A big score for this Tipperary hurler

Today is a good day for Sean Keating’s charcoal drawing of his own painting, ‘The Tipperary Hurler’, to go on auction in Dublin



It’s not great art, but it is good mythmaking

Seán Keating wanted to establish an authentically Irish school of art. It’s debatable how successful he was, but there’s no denying the importance of his paintings to our history




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