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Ceramics for the Home during the Celtic Revival
Art pottery was made in Ireland during the nineteenth century, in response to a demand for art industry products, from consumers influenced by the ideals of the Arts and Crafts Movement. It also reflected...
Entangled Histories
This book seeks to highlight some of the difficult imperial histories and legacies embedded in the Ethnographic Collection of the National Museum of Ireland and enable dialogue with source communities...
Lady of the Peacocks
This beautifully illustrated work examines the career and work of watercolor painter Mildred Anne Butler (1858–1941). It is the first in-depth examination of this artist’s work and career, and her...
Searching for Thaddeus
Thaddeus was a fifteenth-century bishop of Cork who was honoured in both Ireland and Italy. He led a remarkable life – he was made bishop twice but never actually served as such, and was beatified in 1895 – but is now all but forgotten.
A Sketchbook of Edinburgh
In this evocative book Iain and Anne Fraser take the reader, both visitor and resident, on a personal journey through the centre of one of the world’s most unforgettable cities. Working with four talented local artists they reflect the character and cultural history of Edinburgh through 80 pages and 150 beautiful and original illustrations.
Callum Innes – Tondos
A publication documenting acclaimed Scottish artist Callum Innes’s Tondos––round paintings that continue a long tradition in art history.For over thirty years, celebrated painter Callum Innes...
For The Love of Ireland's Buildings
A personal selection by artist Michael Lunt of over 120 drawings and paintings from fifty years of the Roadstone Calendar, reflecting the artist’s love of Ireland's buildings and engineering in our towns and landscapes.
Andrew Cranston – Never a Joiner
A publication devoted to Scottish artist Andrew Cranston’s book-cover paintings.Andrew Cranston (b.1969, Hawick, Scotland; lives and works in Glasgow) is a painter-storyteller, a way of working that...
Welsh Saints from Welsh Churches
A study of the imagery of Welsh saints across the centuries, in the form of stained glass, sculpture and painting. Including an overview and analysis, followed by sections on c.40 individual Welsh saints. Highly illustrated with 500 of the author’s own photographs, in full color throughout.
Old Ways New Roads
In this book a number of acclaimed experts explore how the Scottish landscape was variously documented, evaluated, planned and imagined in words and images. As well as a fascinating insight into the experience of travellers and tourists, it also considers how they impacted on the experience of the Scottish people themselves.
