvera.