Whipping The Herring: Survival and Celebration in 19th Century Irish Art

Published to coincide with the exhibition of the same name at the Crawford Art Gallery Whipping the Herring features sections:

• Realism versus romanticism in framing national identity

• The representation of everyday life in Irish painting of the 19th century: The European Context

• Rural life through artists' eyes : an interdisciplinary approach

• The dark side of the Irish landscape : depictions of the rural poor

• Colour plates : whipping the herring : survival and celebration in nineteenth-century Irish art

• Engravings : representations of ireland in the 'Illustrated London News'

Author: Peter Murray

Contributors: Julian Campbell, Claudia Kinmonth, Tom Dunne

Format: Hardback

Size: 24.5 x 22.5 cm, 264 pages

Publisher: Gandon Editions, Crawford Art Gallery

ISBN: 9780948034313