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  • VISITORS FLOCK BACK TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND

    JMW TURNER – Story of Apollo and Daphne, exhibited 1837

    The National Gallery of Ireland has announced that over 788,000 visitors were welcomed in 2022, marking the second highest attendance recorded in recent years. In what was a significant re-opening year, following two years of pandemic-related closure, visitor attendance increased by 3.5% compared to that of 2019.  

    In 2022, visitors from Ireland and abroad explored a variety of exhibitions such as Jack B. Yeats: Painting & MemoryGiacometti: From Life, the Zurich Portrait Prize and Zurich Young Portrait Prize, and Turner: The Sun is God. Significant new works displayed at the Gallery included Original Sins by Hughie O’Donoghue and Memento Civitatem by Alice Maher and Jamie Murphy.

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