{"product_id":"after-the-bombardment-easter-rising-1916-fine-art-print","title":"After the Bombardment — Easter Rising 1916 Fine Art Print","description":"\u003csection\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter the Bombardment — Easter Rising 1916 Fine Art Print\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the morning of Friday 28 April 1916, Dublin's greatest thoroughfare lay in ruins. This extraordinary painting by \u003cstrong\u003eArchibald McGoogan\u003c\/strong\u003e captures Sackville Street — now O'Connell Street — in the immediate aftermath of British artillery shelling during the \u003cstrong\u003eEaster Rising\u003c\/strong\u003e. Working from his own photographs and on-the-spot sketches, McGoogan created an image that is part eyewitness document, part elegy for a city transformed overnight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Painting\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfter the Bombardment\u003c\/em\u003e (1916) focuses on the ruined corner of Sackville Street and Bachelor's Walk, where Kelly's gunpowder shop has been reduced to rubble. Along the mid-ground, only fragments remain of what was once Dublin's premier commercial street — the facade of Clery's drapery warehouse, the outer walls of the Hibernian Bank, the shell of the D.B.C. premises. A dark, smoke-filled sky hangs over the scene. Almost hidden in the gloom, British marksmen fire across the street, while a machine-gunner operates from an improvised armoured car on O'Connell Bridge — Dublin-built vehicles that prefigured the tanks soon to appear on the Western Front.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMcGoogan exhibited the work at Combridge's gallery in Dublin in January 1917, within a year of the Rising. A widely circulated print of the painting carried the caption \u003cem\u003e\"The Holocaust of Ireland's Greatest Thoroughfare, Easter Week, 1916\"\u003c\/em\u003e — and it helped fix this image of a shattered Dublin in the Irish public imagination for generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe original oil on canvas (61.2 × 91.8 cm) is held in the permanent collection of the \u003cstrong\u003eNational Gallery of Ireland\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Artist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArchibald McGoogan (1866–1931) was an Irish painter, designer, and illustrator known for his documentary approach to significant historical subjects. His ability to combine on-the-ground observation with carefully composed atmospheric painting gave \u003cem\u003eAfter the Bombardment\u003c\/em\u003e an immediacy that purely photographic records of the period could not match.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCultural \u0026amp; Historical Significance\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Easter Rising of 1916 was the defining moment in Ireland's path to independence. In 2026, we mark the \u003cstrong\u003e110th anniversary\u003c\/strong\u003e of that week — and McGoogan's painting remains one of the most powerful visual records of what it cost. This fine art print brings a piece of that history into your home, reproduced to the highest archival standard from the National Gallery of Ireland's collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrint Details\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOpen edition fine art print\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted on 250gsm premium fine art paper\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLandscape format — maintains the proportions of the original painting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnframed, shipped flat in protective packaging\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFree shipping worldwide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e","brand":"Buy Irish Art","offers":[{"title":"30x45 cm \/ 12x18″ \/ Unframed Print \/ No Frame","offer_id":57160936423806,"sku":"1354b1dc-e3b7-4e9c-91c6-46a74f34ce52","price":75.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"30x45 cm \/ 12x18″ \/ Framed Print \/ Black","offer_id":57160936456574,"sku":"70512c05-e69d-401f-b5ed-4994acc6fc5e","price":165.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"30x45 cm \/ 12x18″ \/ Framed Print \/ White","offer_id":57160936489342,"sku":"90e95051-cc2a-4cd5-8445-6795f7270227","price":165.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"30x45 cm \/ 12x18″ \/ Framed Print \/ Wood","offer_id":57160936522110,"sku":"f1a9b386-1fcf-4abe-8ce1-3b1c6e8ccfd7","price":165.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"60x90 cm \/ 24x36″ \/ Unframed Print \/ No Frame","offer_id":57160936554878,"sku":"9c122ef9-df6a-4751-9718-ba443f0f61fd","price":179.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"60x90 cm \/ 24x36″ \/ Framed Print \/ Black","offer_id":57160936587646,"sku":"bb7143cd-3db9-4c0b-ba52-1224f7663413","price":399.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"60x90 cm \/ 24x36″ \/ Framed Print \/ White","offer_id":57160936620414,"sku":"04cd1790-ce5f-4964-b555-bdb6ed03a9ee","price":399.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"60x90 cm \/ 24x36″ \/ Framed Print \/ Wood","offer_id":57160936653182,"sku":"7185b368-e652-4769-a7c9-899a1ee77f65","price":399.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/8091\/4099\/files\/9b0e7ad9-3828-4eb4-8162-09eb6fbc74f7.png?v=1774385031","url":"https:\/\/www.buyirishart.com\/products\/after-the-bombardment-easter-rising-1916-fine-art-print","provider":"Buy Irish Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}