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SUMMARY:Lecture: The History of the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum Collection
DESCRIPTION:Curator Niamh O’Sullivan joins us from Dublin to recount the development of the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum. The museum formed part of Quinnipiac University in Hamden\, CT before its closure in 2022\, and will reopen in a new space in Fairfield\, CT in the future. \nAbout the Exhibition: 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. The exhibition is presented by Quinnipiac University and the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield Exhibition.\nThe event will also be livestreamed.  \nImage: Rowan Gillespie\, Statistic I\, 2010\, bronze. Courtesy Quinnipiac University and the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum Fairfield Exhibition.© Rowan Gillespie
URL:https://ctarttrail.org/event/lecture-the-history-of-the-irelands-great-hunger-museum-collection/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Fairfield University Art Museum":MAILTO:scipollaro@fairfield.edu
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