Portrait of Tomás Ó Criomthain (1856-1937), Author

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Vincent Henry Lines , British, 1909-1968

Title

Date1934

MediumInk and graphite on paper

Dimensions

25.2 x 19.2 cm

Signedlower right (in ink): Vincent Lines - 34

Credit LinePurchased, 1981

Object numberNGI.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.
Inscriptionlower left: Tomás Ó Criomthain/The Islandsman -
ProvenancePurchased, Private Collection, 1981Exhibition HistoryRecent Acquisitions 1980-1981, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 5 August - 27 September 1981