A time and a place
Subtitle: two centuries of Irish social life
By: [edited by Brendan Rooney].
Contributors: Rooney, Brendan.; National Gallery of Ireland.
Publisher: National Gallery of Ireland
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Dublin]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781904288176
Subjects: Painting, Irish -- Exhibitions.; Ireland -- Social life and customs -- In art -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: Through the lens of art, this book focuses on Irish people engaged in recreational activities across the last two centuries. Arranged thematically, it covers sport, music and dance, visits to the beach, religious observance and pilgrimage, theatre, circus, calendar customs, fairs and markets, pubs, clubs, and parades. The aim is to investigate the lives of Irish people away from work and to celebrate the richness and diversity of Irish society across class, community, geography, and generation, as recorded by some of the finest artists practising in the country. the book brings together works by some of Ireland's most accomplished figurative painters of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, including Richard Brydges Beechey, William Conor, William van der Hagen, Paul Henry, Sean Keating, Harry Kernoff, Charles Lamb, John Lavery, Richard Thomas Moynan, James Arthur O'Connor, William Osborne, Joseph Tudor, and Jack B. Yeats. --Publisher.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland, 18 Oct., 2006-28 Jan., 2007--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-167) and index.