The painting The Liffey Swim by Jack Yeats captures an event that has been part of Dublin’s annual sporting calendar since 1920. It will come as no surprise to aesthetes that the only medals gained by Ireland at the 1924 Olympic Games were not won in sport. Jack Yeats took silver in Open Painting with his piece The Liffey Swim, which hangs in The National Gallery in Dublin, and the bronze medal went to Oliver St John Gogarty in Open Literature for his Ode to the Tailteann Games. Doffing the cap to those medallists of almost 100 years ago, Irish...