Art Ó Murnaghan’s major achievement was the merging of the antiquarian and political worlds, writes Sandra Heise ahead of a new book on his life’s work.
To mark the occasion of Sir Denis Mahon’s birthday and to honour his contribution to art history, Fionnuala Croke recounts some defining moments from his remarkable career.
‘Contrary to common assumption, painters in the Islamic world frequently portrayed the Prophet Muhammad’, writes Serpil Bagci in this assessment of a number of Ottoman treasures from the Chester Beatty Library
“One of the great treasures of the Library in Trinity College Dublin are the Annals of Loch Cé which were compiled for Brian Mac Diarmada of Moylurg, Co Roscommon in 1588/89 and contain the history of the leading families in north Connacht from AD 1014. A portion of this original manuscript covering the period of 1568/90 found its way to the British Library in 1766 where it has remained ever since. Wouldn’t it be holy and a wholesome thought for some inspired authority to bring together the two manuscripts of these annals? Here, Bernadette Cunningham discusses the importance of the Annals of Loch Cé.”
An important chapter in the history of Irish scriptorium reached a happy conclusion when a facsimile of Macregol’s Gospel, the original of which is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, was unveiled in Birr, County Offaly. Margaret Hogan reports
Michael Healy’s diary pages from the Easter 1916 vividly convey the chaos and confusion on Dublin’s streets in the aftermath of the Rising and give witness to the destruction of the RHA’s headquarters, Academy House, writes David Carron
Peter Harbison examines the evidence for a reappraisal of a manuscript in St Gall
Bernard Meehan explores a thousand-year-old Irish psalter on which new multispectral imaging has revealed details lost for centuries
The realm of faith illustrated in the Book of Kells can be elusive to modern audiences; however, a new study by Bernard Meehan provides valuable insights into this peerless manuscript