Patrick Ireland is an Irish conceptual and installation artist. He was born on County Roscommon in 1934 and lives and works in the United States. Patrick Ireland is not his original name, he changed his name from Brian O'Doherty in reaction to the Bloody Sunday killings in Derry in 1972. In The modern art collection, Trinity College Dublin, David Scott writes that This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Derry or Londonderry (in Irish, Doire or Doire Cholm Chille), often called the Maiden City, is a city in Northern Ireland. ...

"Much influenced by Marcel Duchamp he is an essentially interrogative artist, constantly questioning artistic conventions and the assumptions on which we base our aesthetic judgements."

He has also written novels: The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P. (1992) and the 2000 Booker Prize nominated The Deposition of Father McGreevey (1999). The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Man Booker Prize, or simply the Man Booker, is one of the worlds most important literary prizes, and awarded each year for the best original novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland in...

References

• David Scott (1989), The modern art collection, Trinity College Dublin. Dublin: Trinity College Dublin Press. ISBN 1871408016