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Exhibition: An Gorta Mór: Selections from Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum

Exhibition organized by Quinnipiac University and the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield This exhibition presents highlights from the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, which explores the impact of the Irish Famine of 1845-1852 through artwork produced by eminent Irish and Irish-American artists of the past 170 years. The works on view in the exhibition will include paintings by late 19th- and early 20th‐century artists like James Brenan, Daniel Macdonald, James Arthur O’Connor and Jack B. Yeats, as well…

when

June 11, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm

where

200 Barlow Rd
Fairfield, CT 06824 United States

cost

Free

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Fairfield University Art Museum

203.254.4000 ext. 2726

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Exhibition organized by Quinnipiac University and the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield

This exhibition presents highlights from the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, which explores the impact of the Irish Famine of 1845-1852 through artwork produced by eminent Irish and Irish-American artists of the past 170 years. The works on view in the exhibition will include paintings by late 19th- and early 20th‐century artists like James Brenan, Daniel Macdonald, James Arthur O’Connor and Jack B. Yeats, as well as sculptures, paintings, and works on paper by contemporary artists including John Behan, Rowan Gillespie, Brian Maguire, and Hughie O’Donoghue.

On view in the Walsh Gallery, April 11 – August 16, 2025.

James Arthur O’Connor, Scene in Connemara, 1828, oil on canvas. Courtesy of Quinnipiac University and the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield

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