Hugh Lane Gallery

Located in Dublin’s City Centre, in Parnell Square, Hugh Lane Gallery, (originally named Municipal Gallery of Modern Art), houses one of Ireland’s most exciting collections of modern and contemporary Irish and international art. It is also the home of Francis Bacon’s Studio.

The gallery was founded by Sir Hugh Lane in 1908 as part of the dynamic and pioneering Celtic Revival Movement in Ireland at the turn of the 20th century.

See Impressionist paintings by Manet, Monet Degas, Pissarro and Morisot. Enjoy works by Agnes Martin, Nikki de Saint Phalle, Joseph Beuys, Günther Uecker and the stunning Francis Bacon studio. Enjoy the wonderful collection of Irish art and meet some of the famous Irish personalities in portraiture including W.B Yeats who wrote five poems about the gallery including the famous Municipal Gallery Revisited, Augusta Lady Gregory who, with W.B. Yeats, was a founder of the Abbey Theatre and political figures including Michael Collins, Eamon De Valera, Edward Carson and John Redmond.

Don’t miss the beautiful stained-glass room where Harry Clarke’s masterpieces The Eve of Saint Agnes and Mr Gilhooley reside.