Seán Keating was an Irish romantic-realist painter who painted some iconic images of the Irish War of Independence and of the early industrialization of Ireland. He spent two weeks or so each year during the late summer on the Aran Islands and his many portraits of island people depicted them as rugged heroic figures.
Self-portrait in the Hunt Museum
Men of the South, 1921–22, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork.
An Allegory, 1924, National Gallery of Ireland.
Mural on Labour (1961) at the Centre William Rappard in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Aran Islands or The Arans are a group of three islands at the mouth of Galway Bay, off the west coast of Ireland, with a total area around 46 km2 (18 sq mi). They constitute the historic barony of Aran in County Galway.
Teampall Brecan, Inishmore
A view over the karst landscape on Inishmore, from Dún Aonghasa, an ancient stone fort
Coastal boulder deposits on the west coast of Inishmore. Person standing next to the large boulder on the bedrock platform gives a sense of scale. This is about 16 m above sea level and 90 m inland.
A view over Inishmore, from Dún Eochla, with Inishmaan and Cliffs of Moher in the background