Limerick City Gallery of Art
Irish art from the 18th century to now, in a Romanesque Revival Carnegie building on Pery Square.
Limerick City Gallery of Art holds the city's permanent collection of Irish art, begun in 1936 and now covering the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Holdings include paintings by Sean Keating, Grace Henry and Jack B. Yeats, the Michael O'Connor International Poster Collection and the National Collection of Contemporary Drawing. Alongside collection displays it shows a changing programme of contemporary exhibitions by Irish and international artists, and it is a principal venue for EVA International, Ireland's biennial of contemporary art.
The gallery occupies the Carnegie Building on Pery Square, a Romanesque Revival structure of 1906 built as a free library and museum on the edge of the Georgian district of Newtown Pery, facing the People's Park. The gallery gradually took over the whole building and later gained a purpose-built extension with additional galleries, a reading room and a café. Admission is free and the gallery is run by Limerick City and County Council.
Highlights
- Permanent collection of Irish art from the 18th century onwards
- National Collection of Contemporary Drawing
- Michael O'Connor International Poster Collection
- Romanesque Revival Carnegie Building of 1906 beside the People's Park
