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22nd Annual Ernie O’ Malley Lecture Dr. Michael Doorley on “Justice Daniel Cohalan”

October 16, 12.30pm EST/5.30pm GMT Justice Daniel Cohalan, or the ‘Judge’ as he became known, is best remembered today for his tempestuous relationship with Irish nationalist leader Éamon de Valera during the latter’s visit to the United States in 1919-1920. Cohalan deserves more attention than this and the story of his life as an American politician and Irish-American nationalist encapsulates…

Histories Hidden in Paint from Manet to Picasso: Re-examining the Thannhauser Collection‎

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has published a comprehensive study of its core holdings of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art. Thannhauser Collection:French Modernism at the Guggenheim brings to light revelatory new scholarship on the history of the German-Jewish Thannhauser family and galleries and, more broadly, the cultural milieu of Europe in the first decades of the twentieth century. Featuring…