22 May - 04 Jul. 2010
Portraits from The Niland Collection
free / The Niland Collection features many portraits of important figures from early the twentieth century worlds of politics, art and literature. This show will bring together many of these portraits and will particularly focus on those who played important roles in shaping the emerging free-state. The exhibition will include portraits of Land League founder Michael Davitt, gun-runner and revolutionary Roger Casement, as well as writers such as WB Yeats and Padraic Colum, artists Jack B Yeats and Estella Solomons and important collectors and patrons Thomas Bodkin and Kathleen Goodfellow.