Hugh Lane’s Life and Achievement

Lady Gregory

Hugh Lane’s Life and Achievement

London

John Murray

1921

Inscribed by the author

Shockingly, Lane died, aged thirty-nine, in the sinking of the Lusitania in May 1915 as he was returning from a visit to New York. He had become the director of the National Gallery of Ireland a year earlier, as the Dublin city council narrowly rejected his proposal to create a permanent home for the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art he had established, to be operated by the city of Dublin. Lady Gregory, his aunt, wrote this elegiac biography, keeping alive both his memory and the struggle to establish a modern art museum in Ireland.