Learn about the impact made by Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University

 



Ireland - Helen Bennett

HAMDEN – The impact made by Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University in its first five years will be the topic at a discussion by the museum’s founding curator, Niamh O’Sullivan, at 6 p.m. Sept. 27, at the museum, 3011 Whitney Ave., according to a release.

 

The lecture is free and open to the public, but registration is required, the release said. Go to ighm.org to register. O’Sullivan also will talk about the museum's plan for future exhibitions when she kicks off the museum’s celebration of its fifth anniversary, the release said. 

 



The Hunger Museum - Helen Bennett

A reception will follow the lecture at 6:45 p.m. Guests to this lecture are asked to bring canned foods to be donated to the Connecticut Food Bank. 

 

O’Sullivan, who earned a doctorate at the University College Dublin, and a master’s degree from the University College London, also is professor emeritus of Visual Culture at the National College of Art and Design in Ireland, the release said.

 

The Hunger Museum - Helen Bennett

"Formerly head of education at the National Gallery of Ireland, she curated “The Eyes of a Child” (National Gallery of Ireland, 1979) and the first retrospective exhibitions of Aloysius O’Kelly (Hugh Lane, 2000), and Daniel Macdonald (IGHM, 2016). Among her various accomplishments, O’Sullivan is also an award-winning scholar. Her publications include “Aloysius O’Kelly: Art, Nation, Empire” (2010), “The Tombs of a Departed Race: Illustrations of Ireland’s Great Hunger” (2014) and “In the Lion’s Den: Daniel Macdonald, Ireland and Empire” (2016). "

 

Also in the release: "Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University is home to the world's largest collection of visual art, artifacts and printed materials relating to the Irish Famine. The museum preserves, builds and presents its art collection to stimulate reflection, inspire imagination and advance awareness of Ireland's Great Hunger and its long aftermath on both sides of the Atlantic."

 

 



Ireland - Helen Bennett

The museum is open Wednesdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sundays, 1-5 p.m. Museum admission is free.

 

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