Irish American Cultural Institute’s O’MALLEY COLLECTION OF 20th-CENTURY IRISH ART

essay by Paul M O’Reilly

ISBN 978 0946846 603    84 pages (paperback)   22.5x24.5cm     58 illus    artists index

This publication on the IACI O’Malley Collection of contemporary Irish art at the University of Limerick features works by 20 of Ireland’s best-known artists, including Jack B Yeats, Evie Hone, Mainie Jellett and Louis le Brocquy, amongst others, each painting with an individual text and an artist’s biography.

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"More than two decades ago, Helen Hooker O’Malley Roelofs entrusted a portion of her extensive art collection to the Irish American Cultural Institute. Her gift of over 400 pieces to the IACI honoured her late husband Ernie O’Malley, and was subsequently named the IACI O’Malley Art Collection. For many years the collection was spread across multiple locations in Ireland, but the collection finally found a singular home on loan at Plassey House, University of Limerick. The IACI O’Malley Art Collection is an outstanding collection of art from around the world. In particular, the Irish section includes work by many fine artists such as Louis le Brocquy, Jack B Yeats, Gerard Dillon and Paul Henry. The IACI, in partnership with the University of Limerick, intends that the permanent exhibition of the O’Malley Collection will help share these magnificent artworks with the Irish people and all those who visit the university."

— from the foreword by John P Walsh, IACI