'Songs to the Siren' gathers impressive pieces at the Model 

Works by Banksy, Christy Brown, and Seán Scully feature in Sligo exhibition 

The exhibition at the Model co-curated by Paul Hallahan, includes Daphne Wright’s 'Pig', and a self-portrait by Christy Brown.

Songs to the Siren, the new exhibition at the Model, Sligo, takes its name from a song by the American musician Tim Buckley and its inspiration from the Irish writer Brian O’Nolan. Needless to say, both are greatly admired by the exhibition’s curators, Paul Hallahan and Lee Welch.

O’Nolan wrote under several pseudonyms. As Myles na gCopaleen, he produced a long-running satirical column in the Irish Times and published the Irish language novel An Béal Bocht. And as Flann O’Brien, he published the iconic novels At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman, which inspired a major exhibition Hallahan and Welch curated at Dublin Castle early last year.