Documenting Modernity: Seán Keating, the Shannon Scheme and Beyond

Dr Éimear O’Connor is an art historian, curator, writer and lecturer. A specialist in Irish art, O’Connor is a Research Associate with TRIARC-Irish Art Research Centre, TCD. She has lectured on various aspects of Irish and European art in cultural and academic institutions in Ireland and America. She is author of Seán Keating: Responses to Culture and Politics in Post-Civil War Ireland (Dublin 2009) and editor of Irish Women Artists: Familiar But Unknown (Dublin 2010). Her monograph, Seán Keating: Art, Politics and Building the Nation, is forthcoming with Irish Academic Press (spring 2013).