The exhibition takes the visitor from the Dublin of the 1880s and 1890s—when Purser's cousin Walter Osborne and her friend John Butler Yeats, father of the poet WB Yeats and the artist Jack B ...

They had a passion for Irish art at a time when it was far from fashionable ... they exhibited works by John Lavery, John Luke, Walter Osborne, Paul Henry, Jack B Yeats and Louis Le Brocquy.

Part of an astonishing generation of British actors, including Judi Dench,​ Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith​ ...

After high school, she studied at the Laban Art of Movement Studio in Manchester ... by the so-called Angry Young Men, such as John Osborne, who were giving British theater a thorough airing ...