IRISH ART AT HILLSBOROUGH CASTLE
March 2024 – January 2027
Hillsborough Castle, Northern Ireland

Fourteen works of Irish art from the collection of Crawford Art Gallery are on loan to Hillsborough Castle (Historic Royal Palaces) for a period of three years.

Dating to the eighteenth-century and open to the public, Hillsborough Castle is an official British royal residence set within 100 acres of picturesque gardens in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is here that the Hillsborough Agreement was signed on 5 February 2010.

The fourteen works on loan from Crawford Art Gallery are displayed in the historic State Drawing Room. Each painting is by a twentieth-century artist with a strong connection to the north of Ireland, including Margaret Clarke, Gerard Dillon, Paul Henry, and Jack B. Yeats.

Coincidentally, the family of our namesake, William Horatio Crawford (1812-1888), was originally from nearby Crawfordsburn, County Down. Settling in Cork in the late eighteenth-century, they co-established the Beamish & Crawford brewery and became significant philanthropists and supporters of education and the arts.

Crawford Art Gallery wishes to thank David Orr, Emma Lawthers, and the teams at Hillsborough Castle and Historic Royal Palaces.

Featured artworks:

• Margaret Clarke, The Dressmaker, 1924.
• William Conor, The Horse Fair, c.1940.
• Sylvia Cooke-Collis, Donkeys in County Clare, c.1955.
• Gerard Dillon, Returning Islanders, 1960.
• May Guinness, Portrait Study, c.1930.
• Grace Henry, Mountain Sheep, 1946.
• Paul Henry, Lough Altan, Co. Donegal, c.1930.
• John Luke, The Lock at Edenderry, 1935.
• Norah McGuinness, River to the Sea, 1959.
• Frank McKelvey, On the River Bann, c.1924.
• Colin Middleton, Moonlight at Ballyholme, 1953.
• Nano Reid, The Bottling Store, c.1959.
• John B. Vallely, Piper and Fiddler, undated.
• Jack B. Yeats, Off the Donegal Coast, 1922.

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