Module 1: Emigration in Art

Noreen Bowden

Ean, Ireland’s Emigrant Advice Network

Emigrants at Cork

Unknown, 1840

Erskine Nicol, 1850s

Outward Bound

(left)

Homeward Bound

Emigrant ship, Dublin Bay, Sunset

Edwin Hayes,

1853

Emigrant ship leaving Belfast

John Glen Wilson,

1852

Departure of emigrants at Clifden

A. O’Kelly , 1883

James Brennan,

1875

Crawford

Municipal

Gallery

Letter from America

Jack B. Yeats,

1905

Private

Collection

Possible remedies – the emigrant

Joseph Wilson,

1930

[Emigrants at Cobh]

Sean Keating,

1936

Crawford

Municipal Art

Gallery

Economic Pressure

Patrick

Hennessey

1943

Hugh Lane

Municipal

Gallery of

Modern Art

Exiles

Kate Horgan,

late 1980s

Goodbye