You that would judge me, do not judge alone. This book or that, come to this hallowed place. Where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon. I had such friends. W B Yeats, 'The Municipal Gallery Revisited.
Artists have creating beautiful works of art in Ireland for a very long time.
We can go back as far as the Metholithic age, when beautiful stone carvings and workings in gold were created. But sadly there are no records or names of these artists. Ireland has produced so many talented artists over the centuries that we don't have the space here to look at them all. But we will look at some of the more recent ones. The Romantic Movement in Ireland brought us some great Irish artists, such as James Arthur O'Conner, who loved to draw scenes of the Wicklow countryside.