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Vincent Henry Lines, British, 1909-1968
Title: Portrait of Tomás Ó Criomthain (1856-1937), Author
Date: 1934
Medium: Ink and graphite on paper
Dimensions:
25.2 x 19.2 cm
Signed: lower right (in ink): Vincent Lines - 34
Credit Line: Purchased, 1981
Object Number: NGI.7926
DescriptionBorn in 1855, Tomás Ó Criomhthain, or Tomás O'Crohan was a native of the Irish-speaking Great Blasket Island, 3 kilometres off the coast of the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland. O’Crohan wrote The Islander, his autobiography, in his later years, at the request of others who foresaw the end of lives like his, and who worried, too, about the end of the Gaelic language. The book stands alongside those by Peig Sayers and Muiris Ó Súilleabháin as testimonies to the lives they lived, and as vital texts of the Gaelic Revival.
ProvenancePurchased, Private Collection, 1981
Exhibition HistoryRecent Acquisitions 1980-1981, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 5 August - 27 September 1981
Inscriptionlower left: Tomás Ó Criomthain/The Islandsman -