Barbara Dawson isn’t opposed to causing a stir. In fact, she’s made a very good career out of it. As director of the Hugh Lane Gallery, she’s been making headlines since her appointment in 1991. She doesn’t seek out interviews, preferring instead to let her work do the talking. Dawson amassed her initial column inches as the first woman to assume the title of director in the history of the municipal art gallery and the ‘first known public gallery of modern art in the world’. “I was very young, but decided to go for it,” she says. “It was a…

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