[KEATING, Sean] After Sean Keating RHA A copy in oils of Keating's celebrated painting 'The Race of the Gael' (1938), by an unknown hand. Oil on canvas, 50 x 49cm, inscribed rear. The figure...

[KEATING, Sean] After Sean Keating RHA A copy in oils of Keating's celebrated painting 'The Race of the Gael' (1938), by an unknown hand. Oil on canvas, 50 x 49cm, inscribed rear. The figure models for this work were two leading Republicans, Sean McGarry of Dublin, veteran IRB member, friend of Tom Clarke and close associate of Michael Collins (to left holding rifle), and Sean Moylan of Cork, a brigade Commandant in the War of Independence, later a Fianna Fáil Minister. The figures are said to be based on sketches taken by Keating during the Dáil's Treaty debate in early 1922, when many IRA members were in Dublin with time on their hands. Sean Moylan also features in Keating's 'Men of the South' (1922). The original of this work was awarded first prize in the New York World's Fair of 1939.

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