As the curatorial fellow at the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, I contributed to the production of the exhibition catalogue Homecoming: Walter Osborne’s Portraits of Dublin, 1880—1900. I was responsible for the provenance research, extensive copy-editing, image colour-proofing, and a selection of catalogue entries.

Published on the occasion of the first monographic exhibition organised in the United States of one of Ireland’s foremost artists of the nineteenth-century, Walter Osborne, it is the first full-colour illustrated catalogue of the artist’s work. It traces the course of the artist’s career from his student days, travels to Belgium, France, and England—which informed so much of his subsequent painting—and finally his return to his native Dublin.

Leading curators and scholars contributing to the catalogue cast his work as a reflection on Ireland’s capital—its citizens, architecture, and green spaces but, more importantly, its status as a city approaching modernisation and political transformation.

Thirty-five catalogue entries examine iconic works on loan from the National Gallery of Ireland, Hugh Lane Gallery, Hunt Museum in Limerick, Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, and private collectors. The result is a rich tapestry of life and art in Ireland at the close of the nineteenth century.