Cork Silver and Gold
Four Centuries of Craftsmanship
John R. Bowen and Conor O'Brien.

Published to coincide with the exhibition in the Crawford Gallery Cork, this book is the first to chronicle the little-known work of Cork silversmiths and goldsmiths. Research into public and private collections now makes available the outstanding output of these craftsmen. The items described range from early ecclesiastical pieces dating from the late 1500s to a profusion of secular items, coffee pots, salvers, freedom boxes, maces and flatware.

ISBN-10: 1-903464-96-X
ISBN-13: 978-1903464960

PB
220pp
275 x 220mm
€35.00/£25.00
2005
Full colour, photos


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Movers & Shapers 2
Irish Visual Art 1940-2006
Vera Ryan.

Visiting an art gallery or buying a work of art is now part of everyday life, unlike the 1960s. Since then the role of the visual arts in society has undergone major change. Following from volume one, here are more oral histories on Irish art and the infrastructure on which it developed since 1950. Twelve interviewees again contribute. Each interview is structured to bring out the most in the interviewee resulting in a unique compilation, historically important but humanly engaging. It presents a very good picture of behind-the-scenes concerns in Irish art over 50 years, a record that will be of value to all.

ISBN-10: 1-905172-03-6
ISBN-13: 978-1-905172030

PB
320pp
216 x 138mm
€20.00/£14.99
2006
Black & white photos

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Privilege & Poverty
The Life and Times of Irish Painter and Naturalist Alexander Williams RHA (1846-1930)
Gordon T. Ledbetter.

Alexander Williams was the first artist to open the West of Ireland to a broad audience. His life was extraordinarily wide-ranging. A landscape painter, he was also an apprentice hatter, a taxidermist and a professional singer. Illustrated with a wide selection of his work, this biography illuminates the diversity of his life and times with material found nowhere else.

978-1-84889-034-3

Biography/Irish Art
HB
440 pp
246 x 174 mm
€40.00/£35.99
NOT YET PUBLISHED: Due in August 2010

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