Press Releases

  1. The National Gallery of Ireland launches its Strategic Plan 2019–2023

    16/04/2019: Developed through collaboration with staff and executive teams, and approved by the Governors and Guardians and the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Josepha Madigan, TD.
  2. A black and white photograph with a low horizon and expansive cloudy sky, with simple whitewashed cottage standing in a field.

    New exhibition Shaping Ireland: Landscapes in Irish Art opens Saturday, 13 April 2019.

    12/04/2019: The National Gallery of Ireland brings Ireland’s great outdoors inside for its new exhibition.
  3. Watercolour of woman in a green dress standing with her arms out perpendicular to her body.

    Special display by EVE Castleview HUB at National Gallery of Ireland

    09/04/2019: The National Gallery of Ireland and EVE Castleview HUB are delighted to announce a brand new display of works celebrating five years of partnership.
  4. The logo for the Zurich Young Portrait Prize 2019; splashes of colourful paint, and text saying Zurich Young Portrait Prize

    Zurich Young Portrait Prize launches in April 2019

    01/04/2019: Following the outstanding success of the National Gallery of Ireland’s nationwide portrait prize, the Gallery is delighted to introduce the inaugural Zurich young Portrait Prize.
  5. Stephen Doyle (b. 1994), Dylan is ainm dom…, 2018. © Stephen Doyle.

    OUTing the Past at the National Gallery of Ireland, 23 March 2019

    19/02/2019: The National Gallery of Ireland is proud to bring OUTing the Past: The Festival of LGBT Historyto Dublin for the first time on Saturday 23 March 2019. 

  6. National Drawing Day brings creativity countrywide 

    18/02/2019: Celebrating the fifteenth edition of National Gallery of Ireland's initiative.
  7. Map of Genoa dating to 1781.

    Discover travel guides from centuries past at the National Gallery of Ireland

    18/02/2019: A new exhibition showcasing rare Italian guidebooks from centuries past opens on 16 March at the National Gallery of Ireland.
  8. Black and white etching of people in the gallery of a theatre looking down.

    New exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland celebrates the art of etching

    04/02/2019: Making their Mark: Irish Painter-Etchers & the Etching Revival offers a rare opportunity to discover artists who made a significant contribution to the international Etching Revival from the 1880s. 
  9. A painted view of a harbour with a sailboat in the foreground and a cliff to the right.

    Nathaniel Hone: Travels of a Landscape Artist

    10/01/2019: New exhibition to open at the National Gallery of Ireland on 23 February 2019.
  10. Painting of King Solomon seated on throne and greeting the Queen of Sheba who is accompanied by ladies-in-waiting, a maid, a dog and a little person.

    National Gallery of Ireland awarded funding under the Bank of America Art Conservation Project 2018

    31/10/2018: To support the conservation of Lavinia Fontana's painting The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon.