Croker to cricket: how Jack B Yeats put Irish sport in the frame  

In terms of sport, it is clear that Jack B. Yeats was very familiar with Croke Park and had been going to the ground for years.

The Jack B Yeats painting 'Singing The Dark Rosaleen, Croke Park' (1921).

The National Gallery of Ireland has put on display the extraordinary Jack B. Yeats painting “Singing ‘The Dark Rosaleen’, Croke Park (1921)”.

The painting evokes the violent events of Bloody Sunday at Croke Park, the most notorious day in Irish sporting history.