And yet, as the Royal Hibernian Academy’s BogSkin exhibition shows, if you wanted to come up with a geographical feature that best represents the national psyche, it could well be the bog.

Ruth Medjeber Sarah McAuliffe is the Exhibitions Curator at the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Dublin. She carried out her undergraduate and master’s degrees at University College Cork (UCC), 2011 – ...

It was sent to Miss Purser (an artist at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Ireland): "Since back from Paris, moved to one of the big fighting places. Attended part of last Battle in the chalk country.