of the Irish government's tax-free status to creative artists brought into effect in 1969, stating that it would bring "the art parasites of Europe" to Ireland. MacGonigal served as a governor and guardian of the National Gallery of Ireland, and in 1970 was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from the National University of Ireland. In 1971 he sat on the advisory committee of the Project Art Centre, Dublin, and from 1972 was an elected member of the Water Colour Society of Ireland. The Limerick City Gallery of Art holds a self portrait of MacGonigal, and in 1991 the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art held a major retrospective exhibition of his work. Selected works The beach at Renvyle (1930) Manannán Mac Lir series (1932) commissioned by Irish Hospitals' Trust Dockers (1934) A Dublin studio (c.1935) Mural for the Irish pavilion at the New York world's fair (1939) The rescue from the prison van at Manchester (1940–46) An gorta (The famine) (1946) A summer's day (1948) Early morning, Connemara (Mannin Bay) (1965) Stony beach, Feothanach (1972) Races, Ballyconneely, Co. Galway (1976) References External links 1900 births 1979 deaths 20th-century Irish painters Irish male painters Olympic competitors in art competitions Painters from Dublin (city) 20th-century Irish male artists