Join us for a lively conversation where Dr Éimear O’Connor, contributor to Una Sealy, Time Lines, Selected Works 2016 – 2026 catalogue, will discuss the thoughts and processes behind the works in this major exhibition, with the artist.
Dr Éimear O’Connor HRHA, HRUA, Interim Director and Director of Collections and Access at the National Museum of Ireland. A noted art historian, visual arts curator, and author, with thirty-five years’ experience in the cultural sector, she is formerly a member of the Board of Directors of The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. O’Connor holds a BA and PhD from UCD, and an MBA first class from DIT.
She is the author of Seán Keating: Art, Politics and Building the Irish Nation (Irish Academic Press, 2013) and Art, Ireland, and the Irish Diaspora. Dublin to New York: Culture, Connections, and Controversies (Irish Academic Press, 2020), which was awarded the inaugural Lawrence J. McCaffrey Award for a book on Irish America by the American Conference of Irish Studies (2021). She is editor of Irish Women Artists: Familiar but Unknown (Four Courts Press, 2010), author of several chapters, articles, and catalogue essays on Irish art and artists in Ireland and further afield, and curator of major exhibitions in cultural institutions in Ireland.
O’Connor has lectured on Irish art and its complex contexts in cultural institutions in Ireland and America and is an honorary member of the RHA and the RUA. In 2022, she was appointed as Uachtarain na hÉireann/President of Ireland’s nominee to the Board of Directors of the Chester Beatty Library.
