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Dr Éimear O’Connor; ‘Images & Imagination, Creating Ireland at Home and Abroad’

Price

Tickets €10
Doors 2.30pm, Talk at 3pm

Book Tickets

Dates

09/09/2023
2:30 pm

Location

Farmleigh House and Gardens

Independent Ireland had long been imagined and envisioned by writers, painters, playwrights, poets, and musicians before the Treaty of Independence. How then, did Ireland present itself through the arts in the decades following independence? With reference to photographs of events in the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s, and paintings by many artists of the era, O’Connor’s talk will highlight aspects of the previously imagined nation, before addressing various artistic responses to cultural, socio-economic, and political conditions at home and abroad as post-Treaty Ireland delivered itself into existence.

 

 

She is an honorary member of the RHA and the RUA, and the is the Director of The Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig.

Dr Éimear O’Connor is an art historian and visual arts curator. She is author of Seán Keating: Art, Politics, and Building the Irish Nation (2013), and Art, Ireland, and the Irish Diaspora. Chicago, Dublin, New YorkCulture, Connections and Controversies (2020), which was awarded the inaugural Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize for a book on Irish America by the American Conference of Irish Studies (2021). She has published chapters, articles, catalogue essays and reviews on Irish art and culture for publications in Ireland, England, America, and France, and has lectured in cultural institutions and universities at home and abroad. The predominant concerns in her research are the complex national and international contexts pertaining to the construction of Irish visual identity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

She is an honorary member of the RHA and the RUA, and the is the Director of The Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig.

 

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