Edward Delaney was an Irish sculptor born in Claremorris in County Mayo in 1930. His best known works include the 1967 statue of Wolfe Tone and famine memorial at the northeastern corner of St Stephen's Green in Dublin and the statue of Thomas Davis in College Green, opposite Trinity College Dublin. These are both examples of lost-wax bronze castings, his main technique during the 1960s and early 1970s.
Camille Souter was a British-born Irish abstract and landscape artist. She lived and worked on Achill Island and was a Saoi of Aosdána.
Gabriel Hayes was an Irish artist born in Dublin. She was a sculptor and medallist who studied in Dublin, France, and Italy and was also an accomplished painter.
The National College of Art and Design (NCAD) is Ireland's oldest art institution, offering the largest range of art and design degrees at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the country. Originating as a drawing school in 1746, many of the most important Irish artists, designers and art educators have studied or taught in the college. NCAD has always been located in central Dublin, and in 1980 it relocated to the historic Liberties area. The College has around 950 full-time students and a further 600 pursuing part-time courses, and NCAD's students come from more than forty countries. NCAD is a Recognised College of University College Dublin. It is also a member of the European League of Institutes of the Arts.
Nuala Holloway is an Irish actress, model, teacher and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Ireland International 1975.
Françoise Henry was a scholar of early Irish art, archaeologist, and art historian. While at University College Dublin (UCD), she founded the Department of History of European Painting in 1965, and was head until she retired in 1974.
Eileen MacDonagh was born in Geevagh, County Sligo in 1956 and has worked as a sculptor since the 1980s. For her contribution to sculpture and the Arts in Ireland, MacDonagh was elected in 2004 to Aosdána, the Irish organisation that recognises artists that have contributed a unique body of work.
Deborah Brown was a Northern Irish sculptor. She is well known in Ireland for her pioneering exploration of the medium of fibre glass in the 1960s and established herself as one of the country's leading sculptors, achieving extensive international acclaim.
Carolyn MulhollandHRHA, HRUA is an Irish sculptor.
Mary FitzGerald is an Irish artist. She lives and works in Dublin and County Waterford. After graduating from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 1977, she moved to Japan where she lived and exhibited between 1979 and 1981. FitzGerald has held numerous solo exhibitions in Ireland, Europe and the United States and has participated in group exhibitions worldwide. She has represented Ireland at ROSC, L'Imaginaire Irlandais and the XVIII Bienal de Sao Paulo.
Ethel Rhind was an Irish stained-glass and mosaic artist, who was associated with An Túr Gloine.
Catherine Amelia "Kitty" O'Brien was an Irish stained glass artist, and a member and director of An Túr Gloine.
Helen Huntington Hooker or Helen Hooker O'Malley Roelefs was an American sculptor and portrait painter who spent a considerable part of her career in Ireland.
Dorothy Molloy was an Irish poet, journalist and artist.
Hilary Heron was an Irish sculptor who exhibited with the Irish Exhibition of Living Art and represented Ireland at the 1956 Venice Biennale.
Rosemarie Mulcahy was an Irish academic and author who specialised in 16th and 17th century Spanish art and the Spanish Renaissance. She taught undergraduate modules on Spanish art at the University College Dublin from 1989 to 2003 along with authoring books, essays, magazine articles and scholarly catalogues on the subject.
Marjorie Fitzgibbon was an Irish-American artist and actress.
Barbara Dawson is an Irish author, editor, art historian, gallery director, and curator. She is curator of several art exhibitions including the works of notable artists such as Francis Bacon (2009).
Catherine Carman is an Irish sculptor, noted for large figurative works, often based on the human figure, in multiple materials. She is also a painter, and latterly additionally works with "found objects", digital imaging and sound. She is a member of Aosdána, Ireland's national academy of artists, and examples of her works are held in multiple major collections.
Sophie von Maltzan is a German and Irish landscape architect, gardener, painter and sculptor, academic and environmentalist, known for her work in collaborative projects to create green spaces in urban settings, primarily in Ireland, including the development of a number of "pocket parks" or community gardens. Several of her garden designs have won national medals in Ireland, and she was profiled in a book on German gardeners, while one of her community garden projects was the topic of a chapter in a book on the concept of arts and "placemaking". She has also exhibited in Irish national sculptural shows.
