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Irish Art Books

An array of books on Irish art from across the centuries.
A close up of an intricately detailed stained glass piece. A saint with a blue halo, crown and red clothes looks towards the viewer. The title is at the bottom in stylised white letters.

Dark Beauty
A bar down the left shows a Celtic style illustration of a bird with an intricate background. The wing from the bird overlaps onto the plain cream of the rest of the cover. The title is below this wing in thin, green capital letters.

Divine Illumination: The Oratory of the Sacred Heart, Dún Laoghaire
A black background with a large, multi-panel blue toned stain glass window on the left. The title is on the right in thin, white letters.

Exiled From Ireland- Harry Clarke's Geneva Window
A close up painting of an older man’s face, Seamus Heaney. There are visible brush strokes. The title is across the bottom in white capital letters.

Great Irish Lives
A lush, intricately detailed illustration of a man in yellow reclining on cushions. He is surrounded by blue walls and a peacock-like bird sits to his left. The title takes up the centre in white capital letters.

Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
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The white cover is split in two. In the top half is an intricately detailed illustration in jewel tones of people draped in sheer, flowing cloth. In the bottom half is the title in gold capital letters.

Harry Clarke and Artistic Visions of the New Irish State
A black cover with a black and white line illustration across the bottom. A woman stands with a dog as a sun rises in the background. The title and subtitle are in white in the top half.

Harry Clarke’s War: Illustrations for Ireland’s Memorial Records, 1914-1918
A flat painting of a cliff path beside a beach with small shacks and changing huts. It’s primarily in shades of orange, brown and green. The title is in the top right in white.

Harry Kernoff: The Little Genius
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A traditional landscape painting of manicured trees and grass. A large, white, grand house is in the centre background. The title takes up the top left corner.

Irish Paintings in The National Gallery of Ireland, Vol 1
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A classical painting of a well dressed man holding sheets of architectural plans and a pencil. The title is in gold capital letters in the bottom right.

James Gandon and His Times
A painting of a mountain in shadow leading down to the shore of a lake illuminated by the sun. The title is in the top left in yellow.

Making their Mark: Irish Painter-Etchers 1880-1930
A painting of a man dressed in black and white writing a letter on a table with an intricate red cloth. The title is on the bottom left in white.

National Gallery of Ireland Essential Guide
A painting of three men. Judas leans forward to kiss the cheek of a passive Jesus, while a man flees to the left. An armour clad arm reaches out to grab Jesus. The title is on the bottom left in white and yellow.

National Gallery of Ireland: Grandes œuvres de la Collection (French)
A painting of three men. Judas leans forward to kiss the cheek of a passive Jesus, while a man flees to the left. An armour clad arm reaches out to grab Jesus. The title is on the bottom left in white and yellow.

National Gallery of Ireland: Highlights of the Collection
A painting of three men. Judas leans forward to kiss the cheek of a passive Jesus, while a man flees to the left. An armour clad arm reaches out to grab Jesus. The title is on the bottom left in white and yellow.

National Gallery of Ireland: Höhepunkte Der Sammlung (German)
A painting of three men. Judas leans forward to kiss the cheek of a passive Jesus, while a man flees to the left. An armour clad arm reaches out to grab Jesus. The title is on the bottom left in white and yellow.

National Gallery of Ireland: Obras Destacadas de la Colección (Spanish)
A painting of three men. Judas leans forward to kiss the cheek of a passive Jesus, while a man flees to the left. An armour clad arm reaches out to grab Jesus. The title is on the bottom left in white and yellow.

National Gallery of Ireland: Opere Salienti Della Collezione (Italian)
A painting of three men. Judas leans forward to kiss the cheek of a passive Jesus, while a man flees to the left. An armour clad arm reaches out to grab Jesus. The title is on the bottom left in white and yellow.

National Gallery of Ireland: Togha agus Rogha an Bhailiúcháin (Irish)
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An impressionist painting of a street with tall red brick buildings and Georgian doors. The title is in the centre in white.

Peter Pearson: Of Sea & Stone
A painting of a man and woman sitting in opposite directions with a landscape of trees and a cloudy sky behind them. The title is across the top in navy.

Seán Keating: Art, Politics and Building the Irish Nations
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A close up of a flat medieval style drawing of a man with a halo behind his head. The title is in along the right in thin, white letters.

The Book of Kells Official Guide
A colourful, stylised illustration of the front of Trinity College. The title is in a green box at the top centre in thin, white capital letters.

The Dublin Art Book
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A white cover with an image in the centre. The image is a painting of white, red, yellow, blue and black squares and rectangles separated by black lines. The title is across the top in black.

The Gallery
A black and white photo of an older man, Francis Bacon, from the shoulders up. The title is across the bottom in large yellow letters.

The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon