Pop-up Display: Éiru’s Welcome: A Panel for All

Join us for a stained glass and archives pop-up display marking the launch of Éiru’s Welcome: A Panel for All, the first stained glass artwork commissioned by the National Gallery of Ireland.

Éiru’s Welcome: A Panel for All was commissioned by the Gallery’s Centre for the Study of Irish Art on the occasion of the exhibition An Túr Gloine: Artists and the Collective. Taking inspiration from the An Túr Gloine archive, Belfast artist Kerrie Hanna created this stained glass panel as part of a cross-border community engagement project, realised in collaboration with the Gallery Youth Panel. Kerrie and the Youth Panel co-created a stained glass design that responds creatively to the An Túr Gloine exhibition, drawing on Irish mythology and celebrating the shared island of Ireland as a collective of diverse stories, lives and experiences.

Join us to see this exciting new acquisition, on display alongside a selection of stained glass and archival material drawn from the Centre for the Study of Irish Art collections and the Éiru’s Welcome project. 

Drop in anytime between 3pm and 5.30pm to the Reading Rooms, Rooms 35-36 on Level 3 of the Milltown Wing of the Gallery. Kerrie Hanna, together with members of the Youth Panel and the Library & Archives team will be on hand to tell you about the new acquisition and the themes, processes and archive collections that inspired it.

Éiru’s Welcome: A Panel for All was supported by the Esmé Mitchell Trust.