The Portrait of Róisín Dhu – Dorothy Macardle (1924)

(For S.H.) It was a year after the artist was drowned that the loan exhibition of Hugo Blake’s paintings was opened in Philadelphia by Maeve. “Whom the gods love die young,” people said. To remember those paintings is like remembering a dream-life spent with the Ever-living in an Ireland untrodden by men. Except once he …