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Mon 07 Jul 2010A passion for the political
An exhibition that marries John Lavery’s art and his political leanings sets out to challenge what we think being Irish really involves, writes AIDAN DUNNE
NOTHING ILLUSTRATES John Lavery’s remarkable involvement with Ireland and Anglo-Irish relations more clearly than his decision, in 1916, to attend and record, on a huge canvas, Roger Casement’s appeal against his death sentence. The painting is included in Sinéad McCoole’s fascinating exhibition, Passion and Politics, at the Hugh Lane Gallery.
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