Seeing Ireland

Ciaran O'Neill is associate professor of nineteenth-century history at Trinity College Dublin. He is the co-director of the Trinity Colonial Legacies Project. His most recent books include Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland and Ireland, Slavery and the Caribbean (co-edited with Finola O'Kane).
Billy Shortall is a research fellow at the Irish Art Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin, and co-developed a virtual re-creation and art exhibition of the 1922 Paris World Congress (www.seeingireland.ie). He recently contributed chapters to the Routledge Companion to Irish Art and Hilary Heron, A Retrospective.

Foreword by Professor Joe Cleary (Yale)
Introduction: Irish Art in Transnational Context, Billy Shortall and Ciaran O'Neill (TCD)
1. The International Treaty debates: the Irish Race Congress, Darragh Gannon (UCD)
2. Exhibiting Ireland. Art and culture on show in Paris 1922, Billy Shortall. (TCD)
3. Dublin, London, Paris: Exhibition Culture and the Shaping of an Irish School, 1842 – 1922, Kathryn Milligan (UCD)
4.The Irish Race Congress of 1922 and the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement, Paul Larmour (QUB)
5. 'Searching for Truth' From realism to materiality: Visual art in the Post-independent Irish state, Roisin Kennedy (UCD)
6. Illustrating the Saorstát Éireann Irish Free State Official Handbook: meaning, making and materiality, Angela Griffith (TCD)
7. Artwashing the Nation Brand: the instrumentalization of art during the Decade of Centenaries in Ireland 2012-23, Ciaran O'Neill (TCD)
8. A conversation about arts and culture during the Decade of Centenaries, Vera Klute and Martina Devlin