Ireland and the British Empire; Essays on Art and Visuality

This collection of essays discusses how the British empire resonates in a huge array of visual culture in Ireland from the late eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth

Fintan Cullen is Professor Emeritus in the History of Art at the University of Nottingham. An art historian who specializes in the art and politics of Ireland’s relationship with Britain, his books include Visual Politics. The Representation of Ireland 1750-1930 (1997), The Irish Face. Redefining the Irish Portrait (2004), «Conquering England» Ireland in Victorian London (2005, with R. F. Foster), A Shared Legacy. Essays on Irish and Scottish Art and Visual Culture (2005, with John Morrison), Ireland on Show. Art, Union, and Nationhood (2012), and most recently an essay on «John Lavery and national pictures» for the exhibition catalogue, Studio and State. The Laverys and the Anglo-Irish Treaty (2021), and Sources in Irish Art 2. A Reader (2021, with Róisín Kennedy).