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One of Ireland’s top visitor attractions housing the nation’s collection of European & Irish art. Admission to the permanent collection is free.
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The National Gallery of Ireland is located in the heart of Georgian Dublin. Opened in 1864, it houses the national collection of Irish and European fine art. The National Gallery of Ireland is a registered charity. CHY Number: 2345
Registered Charity Number (RCN): 2000302

11/06/2026

“Opportunities like this are so important for rural schools. It's bringing an opportunity to them, as opposed to getting them to travel two, three hours on a bus.”

Your Gallery at School is an ambitious outreach programme that brings the National Gallery of Ireland directly into classrooms and education settings around the country, kindly supported by SMBC Aviation Capital.

This year, the Your Gallery at School programme visited schools across the island of Ireland, from Kerry to Donegal and Dublin to Galway.

Pupils from Scoil Mhuire Aughnagarron National School in Co. Longford worked with artist Eimear Murphy on a unique project, tailored to their passion for sports! Watch our video below to find out more about this special programme.

🔗 Find out more about Your Gallery at School, supported by SMBC Aviation Capital: https://www.nationalgallery.ie/explore-and-learn/schools/your-gallery-school

08/06/2026

“The AIB Portrait Prize is a great opportunity for the Gallery to engage with contemporary practice. It really breathes life into the Gallery, into the collection here.”

⏰Just under one month left to enter the AIB Portrait Prize and AIB Young Portrait Prize 2026 – all submissions must be with us by 10pm on Friday 3 July. You’ll find all the information on how to enter both competitions linked below.

In this short film, our Head Curator, Dr Brendan Rooney reflects on the importance of the AIB Portrait Prize to the Gallery, and talks about our wonderful partner venues for this year, Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny and Waterford Gallery of Art. In 2027, we’re delighted that the exhibitions will travel to Galway Arts Centre and Limerick City Gallery of Art.

➡️ Enter the AIB Portrait Prize: https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions/aib-portrait-prize-2026

➡️ Enter the AIB Young Portrait Prize: https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions/aib-young-portrait-prize-2026

Film by Joe Copage.

05/06/2026

We are delighted to present a selection of outstanding works from the collections of Hugh Lane Gallery, which is currently closed due to refurbishment. These paintings are an excellent representation of 19th and 20th century Irish and international art.

Hugh Lane Gallery was founded in 1908 by Sir Hugh Lane, who also played an important role in the history of the National Gallery of Ireland. Many of the works on display here formed part of Hugh Lane Gallery’s original holdings. Highlights of the collection include Sir Hugh’s Impressionist paintings (now shared in partnership with the National Gallery, London) and a fine group of paintings by Francis Bacon.

🎨Included in the display is this painting of Waterloo Bridge by Claude Monet, which he painted while staying at the Savoy Hotel in London in 1900. In all, he painted over forty views of the bridge, which he could see from his room. In this example, he captures the city’s early morning atmosphere, suggesting mist and smoke, and describing the traffic crossing the Thames with delicate touches of red and pink.

📍 Find the display in Room 47 and 48 the next time you visit. Admission free.

🖼️ Claude Monet (1840-1927), Waterloo Bridge, Overcast Weather. Collection and image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Donated by Ella Fry, 1905.

Cúis áthais dúinn rogha de shaothair iontacha ó bhailiúcháin Dánlann Hugh Lane, atá dúnta i láthair na huaire chun oibreacha athchóirithe a dhéanamh, a chur ar taispeáint. Tá léargas iontach le fáil sna pictiúir seo ar shaothair ealaíne Éireannacha agus idirnáisiúnta a rinneadh sa naoú haois déag agus san fhichiú haois déag.

Ba é Sior Hugh Lane a bhunaigh Dánlann Hugh Lane sa bhliain 1908, agus bhí ról tábhachtach aige i stair Ghailearaí Náisiúnta na hÉireann freisin. Bhí go leor de na saothair atá ar taispeáint anseo le fáil i gcéad bhailiúchán Dánlann Hugh Lane. I measc bhuaicphointí an bhailiúcháin tá pictiúir Impriseanaíocha Hugh Lane (atá á roinnt anois i gcomhpháirt leis an nGailearaí Náisiúnta, Londain) agus bailiúchán breá de phictiúir a rinne Francis Bacon.

🎨Tá an pictiúr seo de Dhroichead Waterloo le Claude Monet san áireamh sa taispeántas. Fad is a bhí sé ag fanacht in Ostán an Savoy i Londain, phéinteáil Monet breis is daichead radharc de Dhroichead Waterloo, a bhí le feiceáil aige óna sheomra. Sa sampla seo, tugann sé léargas ar atmaisféar na cathrach luath ar maidin. Cruthaíonn sé ceobhrán agus deatach, agus déanann sé cur síos ar an trácht ag dul trasna na Tamaise trí úsáid a bhaint as stríoca éadroma dearga agus bándearga.

📍Feicfidh tú an taispeántas i Seomra 47 agus 48 an chéad uair eile a thugann tú cuairt. Saorchead isteach.

🖼️ Claude Monet (1840-1927), Droichead Waterloo, Aimsir Ghruama. Dánlann Hugh Lane: Bronta ag Bean Uasal Ella Fry, 1905.

03/06/2026

Explore a world of myth, poetry, and visionary art at our summer exhibition, William Blake: The Age of Romantic Fantasy.

🎟️ See it here until 19 July. Tickets from €0 - €16, Friends of the Gallery and under 18s always go free. Book here: https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/william-blake-age-romantic-fantasy

🤝Organised in collaboration with Tate. The exhibition is supported by The William Blake Giving Circle. The Gallery would like to thank the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport for their ongoing support.

🎞️ Film by Michael-David McKernan.

02/06/2026

We're at the halfway point of our exhibition, William Blake: The Age of Romantic Fantasy, so still lots of time to visit before it closes on 19 July (though don’t put it off too long!).

🌙On 18 June, we’ll be hosting a special Blake-themed Thursday Lates evening here at the Gallery. As well as our usual offer of €5 tickets after 5pm, we’ll also have a full programme of free events inspired by some of the themes of the exhibition. You can look forward to a print-making workshop, improv poetry, tarot readings, Meet the Makers talks, a musical performance in our Shaw Room and much more. Our café will have a special menu for the evening, too, with small plates and drinks from €5 each. You’ll find all the details on our website. https://www.nationalgallery.ie/whats-on/thursday-lates-william-blake

➕Other upcoming Blake events include a free family drop-in workshop on Sunday 21 June, and a talk by the Chair of the Blake Society, Dr Sibylle Erle, this Thursday evening, 4 June. This one is free for Friends of the Gallery, and there are limited tickets available for non-members on our website. https://www.nationalgallery.ie/whats-on

🎟️William Blake: The Age of Romantic Fantasy continues here until 19 July. Tickets from €0-€16. Friends of the Gallery and under 18s always go free. The exhibition is organised in collaboration with Tate. This exhibition is supported by The William Blake Giving Circle. The Gallery would like to thank the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport for their ongoing support.
https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/william-blake-age-romantic-fantasy

Image: William Blake (1757-1827),Plate 4 of ‘Visions of the Daughters of Albion’, c.1795. Purchased with the assistance of a special grant from the National Gallery and donations from the Art Fund, Lord Duveen and others, and presented through the Art Fund 1919. Photo: Tate.

29/05/2026

"I think it's really a collaboration between sitter and artist, as the best portraits are."

Our Director, Dr Caroline Campbell, recently took a walk around the Gallery with RTE Arena's Rick O'Shea to look at some of her favourite artworks in our collection. Her picks included this vibrant and exuberant portrait of Marian Keyes by Margaret Corcoran in our Portrait Gallery.

You can listen in on their conversation at the link below, and then why not come in and see the artworks mentioned this long weekend, and pick out your own favourites!

🎧 https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22617015/

P.S. If you're visiting this weekend, as well as our permanent collection, you can also see our major summer exhibition, William Blake: The Age of Romantic Fantasy. It continues here until 19 July, and Friends of the Gallery and under 18s go free. Organised in collaboration with Tate. This exhibition is supported by The William Blake Giving Circle. The Gallery would like to thank the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport for their ongoing support.

🎟️ https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/william-blake-age-romantic-fantasy

Image: Margaret Corcoran (b.1963 Dublin), The Composition – A Portrait of Marian Keyes, 2023.

28/05/2026

✍️We’re now accepting entries for this year’s Sarah Cecilia Harrison Essay Prize. Now in its fifth year, it recognises new research and writing, telling the stories of women in Ireland’s visual culture

🔗 Find out more, and read the essays by previous winners, at the link below. The closing date for receipt of entries is Friday 18 September. https://www.nationalgallery.ie/what-we-do/library-and-archives/sarah-cecilia-harrison-essay-prize

This prize is generously supported by the descendants of the sister of Sarah Cecilia Harrison, Beatrice Chisholm.

Image: Sarah Cecilia Harrison, Self Portrait (1889). Collection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Donated by Captain Harrison, 1942.

27/05/2026

⏳ ENTRIES NOW WELCOME

As we near the deadline for the submission of entries to the AIB Portrait Prize and AIB Young Portrait Prize 2026 on Friday 3 July, we’re very pleased to introduce you to this year’s judges.

⚡️The AIB Portrait Prize judges are:
- Brian Fay, artist and Lecturer at TU Dublin.
- Christina Kennedy, Senior Curator, Head of Collections at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
- Joseph McBrinn, Art Historian and Lecturer at Belfast School of Art

⚡️The AIB Young Portrait Prize judges are:
- Amanda Coogan, artist
- Carl Hickey, artist
- Donna Rose, curator at the National Museum of Ireland

A warm welcome to all six judges, who have a difficult but very rewarding task ahead of them as they choose the shortlisted works, and later, the winning portraits.

📆The closing date for receipt of entries is 10pm on Friday 3 July - all the details are linked below. Good luck to all the artists who are thinking about entering this year.

🔗AIB Portrait Prize: https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions/aib-portrait-prize-2026

🔗AIB Young Portrait Prize: https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions/aib-young-portrait-prize-2026

The shortlisted artworks in both competitions will go on display here at the National Gallery of Ireland from 14 November 2026 until 14 March 2027, and the winners will be announced at an awards ceremony here in December. The exhibitions will also travel to our exhibition partners, Galway Arts Centre and Limerick City Gallery of Art, later in 2027.

26/05/2026

Our Centre for the Study of Irish Art is hosting a free Yeats study morning and pop-up display tomorrow, Wednesday 26 May.

While the study morning is fully subscribed, we’d love to invite you all to drop by to take a look at the display in our Reading Rooms from 2pm to 4pm, where members of our Library and Archive team will be on hand to tell you more about the treasures on display and answer any questions.

Among the items you can look forward to seeing are two of Jack B. Yeats’ paint boxes, which we recently acquired. Fascinating objects in their own right – one has extendable tripod legs and a wall-mounted easel! – the addition of a painting tray and tubes of oil paint, as well as the aforemenioned legs and easel, speak directly to Yeats’ working methods. They will support ongoing conservation research projects by offering fresh insights into the materials and techniques that shaped Yeats's distinctive artistic vision.

Other beautiful objects on display tomorrow will include examples of Lily Yeats’ exquisite embroidery and Jack B. Yeats’s 1922 silver Olympic Medal, and other surprises that will showcase the creativity of three generations of this artistic family, from portrait painter John Butler Yeats (1839-1922) and his four talented children – William, Lily, Elizabeth and Jack – to acclaimed painter and designer Anne Yeats (1919-2001).

📍Find the Reading Room in Rooms 35 and 36, on Level 3 of the Milltown Wing. All very welcome.

🔗This study morning and pop-up display coincides with the exhibition ‘Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts’ at the McMullen Museum, Boston, which features significant loans from our Yeats Archive. You can read more about it here: https://sourcenationalgallery.ie/node/141

Images:
1. Seagull portiere. c. 1903. Designed by Mary Cottenham Yeats, embroidered by Lily Yeats.
2 & 3. Reproduced with kind permission of Gormleys Art Auctions
4. Silver Olympic Medal (Paris, 1924). Awarded to Jack Butler Yeats for The Liffey swim.
5. Dun Emer Industries embroidery room, Dundrum, Dublin, 1905. Image © National Gallery of Ireland

25/05/2026

Bígí linn le haghaidh caint saor in aisce i rith am lóin amárach, ag féachaint ar The Gleaners le Jules Breton (1827-1906).

Join us for a free lunchtime talk tomorrow about Jules Breton's The Gleaners.

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