DIRTY WAR AND ITS PRACTITIONERS

By Brian Hanley In April 1955 the artist Seán Keating presented a new work to Dublin’s Municipal (now Hugh Lane) Gallery. It was a portrait of an ‘Old’ IRA man who had played a leading role in the war against the British in Dublin between 1919 and 1921. Speaking at the unveiling, the man’s former ... Read more

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