About Homan

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Look Homan up in the annual volume of Who's Who (published by A & C Black, London) or see his entry in Debrett's Distinguished People of Today. You can also find him on the website of the Princess Grace Irish Library:

http://www3.monaco.mc/pglib/html/index.html His time at the National Gallery of Ireland is the subject of a chapter in Peter Somerville-Large's book, 1854-2004: The Story of the National Gallery of Ireland (2004); and Vera Ryan has recently published an interview with him in her book, Movers and Shapers 2: Irish Visual Art 1940-2006 (2006).

About Homan...

Homan, the youngest in a family of eight, was born (in 1946) and brought up at Rathcormick, the family farm in County Meath. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, he was a Curator at the National Gallery, London (1974-80) and Director of the National Gallery of Ireland (1980-88). He is a former Editor of Irish Arts Review.

Portrait of Homan as Director of the National Gallery of Ireland

by Andrew Festing (1987)

For the artist and this portrait, see http://www.therp.co.uk/picture.asp?art=11&pic=25

Homan's sketch of Rathcormick from the cover of of the first edition of his book

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