Bob Geldof, Mick Foley and more to close Famine exhibition in Skibbereen

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06 Sep 18

No Fee 7-3-18…. World’s Largest Collection of Famine-Related Art launched by President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins at Dublin Castle . Pic shows President Higgins with John L. Lahey, President of Quinnipiac University in front of a Micheal Farrell piece Black 47 as he tours the Famine related exhibition held in the Coach House in Dublin Castle. President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins launched Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger, the world’s largest collection of art relating to the Great Famine, at a reception at Dublin Castle. Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger will open to the public tomorrow, Thursday March 8th and will be on display at The Coach House in Dublin Castle through June; between July and October it will be shown at Uilinn: West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen, before moving to Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin in Derry in 2019. Admission is free. The collection’s permanent home, Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University, Connecticut has brought this special collection to Ireland for the first time. The exhibition containing 50 artworks from some of Ireland’s most eminent artists including Jack B. Yeats, Alanna O’Kelly, Robert Ballagh and William Crozier. Pic Maxwell’s - No Repro Fee 7-3-18
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By: Peter McGoran

Bob Geldof, Katharine Crouan, Dorothy Cross, Mick Foley and Peter Murray to close the exhibition with special event in Skibbereen Town Hall this October.

The world’s largest collection of famine related art, currently on show in Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre, has attracted unprecedented numbers to Skibbereen.

Coming Home: Art and The Great Hunger, on loan from Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, constitutes a direct link to the past of almost 6.5 million Irish, and 40 million Irish-American, people. The exhibition, which was seen by more than 58,000 in Dublin Castle, opened in Uillinn in late July and continues there until Saturday, October 13th, before moving to The Glassworks in Derry where it will open early next year.

Ryan Mahoney, Director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac said that they were “honoured to have brought Coming Home: Art and The Great Hunger to Skibbereen. It has always been the goal of Quinnipiac University to bring the collection back to Ireland. To include Skibbereen on the tour, an area that is synonymous with the Great Hunger, was important to all involved with this project.”