Municipal Art Gallery for Galway

Galway's role in creating the Irish renaissance in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is well documented. Edward Martyn, WB Yeats, JM Synge and George Moore, under the auspices of Lady Gregory, met in Coole Park on the outskirts of this city to forge a path for a cultural revival that brought about huge changes in framing our national identity. The visual arts were at the forefront of that vision. Artists have responded since then, from Jack Yeats to Sean Keating, Lilian Davidson, Arthur Armstrong, Elizabeth Rivers and Gerard Dillon, right down to those working today.