After his visits to Brittany Lamb made two trips to north-west Ireland in 1912 and 1913. It was during this time that he visited the tiny island of Gola, off the coast of Donegal. Like Brittany, Gola was an inspiring environment, speaking of an older, simpler world. Again, Lamb stayed in the home of a local farming family. ‘I find myself in a paradise’, he wrote from there. ‘There are mountains, a lake, rocks, cliffs, caves and white strands: the people are more lovely and even more angelically dispositioned than on the mainland and certainly more sensible.’ He was delighted that they ‘all promise to sit for me. So I should pass a month agreeable enough even if the weather is bad: at present it is brilliant, only too breezy. The wind never drops [...]. This makes outdoor sketching out of the question [...].’

Lamb sent some of the oil portraits he made in Ireland to the third exhibition of the Camden Town Group, which opened in London in December 1912. Two works made during this visit, Head of an Irish Girl and Irish Girls, are now in the Tate collection.