Seeing Ireland

Prompted by the centennial commemoration of the 1922 Paris Exposition d’Art Irlandais, Seeing Ireland explores the intersection of art and politics in the century that followed. While the Irish Revival of the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century is often associated with literary figures such as Joyce and Yeats, Seeing Ireland’s focus on visual arts sheds new light on a pivotal era of Irish cultural and national development. The collection explores the 1922 Paris diaspora congress and