First profiled in Irish Arts Review in 1991, Hughie O’Donoghue acknowledges the important contribution made by art history on his work to Marianne O’Kane

Over the past two decades, Hughie O’Donoghue’s work has assumed epic proportions in terms of scale, treatment and subject matter (Fig 1). Although primarily a painter, O’Donoghue is also a superb draughtsman and printmaker. Internationally renowned, he is currently one of Ireland’s most individual and ambitious practitioners and one who has a profound respect for the discipline of painting