The gate lodge to the big house

This book succeeds The Painters of Ireland, published in 1978, which established the Knight of Glin and Anne Crookshank as supreme authorities on the subject.

The update adds a further 20 years and takes account of an abundance of new research; but it remains what they describe as ‘a general survey on traditional lines’, a simple, chronological, account in what some critics of their first collaboration disapprovingly called ‘a conversational style’. What a relief, will surely be most readers’ reaction.

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The authors have no delusions of grandeur. They quote the artist and critic, Brian O’Doherty, who has described Irish art as ‘the gate lodge beside the big house of Irish Writing’. The applied arts have features specific to Ireland, but its painting is essentially in the European tradition and the authors make no claim for an Irish school.