Date: Wednesday, 6th August 

 

Tutor: Maggie Knight BA Fine Art, MA History of Art, PhD History of Art, founded  the Adult Education section at the V&A Museum. She ran her own classes in art  and cultural history in London and is now teaching for The Arts Society and  leading tours to Europe and America. 

 

Description: Attempts to bring Ireland under the English Crown came to nothing until the  Tudor conquests of the 16th century followed by wars of religion and the  sponsored immigration of British Protestants to the north. In 1801, the Act of Union merged the Kingdom of Ireland with the Kingdom of  Great Britain, by this time the Catholic south was desperately poor, barely  touched by the industrial revolution and losing population to famines and mass  migration. 

 

The idea of Irish culture had become almost laughable, and the Irish people were  regularly depicted as illiterate peasants. Rebellions were inevitable and the  following century was punctuated by a series of military confrontations  culminating in the Easter Rising of 1916. With the unrest came a growing consciousness of Irish identity, a revival of the  Irish language and an astonishing flowering of the visual arts, literature and  drama.

 

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