Jack B Yeats painted sport right at the centre of life

Yeats won a silver medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics for a painting entitled, ‘The Liffey Swim’.

The National Gallery of Ireland’s newest exhibition – ‘Jack B. Yeats: Painting & Memory’ – opened in September. Happily supported by Key Capital, the opening of the largest exhibition of Yeats’s oil paintings in 50 years coincides with the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of Ireland’s most important artists. Pictured ahead of the exhibition’s opening is the artist’s grandniece, Caitriona Yeats. 

Jimmy Magee provided the soundtrack to some of the most brilliant moments in Irish sport. He rarely failed to capture the emotion of a moment.

And so it was when John Treacy turned around the track in the final yards of the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1984.