Angela Griffith considers the hand-coloured prints of the Cuala Press and how that organisation helped create a ‘modern tradition’ for Irish women artists
Under the directorship of Elizabeth Corbet Yeats (1868–1940), the accomplishments of the short-lived Dun Emer Press (fl. 1902–1908), followed by the Cuala Press (1908–1946), were exceptional in the history of private-press printing in Ireland. Both presses would enjoy national and international recognition for consistently high standards of letterpress printing and design, and their promotion of contemporary Irish writing.
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Daniel Breen selects a sculpture by Seamus Murphy in the collection of Cork Public Museum
Daniel Maclise’s portraits of women, with their Romantic mood and understated symbolism, are among the best of his work, writes Julian Campbell
Philip McEvansoneya considers how the Trench Collection of Tibetan art in the National Museum of Ireland was acquired by the collector, and the museum, and asks if it’s time this ethnographic display was made more accessible to the public
