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Essays, notes, and critical reflections on the life and work of Albert George Power RHA
In the summer of 1922, within weeks of each other, three of the most significant figures of the Irish independence movement died. Albert Power made death masks of all three. No other object in Irish cultural life brings you closer to that terrible summer.
Read essay →There is a particular quality of attention that settles around Albert Power's seated figure of Pádraic Ó Conaire in Eyre Square, Galway — not the attention of monument, but of presence. This essay ...
Read essay →How does a sculptor make a portrait of a man who is already becoming legend? Power's answer was restraint — and it produced the most honest image we have of Michael Collins.
Read essay →The influence of Oliver Sheppard on Power's work is acknowledged but rarely examined closely. This essay attempts that examination, tracing what passed between them and — perhaps more revealingly —...
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