The Funeral Of Harry Boland by Jack B. Yeats (1871 - 1957)

The Funeral of Harry Boland

Date: 1922 Dimensions: 91.5 × 61cm Medium: Oil on canvas Collection: The Niland Collection Provenance: Purchased by public subscription from the Capuchin Annual in 1962 Description: This view of the funeral of republican, Harry Boland (1884-1922) was, according to Jack B. Yeats, the only visual record of the event. Cameras

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Sailor Home From The Sea by Jack B. Yeats (1871 - 1957)

Sailor home from the sea

Date: 1912 Dimensions: 22.5 × 35cm Medium: Oil on panel Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Presented to Sligo County Library and Museum, 1965 by James A. Healy as a memorial to his parents John and Catherine Healy. Description: This early oil painting is typical of the type of work Jack Yeats

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The Toy Theatre by Jack B. Yeats (1871 - 1957)

The Toy Theatre

Date: c. 1910 Dimensions: 27 × 37.5cm Medium: Watercolour Collection: The Niland Collection Provenance: Purchased by Sligo County Library and Museum from Dawson Gallery, 1964 Description: A young boy in an old fashioned costume is playing with a cut-out theatre. His youth is accentuated by his having to stand on

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An Island Man by Jack B. Yeats (1871 - 1957)

An Island Man

Date: 1906 Dimensions: 23 × 30.5cm Medium: Pen, ink and watercolour Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Presented to Sligo County Library and Museum, 1966 by James A. Healy as a memorial to his parents John and Catherine Healy. Description: This is the original drawing for the frontispiece of John Millington Synge’s

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Untitled, Interior Of A Shop by Jack B. Yeats (1871 - 1957)

Untitled, Interior of a shop

Date: c. 1905 Dimensions: 29 × 23.5cm Medium: Pen and ink Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Purchased from the Dawson Gallery in 1970 Description: Jack B. Yeats recognized the central role of the shop in Irish country life. His 1912 book Life in the West of Ireland featured an illustration entitled,

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A Political Meeting (In The West Of Ireland) by Jack B. Yeats (1871 - 1957)

A Political Meeting (In the West of Ireland)

  Date: 1905. Dimensions: 71.5 × 53.25cm. Medium: Watercolour and pencil. Collection: Niland Collection. Provenance: Presented to Sligo County Library and Museum by James A. Healy in 1965, as a memorial to his parents John and Catherine Healy. Description: On 11 February 1905 the Lily of Lough Gill branch of

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