Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks

Fintan O'Toole

• Publisher: Royal Irish Academy
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781908997029
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Art

100 artworks have been chosen for this beautifully illustrated book to represent each year from 1916-2015. They trace the story of Ireland's creative output from the revolutionary period until today. The story that emerges through these 100 works is not one of artists gradually finding their place of honour in the republic. Especially in the visual arts it is, on the contrary, a story of never-ending argument, of works that are disliked, rejected, fought over, even painted over. Instead of the artists supporting the state and the state supporting the artists, it is a case of the artists challenging and upsetting the community and the community looking warily at the artists. This is what makes Irish art, at its best, so edgy, so embattled and so vital.They were compiled by the Royal Irish Academy in partnership with The Irish Times. The visual artworks were chosen from the RIA's research project the five volume publication, Art and Architecture of Ireland. Most artists and writers featured in the series have been profiled in the RIA's Dictionary of Irish Biography which outlines the lives at home and overseas of prominent men and women born in Ireland, north and south, and the noteworthy Irish careers of those born outside Ireland.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Editor’s note
• 1916 A portrait of the artist as a young man JAMES JOYCE
• 1917 Men of the west SEÁN KEATING
• 1918 Seacht mbua an Éirí Amach PÁDRAIC Ó CONAIRE
• 1919 The signing of peace in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles, 28th June 1919 WILLIAM ORPEN
• 1920 The lobster fisherman at dusk PAUL HENRY
• 1921 Back to Methuselah GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
• 1922 Ulysses JAMES JOYCE
• 1923 Decoration MAINIE JELLETT
• 1924 The eve of St Agnes HARRY CLARKE
• 1925 Monument to William Gladstone JOHN HUGHES
• 1926 The plough and the stars SEAN O’CASEY
• 1927 Ardnacrusha hydroelectric scheme THOMAS MCLAUGHLIN AND ESB
• 1928 The Sam Maguire cup HOPKINS & HOPKINS
• 1929 An tOileánach TOMÁS Ó CRIOMHTHAIN
• 1930 High treason, Court of Criminal Appeal: the trial of Roger Casement SIR JOHN LAVERY
• 1931 Guests of the nation FRANK O’CONNOR
• 1932 Skywriting over Dublin EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS
• 1933 The winding stair W.B. YEATS
• 1934 Devoted ladies MOLLY KEANE
• 1935 The death of Cúchulainn OLIVER SHEPPARD
• 1936 Katie Roche TERESA DEEVY
• 1937 Come gather round me Parnellites JACK B. YEATS
• 1938 Pray for the wanderer KATE O’BRIEN
• 1939 Irish Pavilion, New York World’s Fair MICHAEL SCOTT
• 1940 Tinkers’ encampment: the blood of Abel JACK B. YEATS
• 1941 An béal bocht MYLES NA GCOPALEEN
• 1942 The great hunger PATRICK KAVANAGH
• 1943 The Three Graces GABRIEL HAYES
• 1944 Prayer before birth LOUIS MACNEICE
• 1945 The demon lover and other stories ELIZABETH BOWEN
• 1946 The Becker wives MARY LAVIN
• 1947 Bust of James Connolly HILARY HERON
• 1948 Busáras MICHAEL SCOTT
• 1949 Cré na cille MÁIRTÍN ÓCADHAIN
• 1950 Island people GERARD DILLON
• 1951 A family LOUIS LE BROCQUY
• 1952 En attendant Godot SAMUEL BECKETT
• 1953 Cape and gown SYBIL CONNOLLY
• 1954 The quare fellow BRENDAN BEHAN
• 1955 Aer Lingus summer timetable GUUS MELAI
• 1956 Margadh na saoire MÁIRE MHAC AN TSAOI
• 1957 Irisches Tagebuch HEINRICH BÖLL
• 1958 Girl carrying grasses PATRICK SCOTT
• 1959 Sive JOHN B. KEANE
• 1960 Sheela-na-gig paintings BARRIE COOKE
• 1961 A whistle in the dark TOM MURPHY
• 1962 Ár ré dhearóil MÁIRTÍN Ó DIREÁIN
• 1963 The barracks JOHN MCGAHERN
• 1964 Wolfe Tone EDWARD DELANEY
• 1965 Cork County Hall PATRICK MCSWEENEY
• 1966 Dé Luain EOGHAN Ó TUAIRISC
• 1967 Aspen 5+6 BRIAN O’DOHERTY
• 1968 Viva Che JIM FITZPATRICK
• 1969 The táin THOMAS KINSELLA AND LOUIS LE BROCQUY
• 1970 Troubles J.G. FARRELL
• 1971 Línte liombó SEÁN Ó RÍORDÁIN
• 1972 Structure MICHAEL KANE
• 1973 Da HUGH LEONARD
• 1974 Christmas Eve MAEVE BRENNAN
• 1975 North SEAMUS HEANEY
• 1976 Northern Ireland, the 1,500th victim ROBERT BALLAGH
• 1977 Madonna Irlanda MICHEAL FARRELL
• 1978 Jim Larkin statue OISÍN KELLY
• 1979 Faith healer BRIAN FRIEL
• 1980 In her own image EAVAN BOLAND
• 1981 Belfast after Pollaiuolo CLIFFORD RAINEY
• 1982 The hunt by night DEREK MAHON
• 1983 Bligeard sráide MICHAEL DAVITT
• 1984 Celebration: the beginning of labour PAULINE CUMMINS
• 1985 Observe the sons of Ulster marching towards the Somme FRANK MCGUINNESS
• 1986 Reading the sky PAULA MEEHAN
• 1987 Pentecost STEWART PARKER
• 1988 The great wall of Kinsale EILÍS O’CONNELL
• 1989 Self portrait TONY O’MALLEY
• 1990 Madoc PAUL MULDOON
• 1991 Untitled: Philippe VACHER JAMES COLEMAN
• 1992 The butcher boy PATRICK MCCABE
• 1993 Paddy Clarke, ha, ha, ha RODDY DOYLE
• 1994 The country blooms, a garden and a grave ALANNA O’KELLY
• 1995 City drawings KATHY PRENDERGAST
• 1996 Portia Coughlan MARINA CARR
• 1997 Teacup DOROTHY CROSS
• 1998 Cead aighnis NUALA NÍ DHOMHNAILL
• 1999 True nature WILLIE DOHERTY
• 2000 N3 TOM DE PAOR
• 2001 Tawnanasool HUGHIE O’DONOGHUE
• 2002 The Agreement SHANE CULLEN
• 2003 New sexual lifestyles GERARD BYRNE
• 2004 The four directions ALICE MAHER
• 2005 The sea JOHN BANVILLE
• 2006 Mothers and sons COLM TÓIBÍN
• 2007 X-PO DEIRDRE O’MAHONY
• 2008 Molly Fox’s birthday DEIRDRE MADDEN
• 2009 New faculty at Bocconi University GRAFTON ARCHITECTS
• 2010 Room EMMA DONOGHUE
• 2011 Laundry LOUISE LOWE
• 2012 Commonage CULTURSTRUCTION, ROSIE LYNCH AND HOLLIE KEARNS
• 2013 Parallax SINÉAD MORRISSEY
• 2014 Saw Swee Hock student centre, London School of Economics O’DONNELL + TUOMEY
• 2015 Silent moves AIDEEN BARRY, EMMA O’KANE, RIDGEPOOL TRAINING CENTRE AND SCANNÁN TECHNOLOGIES
• Picture credits
• Selected bibliography
• Publisher’s note