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Irish Art

Irish Art. Pre-Christian Ireland 7000 –2000 B.C. Court cairns : consist of a stone forecourt area, with chambers used for burials, covered with a long cairn. They were built from c4000 BC and are found throughout Ireland. Dolmen.

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Irish Art

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  1. Irish Art

  2. Pre-Christian Ireland 7000 –2000 B.C. • Court cairns: consist of a stone forecourt area, with chambers used for burials, covered with a long cairn. They were built from c4000 BC and are found throughout Ireland.

  3. Dolmen • The word Dolmen means stone table in Breton. Most were built around 2000 BC along Ireland's East Coast. • The most obvious of early Stone Age tombs are dolmen.A large slab top three or more large stones. They can weigh up to 100 tons. It was an enormous feat of engineering. There are more than 1400 in Ireland. • They are mentioned in Irish legends too. Diarmuid and Gráinne allegedly slept under one when they eloped.

  4. Newgrange • Newgrange, built around 3,200 BC and recently restored, is a great circular mound of earth and stone 250 feet in diameter encircled by a ring of standing stones. The interior is solid except for a single stone-lined and -capped passage 62 feet long and 3 feet wide which terminates close to the centre of the mound in main chamber with a corbelled vault 20 feet high and three recessed chambers.

  5.  The entrance, in front of which is a massive curbstone (10 feet long, 4 feet high) carved with spirals and lozenges, incoporates a roof box which allows the sun, at sunrise on the morning of the winter solstice on December 21, to penetrate the full length of the interior passage all the way to the main chamber. A similar carefully calculated phenomenon is also found at Abu Simbel in Egypt.

  6. Bronze Age 2000 – 500 B.C.

  7. Iron Age500B.C – A.D. 400 Broighter Boat Broighter Collar

  8. Early Christian Period 5th & 6thCenturies Skellig Kerry Coast

  9. Gallarus Oratory Co. Kerry

  10. Stone Carving Carandonagh Cross Co. Donegal Fahan Mura Slab

  11. High Christian Period 7th & 8th Century North Cross Aheny Cross of Moone Co. Kildare

  12. Ardagh Chalice

  13. Tara Brooch

  14. Viking Invasions 9th & 10th Centuries

  15. Round Tower

  16. Muirdeach’s Cross Monasterboice The finest of the high crosses.

  17. Manuscripts The Book of Kells

  18. The Medieval period 11th & 12th Centuries

  19. Cross of Cong

  20. Eighteenth Century Irish Georgian Period

  21. James Barry Neoclassical Painter 1741-1806

  22. Walter Osbourne 1859 - 1903

  23. Influenced by French Plein-air Painting

  24. William Leech 1881-1968

  25. Paul Henry 1876-1958

  26. Jack Butler Yates 1871-1957 Son of John Butler Yates and brother of poet W.B.Yeats

  27. Louis Le Brocquy

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