Press Releases

  1. National Drawing Day logo featuring pink and green squiggle lines and a purple starburst line. Text says National Drawing Day Saturday 15 May 2021

    National Gallery invites online creativity from all around Ireland with National Drawing Day 2021

    12/05/2021: Annual celebration of drawing on Saturday 15 May 2021.
  2. Photo of Alexander Walker in his apartment sitting in a red leather armchair with lots of art hanging on the walls

    Prints and drawings by Picasso and Matisse on display at new National Gallery of Ireland exhibition

    10/05/2021: Living with art features highlights from collection of film critic Alexander Walker 
  3. Two women wearing face masks standing either side of a painting that's hanging on a grey wall

    National Gallery of Ireland reopens its doors to the public and launches new exhibition New Perspectives

    07/05/2021: - National Gallery of Ireland will open to the public on Monday, 10 May.
  4. Logos of the Zurich Portrait Prize and Zurich Young Portrait Prize

    National Gallery of Ireland launches art competitions 

    07/04/2021: Zurich Portrait Prize and Zurich Young Portrait Prize
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    Irish cultural institutions celebrate festival of LGBT history in March 2021

    25/02/2021: OUTing the Past at National Gallery of Ireland, National Museum of Ireland and Kilmainham Gaol
  6. An oil painting of a city scene. On the quays, a stall is selling books, with people gathered around looking. A woman stands by the wall, holding a child. In the background there's a bridge, and buildings silhouetted on the pink-grey sky of dusk.

    New online art appreciation course at National Gallery of Ireland

    23/02/2021: Cities and Suburbs: Life, Leisure and Landscape begins on 30 March 2021
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    Friends Fortnight at the National Gallery of Ireland

    10/02/2021: Two weeks of inspiring virtual events exclusively for members
  8. Group of school children taking part in an interactive tour of the Sorolla exhibition

    National Gallery of Ireland launches Your Gallery at School

    11/01/2021: Call out for schools across the country to participate in new outreach programme
  9. A checkerboard composition with oranges, pinks and blues

    Find inspiration in art this year with the National Gallery of Ireland

    08/01/2021: New online art appreciation course inspired by Mondrian begins next week
  10. Photographic diptych portrait of Edna O'Brien by Mandy O'Neill

    Portrait of Edna O’Brien by photographer Mandy O’Neill unveiled at National Gallery of Ireland on writer’s 90th birthday

    15/12/2020: Commission by winner of Zurich Portrait Prize added to national portrait collection