"The story of religion in Ireland is very complicated," Fitzpatrick said. O'Neill would die a decade later of wounds suffered in the Battle of the Boyne, in which Protestant forces defeated Catholic. Wright painted a young Ulster nobleman, Sir Neil O'Neill, in red tights, sword drawn, an alert Irish wolfhound by his side. A 1790 portrait of a Catholic bishop was a provocative act, Fitzpatrick explained, but not as much so as a 1680 portrait by the Catholic Englishman John Michael Wright. Painting takes a major role in the exhibition, including works by Irishmen Hugh Douglas Hamilton and George Barret and by the Frenchman Jacques-Louis David and the American Gilbert Stuart, who plied his trade for six years in Dublin before returning to America and renown in capturing George Washington.Ī ghostly image of a staging of Macbeth" helps tell the story of the performing arts, while a Dublin city and suburbs map is both work of art and geographic touchstone. Music, a combination of commissioned and period pieces, plays in the background.
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