The National Gallery of Ireland has received a generous bequest from Maire MacNeill Sweeney, daughter of Eoin MacNeill, of fourteen paintings by modern masters.

Report shows the painting, ‘Still Life With Mandolin’, by Pablo Picasso.

Painting, ‘Pierrot’, by Juan Gris.

Painting, ‘The Singing Horseman’, by Jack B. Yeats.

'Self-portrait' by Jack B. Yeats.

Painting of Maire MacNeill Sweeney (artist not named), who bequeathed the paintings to the National Gallery of Ireland.

Drawing of Eoin MacNeill, Minister in First Free State Government.

Detail of ‘The Singing Horseman’.

Interview with Homan Potterton, Director of National Gallery of Ireland on the bequest.

The reporter is Joe O’Brien.

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