RTÉ Press Centre

Feature-length docu-drama written by Mark O’Halloran, directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan and starring Tom Vaughan Lawlor as Sir Hugh Lane. It tells the story of one of Ireland’s great philanthropists: aesthete, art collector and socialite Hugh Lane, and the ongoing controversy surrounding his disputed will in which he left a collection of Impressionist masterpieces to the city of Dublin. The drama is intercut with interviews from contemporary documentary contributors such as Professors Roy Foster and Paul Rouse and Art Historian Morna O’Neill, who offer a narrative richly illustrated by the paintings of Lane’s collection.