Irish Artists

Sir, - Further to your recent correspondence from Gerald Davis (September 5th) and Ciaran MacGonigal (September 10th), I am happy…

Sir, - Further to your recent correspondence from Gerald Davis (September 5th) and Ciaran MacGonigal (September 10th), I am happy to inform them and your readers that should they care to leave Dublin and head to Waterford city, they would find many senior Irish artists, both living and deceased, on permanent exhibition here in City Hall.We in Waterford Corporation possess a fine collection of over 200 works, fully representative of Irish art in this century. Works by Jack B., John B. and Anne Yeats, Arthur Armstrong, Gerard Dillon, George Campbell, Sarah Purser, Gerald Davis, Maurice MacGonigal and many more can be enjoyed here in City Hall, Monday to Friday, 10.00 a.m.1.00 p.m. and 2.00 p.m.-5 p.m. There is also an excellent catalogue compiled by the art historian Peter Jordan of Waterford Institute of Technology which we would be delighted to send free of charge to those interested. - Yours, etc.,Derek Verso,Arts Officer,City Hall,Waterford.