‘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 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
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 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 takes a fresh look at John Butler Yeats, the patriarch of Ireland’s leading artistic family.
Misfortune compelled Grace Gifford to assume a political role, yet her true passion for the theatre emerges in her witty drawings, writes Hilary Pyle