'Jesus, did I paint them?’; Robert Ballagh reacts to the nude portraits to him and his wife

Robert Ballagh’s many connections with Cork go all the way back to his showband days, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

Robert Ballagh has been visiting with his paintings in the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork. Two of Ballagh’s intimate nude portraits of him and his wife, Betty, are included in the Naked Truth: Nudes in Irish Art, the gallery’s current exhibition.