Peter Murray remembers the talented artist, Robert Gregory, son of Lady Gregory of Coole Park, whose surviving works are testament to unfulfilled promise
His Death’, the writer has Robert reflect on his life: [ balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In another poem, ‘Shepherd and Goatherd’, Yeats cnttcized Robert for not doing more to preserve Coole Park, but was more magnanimous in ‘In Memory of Major Robert Gregory’, describing the aviator as ‘our perfect man’. As a painter of some talent, sportsman and flyer, Gregory was indeed a remarkable individual.
The new Lexicon is a worthy member of Dublin’s distinguished group of public libraires, writes James Howley in his appraisal of the controversial new building.
Woven from original designs by Peter Paul Rubens, the Decius Mus tapestries have been reinstalled in Kilkenny Castle following major conservation in Madrid, writes Jane Fenlon
It is the implication of something beyond a simple landscape that makes Martin Gale’s art so compelling, writes Alison FitzGerald as his exhibition continues at Taylor Galleries, Dublin