The Tan War: Rebel art puts revolutionaries in the picture

Mick O’Dea’s new exhibition at Triskel is a preamble to his major show of the 1916-23 period, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

MICK O’DEA has been doing for painting what Sean O’Casey’s Dublin trilogy of plays famously did for the stage. For the last eight years, O’Dea has turned his gaze on Ireland’s revolutionary years, 1916-1923. This will culminate next year in a centenary exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy to commemorate the 1916 Rising (O’Dea is president of the Academy).

In the meantime, another O’Dea exhibition, ‘The Tan War’, is at Cork’s Triskel Christchurch from Friday. It is curated by John P Quinlan.