OUTing the Past: The International Festival of LGBTQI+ History

22-28 March 2021, online.

Meet the Staff: Mathilde Renauld, Conservator

Meet the people behind the Gallery!

Creative Commons: downloadable artworks

1000 high resolution images from our collection now available to

Aidan Crotty | Winner, Zurich Portrait Prize 2020

Video: Artist Aidan Crotty offers us a glimpse behind the scenes

Audio Tour for Kids & Families: An Artist's Adventure

Look, listen and learn about art with audio designed for kids

Art & Mindfulness: Powerscourt Waterfall

A guided mindfulness video for primary schools

Exclusive Curator's Tour: Mondrian Online

Experience the magic from wherever you are!

Mid-term Break: Activities and ideas for kids

Some fun activities & creative content for kids and young people

National Gallery at Home: Self-Portraits

A step-by-step art activity video for children

Meet the winners of the Zurich Young Portrait Prize 2020

Video: The five winners of this year's prize introduce themselves

Podcasts: Mondrian

The first podcast in this series is now available

Discussing the work of Piet Mondrian

A dementia inclusive in-home resource

Artists’ Voices: Life in a Pandemic

Episode 6 with Ruth Lyons available now

Through a Lens tour: Chinese Lunar New Year Festival

A self-guided tour of the collection, in Mandarin and English

National Gallery of Ireland at Home: Reflecting Faces

Make your own printed portrait inspired by George Wallace

Five things to know about George Bernard Shaw

Discover some interesting facts about the man at the centre of ou

Lavinia Fontana Conservation and Research Project

Shining a light on a female Renaissance artist

Meet the Staff: Caomhán Mac Con Iomaire

Introducing the faces behind the Gallery!

Through a Lens tour: Babies & Toddlers

An online self-guided tour to engage babies and toddlers

National Gallery at Home: A Colour Experiment!

Try out this creative activity inspired by Turner's watercolours

Dementia inclusive in-home resource

For people with dementia and their carers to enjoy art at home

George Wallace: Talking Heads

Curator Anne Hodge discusses Wallace's printed heads

Video: George Bernard Shaw and the Gallery

Watch a video of archivist Leah Benson talking about Shaw and th

Through a Lens tour: LGBTQIA+

An online self-guided tour.

Mindfulness and Art

Some tips for slowing down and reflecting on art

In Focus: the flâneur

Linking the collection with art historical, theoretical or philos

Sketchbooks at the National Gallery of Ireland: Part Two

A look at the sketches of Walter Osborne and F.W. Burton

Sketchbooks at the National Gallery of Ireland: Part One

Discover sketches by Maria Spilsbury Taylor & John Butler Yeats

Through a Lens tour: Family Favourites

An online self-guided tour for visitors with young children

Nature from the Archives

Learn about Irish artists who illustrated nature

Drawing Inspiration

Exploring some drawings in the collection

National Gallery at Home: Van Gogh

Draw your own picture-perfect window view, inspired by Van Gogh!

Video: Irish Botanical Art

An illustrated talk by the librarian at the National Botanic Gard

Apollo Project: Artistic Licence Activity

Why not use artistic licence to reimagine a work from the Gallery

Colouring in the Collection

Download and colour in some works from the national collection

Explore the Renaissance with Cozimo

Learn about this fascinating period in art history

In Focus: The Emancipated Spectator

Connecting the collection to art historical, theoretical or philo

National Gallery at Home: Profile Portraits

Create your own profile portrait at home, inspired by Antonio

National Gallery of Ireland at Home: Shades on!

Follow these simple steps to make your own collage at home inspi

Literary and mythological characters

Discover artworks populated with characters from writing

Interior Lives

Exploring domestic scenes in the collection

Sensory Workshop: Create your own 'stained glass'!

Try out this exciting step-by-step activity

Drawing Activity: Shapes and Spatial Relations

Develop your observational skills and explore spatial relations,

Make your own Camera Obscura!

Follow along to create your own camera obscura! 

Irish Women Artists from the Archives

Women played a key role in the development of modern art in Irela

Bram Stoker Festival: Warmbloods audio tour

A darkly comedic audio tour of the Gallery by improv duo Underth

Recording a Refurbishment

Fascinating objects uncovered during the Gallery's renovation

Moments in Time \ Podcast series

A series of podcasts produced to accompany our exhibition, Moment

Caravaggio 25 \ A masterpiece revealed

The unveiling of Caravaggio's painting to the Irish public

One Nation Indivisible: a dark moment in history

Find out the story behind this Dorothea Lange photograph, which i

Live recording: Tracy Chevalier in conversation

A live recording of a conversation between Tracy Chevalier, autho

Courage

Other Voices presents Courage from the Shaw Room of the Gallery

Create your own Monet-inspired drawing and collage!

Follow along with an easy step-by-step video!

In Focus: Cubism

Connecting the collection to art historical, theoretical or philo

Dublin: James Joyce and Erich Hartmann

Photographer Erich Hartmann was inspired by James Joyce's Ulysses

The Wonder of Weeds

Discover the mysterious and surprising qualities of plants

Mothers

Celebrating mothers, grandmothers and mother figures in art

Eco awareness at the National Gallery of Ireland

Eco initiatives at the National Gallery of Ireland

A rare daguerreotype

Portrait of Daniel O'Connell.

A photograph can tell a powerful story

How Lewis Wickes Hine's photographs helped abolish child labour.

Through a Lens: Family Architecture

A special tour for Open House 2020

Homan Potterton

We're deeply saddened to learn of the death of our former Directo

In Focus: Summer Shadows, Summer Dreams

Connecting the collection to art historical, theoretical or philo

National Gallery at Home: Wearable Viewfinder

Follow this step-by-step activity to create your own wearable vie

Moment in Time: Reading the exhibition

A reading list of American literature and poetry.

What is a Portrait?

Discover the potential of portraiture!

Meet the Staff: Mary Dowling, Friends Retention Co-ordinator

Our new online feature introducing the people behind the Gallery

Conservation and Research Projects

Dedicated to caring for and safeguarding the collections

Apollo Project: Masterclass with Nick Roche

Learn about storyboarding from comic-book artist Nick Roche.

Meet the Staff: Sarah McAuliffe, Curatorial Fellow

Our new online feature introducing the people behind the Gallery

OUTing the Past: The Festival of LGBT History 2019

In 2019, the National Gallery of Ireland was delighted to bring O

Bauhaus and Entartete Kunst

Artists persecuted by the Nazis

The Island, A Prospect - a poem by Paula Meehan

A poem by Paula Meehan, written in response to the exhibition Sha

In Focus: the sublime in art

Linking the collection with art historical, theoretical or philos

Community Partner Exhibition: EVE Castleview

A special display of artwork created as part of a community partn

The Colour of Ireland

If the glossy green of Ireland is the result of man-made chemical

Inspiration and Rivalry: After Vermeer

Remembering this project, three years on

Shaping Ireland: Visualising the Anthropocene

The first in a series of short texts exploring themes from the ex

Five things to know \ Bauhaus 100: The Print Portfolios

Five quick facts about our Bauhaus exhibition

Moments in Time \ Podcast series

A series of podcasts produced to accompany our exhibition, Moment

How to make a patterned cape

Follow this step-by-step video to make a Sorolla-inspired cape.

Lights Out: Ireland and Mass Extinction

Since the arrival of humans in Ireland the extinction of around

Inishbofin Community Art Project

Creating textile art in response to 'Shaping Ireland: Landscapes

Explainer: Who were the Irish painter-etchers?

Five quick facts about our past exhibition 'Making their Mark: Ir

Journey of a conservator: working on our Guercino in the Getty

A behind-the-scenes look at Gallery conservator Maria Canavan's t

Yeats Archive

Collections related to Jack B. Yeats and members of his family

Bloomsday

To celebrate Bloomsday, we look at a few Joycean highlights from

Entartete Kunst \ Degenerate Art

From 1937, the National Socialist Party confiscated modernist art

Meet the Staff: Sarah Thomas, Corporate Engagement and Events Manager

Our new online feature introducing the people behind the Gallery

In Focus: the flâneur

Linking the collection with art historical, theoretical or philos

The Much More Magnificent Seven

A special collaboration between the Gallery, LauraLynn Children's

Resources for Schools \ Acmhainní do Scoileanna

Downloadable resources for students and teachers

Discussing prints by Irish-Canadian artist George Wallace

A dementia inclusive in-home resource

Inspiration and Rivalry: After Vermeer

Remembering this project, three years on

World Book Day

Explore portraits of writers in our collection

Canaletto and his art, in a nutshell

Get to know the eighteenth-century painter of iconic views of Ven

National Gallery of Ireland at Home: Sensory Spots

Use food to create your own paint and a spotty masterpiece.

The Wonder of Weeds

Discover the mysterious and surprising qualities of plants

National Gallery at Home: Framing the World

Follow this step-by-step activity to create a Mondrian-inspired p

Me aul flower

Inspired by Dublin's Bloom Festival, we took a look at some of ou

Everyday Bauhaus \ Bauhaus 100: The Print Portfolios

The influence of Bauhaus is all around us

Five things to know about Murillo: The Prodigal Son Restored

Five interesting stories about our new exhibition

Podcasts: The Island, A Prospect \ Slieve Donard, Mourne Mountains, Co. Down

With Dara McAnulty, autistic naturalist and environmental campaig

National Gallery of Ireland at Home: Baby Botany

An activity for parents/guardians to explore with young babies an

Writer Ian Maleney and Shaping Ireland

Writer Ian Maleny's debut book, Minor Monuments

National Gallery at Home: Mondrian's Windmills

Make your own mini windmill inspired by Mondrian's paintings

Your Gallery at School

Primary-school applications deadline is 5 February

National Gallery at Home: Family Field Explorers

Exploring nature together as a family can be fun and creative.

Five things to know about J.M.W. Turner's watercolours

Some interesting nuggets of information about J.M.W. Turner