TLRH | Seeing Ireland Launch | Art, Culture, and Power in Paris, 1922

Friday, 28 January 2022, 5 – 6:30pm An online webinar to celebrate
the launch of the new online exhibition 'Seeing Ireland' which will
explore one of the most important events in Irish art history:
Exposition D’Art Irlandais, held at Galerie Barbazanges in Paris in
Jan-February 1922. Guest speakers include H.E. Vincent Guérend,
French Ambassador to Ireland, Mick O’Dea, PPRHA, Sinéad Ní
Mhaonaigh, ARHA, Billy Shortall, Angela Griffith, Ciaran O’Neill.
The event will also feature a short virtual tour of the 3D
recreation of the original exhibition space developed by NoHo
Design. This event is organised in partnership with Trinity Long
Room Hub. Support is being provided by the Irish Government through
the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Decade of Centenaries
programme. About the exhibition 1922 was a seminal year for Ireland
and Irish identity: the modern Irish state was founded; James
Joyce's Ulysses was published in Paris; and the Irish Race
Congress, an international conference and accompanying Irish art
exhibition that was a reckoning of Irish identity politics, was
held in the French capital. As part of the decade of centenaries
commemorations an ambitious series of interlinked events and
exhibitions will take place in the Midwest US, Ireland, and
European capitals in 2022 to reflect on the events of 100 years
ago, to examine the journey Ireland and Irish identity have
travelled over the past century of statehood, and to look ahead to
Ireland’s next century. In January, an online exhibition at the
Trinity Long Room Hub organised by Prof Ciaran O’Neill and Dr Billy
Shortall (School of Histories and Humanities) will interrogate one
of the most important events in Irish art history: Exposition D’Art
Irlandais, opened at Galerie Barbazanges in Paris in January 1922.
The Exposition, associated with the World Congress, featured
established and emerging talent in what would become known as the
‘Irish School of Art’. Artists as diverse as Sarah Purser, Jack
Yeats, Sean Keating, John Lavery, Lily Yeats, and Constance
Markievicz displayed nationalist work in an overt attempt to
legitimate a postcolonial presence in the global field for Irish
art and crafts. This new exhibition—an immersive experience and 3D
recreation of the original exhibition space-- will recreate,
remember, and question this foundational moment in Irish art
history. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/