Depicting Irish History: Virtual Artist Talk

Join us for a conversation with artist Maureen O’Leary, historian Miriam Nyhan Grey, and curator Pamela Jean Tinnen as they discuss the history and impact of Ireland’s Easter Rising through the lens of O’Leary’s series Portraits of Ireland’s Easter Rising Leaders on view in Schwartz Plaza Vitrines through June 17, 2022.

Portraits of Ireland’s Easter Rising Leaders is an exhibition in collaboration with Glucksman Ireland House, NYU’s center for the study of Ireland and its diaspora. The Easter Rising, which began on April 24, 1916, marked a turning point in Ireland’s pathway towards independence and it is all the more fitting to reflect on 1916 as Ireland marks the centenary of the British handover of power in 1922. According to scholar Miriam Nyhan Grey, “Irish cultural and political nationalists, especially in New York, had worked assiduously for years to mobilize American opinion against the British presence in Ireland. Indeed, the United States of America provided an important post-colonial republican model and the Irish were cognisant of that revolutionary legacy.”