The National CollegeVisual Culture Staff
Professor Niamh O'Sullivan,
BA, (NUI) MA, (London) PhD (NUI)
Head of Faculty, Visual Culture
osullivann[AT]ncad.ie
Professor Niamh O'Sullivan has research interests in the history of Irish and American art, nineteenth-century French art, graphic design, and art education. She is currently working on Irish-American art of the nineteenth century.
Selected publications include: Re:Orientations. Aloysius O'Kelly: Painting, Politics and Popular Culture, Dublin, 1999 The Iron Cage of Femininity' in Timothy P. Foley and Sean Ryder (eds), Ideology and Ireland in the Nineteenth-Century, Dublin, 1998 Irlande, La Vie Culturelle, Le Centre de Recherches Historiques, University of Louvain, 1989 (commissioner and contributor) Children's Art Catalogue, Rosc (ed),1984.
She was art critic for the Sunday Tribune and has written for the Irish Times. She writes for CIRCA Art Magazine (and edited a number of issues on art education and visual identity); the Irish Literary Supplement; Eire-Ireland; History Ireland; and the Irish Arts Review.
Her recent book, Aloysius O'Kelly: Art, Nation, Empire, Field Day, was published in March 2010.
