A Western Town at Night
Date: 1925 Dimensions: 35.5 × 23cm Medium: Oil on panel Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Presented by James A. Healy in New York to Sligo County Library and Museum. In memory of his parents, John and Catherine Healy in 1966. Description: The Western Town referred to in the title is almost
Singing “The beautiful Picture”
Date: 1925 Dimensions: 35.5 × 23cm Medium: Oil on panel Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Presented by James A. Healy in New York to Sligo County Library and Museum. In memory of his parents, John and Catherine Healy in 1966. Description: A man stands on a summer’s evening holding a ballad
Communicating with Prisoners
Date: c. 1924 Dimensions: 59 × 44cm Medium: Oil on canvas Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Purchased by public subscription from the Capuchin Annual in 1962 Description: This is one of Yeats’s most important depictions of life in Dublin in the early years of the Free State. A group of women
Shruna Meala, Rosses Point
Date: 1923 Dimensions: 35 × 22.5cm Medium: Oil on panel Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Purchased by Sligo County Library and Museum in 1963.
Singing The Minstrel Boy
Date: 1923 Dimensions: 59.5 × 44cm Medium: Oil on canvas Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Gift to Sligo County Library and Museum in 1963, from Dr. Thomas McGreevy.
An Island Funeral
Date: 1923 Dimensions: 91.5 × 61cm Medium: Oil on canvas Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Purchased by public subscription from the Capuchin Annual in 1962 Description: This sharply observed painting depicts a coffin being brought from the remote Blasket Islands, off the West Kerry coast, to the mainland for burial in