In this podcast, a welcome address by the symposium organiser Dr Roisin Kennedy, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Irish Art at the UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy.

Art and Reality: The Role of Visual Culture in the post-independent state

Roisin Kennedy. Introduction to Art and Reality: The Role of Visual Culture in the post-independent state.

This UCD symposium examined the role of visual culture in constructing and critiquing the Irish Free State and national identity in the aftermath of political independence. The symposium took place in the UCD Humanities Institute on 19 October 2018 and was a joint initiative between the UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy and NIVAL, The National Irish Visual Arts Library. The symposium was funded by UCD Decade of Centenaries. Podcasting by Real Smart Media.

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Art and Reality: The Role of Visual Culture in the post-independent state