Misfortune compelled Grace Gifford to assume a political role, yet her true passion for the theatre emerges in her witty drawings, writes Hilary Pyle
Hilary Pyle takes a fresh look at John Butler Yeats, the patriarch of Ireland’s leading artistic family.
Hilary Pyle remembers James Stephens, a writer of stature, whose account of the Easter Rising while Registrar at the National Gallery comes into focus in the current display at the Gallery
Hilary Pyle remembers Sarah Purser’s retrospective of Nathaniel Hone in 1901 and its far-reaching role in raising the profile of Irish contemporary art
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
‘The world changed for me’. Hilary Pyle remembers Melanie le Brocquy’s realisation that sculpture was to be her métier when she discovered the sculpture studio at art school
Hilary Pyle recalls the artist Hilda Roberts, two-time winner of the RDS Taylor Art Award, whose talents were apparent from an early age
Artist Frances Kelly didn’t aim for exact likenesses in her portraits of people or flowers, but rather for some inner, more abstract, significance, writes Hilary Pyle
150 years since the birth of Jack B Yeats, Hilary Pyle considers the concept of memory embedded in his work
Barbara Warren’s work, rather than startling or imposing on the eye, invites the spectator to come in, writes Hilary Pyle
While she valued her Irish roots, artist Hilda van Stockum found that she could express herself best in the Dutch genre of still life, writes Hilary Pyle
Flora Mitchell was a passionate recorder of vanishing city architecture, writes Hilary Pyle
Hilary Pyle looks at the life and work of artist Estella Solomons, whose exhibition is on view at the National Gallery of Ireland
Hilary Pyle explores the formation of the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland and the role played by its founding member, Sarah Purser
In many pictures Harriet Kirkwood seems to be telling a story, and the story is life itself, which infuses her painting, writes Hilary Pyle
Hilary Pyle remembers Maria Taylor, a painter interested in people, in their occupations and ways of life