'The great need of modern Ireland is to be re-united with its past ... through the intellectual cultivation of the country': the latter days of the Celtic Revival in Ireland

Nicola Gordon Bowe will give the sixth a final lecture in our series of Lunchtime Lectures on ‘Intellectual life in Ireland 1910-1920’. This series accompanies a library exhibition on the same theme.

This lecture will examine the work of leading participants in the Celtic Revival in Ireland in the second decade of the twentieth century, and explore the intellectual environment that underpinned the movement in its latter days.

Speaker: Nicola Gordon Bowe is Associate Fellow at the National College of Art & Design. She has lectured and published widely on nineteenth-century, twentieth century and contemporary art, design and the applied and decorative arts and crafts. Publications include The Arts and Crafts Movements in Dublin and Edinburgh with E.S. Cumming (1998); The life and work of Harry Clarke (4th edition, 2012). Her most recent book is the acclaimed Wilhelmina Geddes:  life and work (2015).