Brian Lynch examines the work of Eamonn O’Doherty, whose style captures the spirit of his era
It could be said without undue exaggeration that the work of Eamonn O’Doherty is the best-known of any living Irish artist (Fig 2). He may also be, as far as name-recognition is concerned, the least famous. To be the creator of some of the most readily identifiable icons of late 20th-century Ireland and yet to remain almost anonymous in the midst of his creation is a curious fate. Being hidden in plain sight, as O’Doherty is, constitutes a complex series of ironies that reveals a good deal about how Irish society thinks of itself
