This afternoon.
Leinster House, Dublin 2
Female members of the Dáil and Seanad with artist Noel Murphy.
As part of the Votáil100 campaign to mark the 100 years of women’s’ suffrage, Noel has produced a portrait featuring all 53 female members of the Dáil and Seanad.
Noel has also placed Countess Markievicz in the painting, “connecting the first woman elected to parliament, with the contemporary women who had followed her”.
Fight!
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I can hear the stampede, they’ll be giving out about the male painter. This is gonna be class.
Love to know how much this painting cost the taxpayer?
They appear to be standing on some very steep steps in fog.
An appropriate metaphor for women in politics, perhaps?
Dee has gone all out today.
Noel can paint
I think it’s a rather lovely gesture. Maith an fear..er, I mean etc
WHO LET THE DOGS OUT???
Only joking. Lovely jubbly.
Next task: can you identify each person in the painting correctly?
Mary Lou is well placed in the middle under the pillar – with nobody near her… interesting composition.
I was just about to make the same remark. It looks like it started off as ML portrait and the rest got sketched in as an afterthought because she’s the only one who doesn’t look squashed in…. Like she’s let rip a big stinkie rudie!
It’s partitionist! Where’s Foster and O’Neill?
And what is the sash Bacik is wearing?
It says Votes for Women. I guess it must be a suffragette thing?
It makes Joan Burton look like Dermot Morgan in drag.
Yikes! Took me a while to find her. That is NOT flattering.
Can’t help noticing the cool greys and blues coming through from the background makes a lot of them look like they have stubble. I suspect Noel is more used to painting men.
Yeesh. Noel must be a fan…
Did the tax payer pay for this or did the subjects in the painting pay for it?
Who do you think?
Where is Clare? The best woman in there!
Top left at the back? Just in from a quick smoke.
Ha
I love that he put Bríd and Joan (Collins) next to each other
watch that painting lads
they might even fall out there too
Tell ye wha’ tho lads
he can paint me anytime
he knows how to take a few stone off
thats for sure
Franny still has high hopes..
Only in her wet ones..
In my best Frankie Boyle voice…it took me almost an hour, but I managed to knock one out ;)
I like it, nice style of painting he has
What a load of bull poo.
What’s Pat Rabbitte doing in the background?
Fine collection of teachers solving the problems of teachers everywhere
I love how Joan Burton is painted shielding behind the former Minister for Justice.
The more I look at it there are all kind of subtle in jokes there.
Well done to the artist.
could none of them smile?
Brett Anderson from Suede there, bottom right-ish.
FG – the bullying party eh? Will be all over the MSM tonight. Won’t it? https://mobile.twitter.com/fionamacky/status/971677259064061952?s=19
Rolf Harris quote please.
“Tie me kangaroo down, sport”
… but I’m not sure how that helps