Smurfit Art Collection
Dublin

Michael Carroll Collection
Dalkey, Co. Dublin

Rev. Prof. E.F. O'Doherty Col
Newman House, Dublin

Elizabeth Guinness Collection
Dublin

Office of Public Works Coll.
Dublin

Department Of Foreign Affairs
Collection, Dublin

City Of Boston Public Libraries,MA, USA

Galway County Council Collection

Mayo Co Council, Archetectutral Department.

Awards:-

2004 Galway County Council - Exhibition Assistance & Materials Award
Arts Council of Ireland "Art Flight" to Chicago.
Arts Council of Ireland "Art Flight" to Copenhagen.
Artist in residencce, Joensuu Print Workshop, Finland
RHA O'Sullivan Graphic supplie: Award for work of distinction (print).

Open & Juried Exhibitions since 1985:-

Summer Exhibition Royal Academy London
Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin
Claremorris Open Co. Mayo
Printmakers Council Open Whiteley's London
The Making of Prints Open Wakefield
Miniprint de Cadaques Spain
Limerick Smallprint
Impressions Galway
Black Church Print Studio selected shows Dublin
Oiceachtas, Dublin
"Living Landscape", Skibbereen(invitation)
Work also shown in US, Sweeden, Latvia, France & Spain

Member of award-winning Artists group, AKIN, Galway

Five solo shows 1985 - to date

2002-2004 Atlantic group shows,
Atlantic cooperative gallery, Clifden, Co. Galway.

2002 Atlantic group show

City Hall, Galway.

2001 Atlantic group show

Clifden Station House Hotel, Clifden, Co. Galway.

Limerick Printmakers open submission show 2005 Ireland.

Margaret Irwin is a founder member of the group Atlantic Art, Atlantic artists cooperative which ran a combined studio space and gallery at Clifden Station House Co Galway for three years, and which continues to be an exhibiting group.

Education:-

Trinity College Dublin
Studio Andre Lhote, Paris
NCAD

Private collections in the USA, Spain, Sweden, France, UK and Ireland.