Select Bibliography of Irish Art and Design (1997)

  • Allen, John Romilly, Celtic Art in Pagan and Christian Times (1904).
  • Arnold, Bruce, The Art Atlas of Britain and Ireland (Lon:Viking 1991), 489pp.
  • Bowe, Nicola Gordon, ed., Art and the National Dream: the Search for Vernacular expression in turn-of-the-century Design (Blackrock:IAP 1993), 213pp.
  • Benington, Jonathan, Roderick O’Conor (IAO 1992), 247pp. [biography-catalogue]
  • Coffey, Distribution of Gold Lunulae in Ireland and NW Europe, PRIA xxvii, C.,p.251
  • Coleridge, A. and D. Fitz-Gerald, ‘Eighteenth Century Irish Furniture’, in Apollo 84 (1966), pp.276-89.
  • Curran, C.P., Dublin decorative Plaster Work of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century (London 1967)
  • Curran, C.P., [on Dublin plaster] in Journal of Royal Soc. of Antiquarians of Ireland, lxx (1940), pp.1-56
  • Crookshank, Anne, ‘Irish Sculpture from 1750 to 1860’, in Apollo, 84 (1966), pp.306-13.
  • Crookshank, Anne, and the Knight of Glin, Irish Portraits 1600-1860 (London 1969)
  • Crookshank, Anne, and the Knight of Glin, The Watercolours of Ireland: works on paper in pencil. pastel and paint c.1600-1914 (Barrie & Jenkins 1994), 328pp.
  • Dalsimer, Adele M., ed., Visualising Ireland: National Identity and Pictorial Tradition (Faber and Faber, 1993).
  • Edelstein, Terri, ed., Imagining the Irish Past: Celtic Revival 1840-1940 (Chicago 1992), American essays in catalogue of exhibition David and Alfred Smart Museum at Chicago, with 300 Irish and Celtic ornaments; 6 essays, and 80 ills.
  • Fallon, Brian, Irish Art: 1830-1990 (Appletree 1994)
  • Forrer, L., Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, 8 vols (1904-23)
  • Frazer, W., Journal of Royal Soc. of Antiquarians of Ireland, 17 (188?), pp.443-66, 608-61; 18 (1887), 189-208, 313-6; 23 (1893), 7-26 [on medallists]
  • Gordon Bowe, Nicola, Wilhelmina Geddes, Harry Clarke and their part in the Arts and Crafts Movement of Ireland, in The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts [DAPA], No. 8, (Miami 1988). [typescript copy supplied by author].
  • Gordon-Bowe, Nicola, The Dublin Arts and Crafts Movement 1885-1930 (Edinburgh 1985); also ‘Women and the Artst and Crafts Revival in Ireland, c.1886-1930, in Irish Women Artists, NGI (Dublin 1987).
  • Gordon Bowe, Nicola, ed., Art and the National Dream: The Search for Vernacular Expression in Turn-of-the-Century Design (Blackrock IAP 1993), [213]224pp.
  • Guinness, Desmond, ‘Decorative Plasterwork in Ireland’, in Apollo, 84 (1966), pp.260-67.
  • Henry, Francoise, Irish Art During the Viking Invasions (London 1967)
  • Henry, Francoise, Irish Art in the Early Christian Period ([1st ed. 1940]; London 1965)
  • Henry, Francoise, Irish Art in the Romanesque Period (London 1970).
  • Henry, Francoise, Irish Art, 3 vols. (1965-70) [Hyland Oct. 1995]
  • Hickey, Des and Gus Smith, A Paler Shade of Green: Study of Dominant Expatriates of Irish Art Scene (Frewin 1972).
  • John Hutchinson, James Arthur O’Connor [Cat. 1985 Exhibition] (NGI 1985)
  • Kennedy, S.B., Irish Art & Modernism (Inst. Irish Studies 1991).
  • Kennedy, S.B., Frank McKelvey, a painter of his time (IAP 1993)
  • Kennedy, Brian, and Raymond Gillespie, eds, Art Into History (Town House 1994), 240pp. [contribs. Sighle Bhreathach-Lynch; Marie Bourke; Margaret Crawford; W H Crawford; Marie Davis; P J duffy; Mairead Dunlevy; Edward McParland; Fergus O’Ferrall; GaryOwens; Alistair Rowan]
  • Kinmonth, Claudia, Irish Country Furniture 1700-1950 (Yale UP 1993), 249pp.
  • le Brocquy, Louis, Irish Landscape (Gandon Eds. 1992, 99pp. 35 watercolours — which the artist calls ‘coloured water on white paper — mostly of Liffey and Beare Peninsula; includes interview with George Morgan revealing that they are painted in studio.
  • Lives of Irish Artists (NGI/Unipub 1991), c.280pp.; on Osborne, Yeats, Orpen, Henry, Hone, Leech, Mildred Butler, Roderic O’Connor — about 35 pp. on each.
  • Jacobsthal, Imagery in Early Celtic Art (1941), 22pp., 17 plates.
  • Kennedy, Brian, & Raymond Gillespie, eds., Ireland: Art into History (Dublin: Town House; Colorado: Roberts Rinehart Publ. 1994), 240pp.
  • Maxwell, C[onstantia], ‘Wedgewood Company in Dublin’, in The Irish Times, 23, 24, 26 June 1936.
  • Meehan, Aidan, Maze Patterns [Celtic Design] (Thames & Hudson 1993), 160pp.
  • Murphy, Patrick, et al., Irish Women Artists from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day (Dublin: NGI, Mun. Gall., Dublin; DHG 1987), 208pp. [contrribs. incl. Anne O. cruickshank, Jeanne Sheehy, Shirley Armstrong Duffy, Liz Sheridan, Julian Campbell, Nicola Gordon Bowe, E. Charles Nelson, Bruce Arnold, Brian Kennedy, Brian Fallon, Dorothy Walker, Aidan Dunne, Joan Fowler.
  • O’Doherty, Brian, The Irish Imagination 1959-1971 (1971), in association with Rosc [Municipal Gallery Exhib. Cat.]
  • O’Dwyer, Frederick, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (Cork UP 1995), ill.
  • Larmour, Paul, The Arts and Crafts Movement in Ireland (Belfast:Friar’s Bush Press 1992), 240pp., 250 b/w phots.
  • Reinach, Saloman, ‘Les Croissant d’or Irlandais’, in Revue Celtique, XXI, p.166: ‘un veritable Eldorado.’
  • Richardson, Hilary and John Scarry, Introduction to Irish High Crosses (1st end. 1990).
  • Sheehy, Jeanne, The Rediscovery of Ireland’s Past: The Celtic Revival 1830-1930 (London: Thames & Hudson 1980) [‘Looking back over the period between 1830 and 1930 one is forced to the conclusion that there was no distinctively Irish style, and that the Irish Revival did not pass on a living tradition in art as it did in literature’]
  • Smith, Alister, ed., 1993 Irish Arts Review yearbook 1993 (Eton Enterprise 1993), 272pp.
    Snoddy, Theo, Dictionary of Irish Artists, 20th Century (1996; new edn. Merlin 2002) [complementing Strickland]
  • Strickland, Walter G., A Dictionary of Irish Artists, 2 vols (Dublin 1913; IAP facs. rep. 1989])
  • Van der Hagen painted scenery for a performance of Cephalus and Procris in Smock alley Theatre Dublin in 1733. [cited in WB Stanford, Ireland and the Classical Tradition, IAP 1976; this ed. 1984; p.29]
  • Went, A.E. J., The Medals of the Royal Dublin Society (Dublin 1973).
  • Westropp, Michael Seymour Dudley, Irish Glass (Dublin 1920, rep. 1978).
  • White, James, and M Wynne, Irish Stained Glass (Dub:Furrow Trust/Gill 1963)
  • Willis, Geoffrey, English and Irish Glass (Lon:Guinness Signatures 1968); also listed as: do., … six booklets from a ser. of sixteen on the subject (Guildford, Surrey, Guinness Superlatives Ltd. 1968).
  • Young, Susan[s], The Work of Angels, Masterpieces of Celtic Metalwork 6-9th C, with contrib. by Paul T Craddock, Daibhi O’Cronin, Raghnall Ó Floinn, Michael Ryan and Leslie Webster (1989)

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