An Gorta Mór: Selections from Ireland's Great Hunger Museum
This guide was created as a partnership between the DiMenna-Nyselius Library and the Fairfield University Art Museum and provides additional resources and information on the artists and objects included in the Fairfield University Art Museum exhibition, An Gorta Mór: Selections from Ireland's Great Hunger Museum. On view April 11 – August 16, 2025 in the Walsh Gallery.
About the Exhibition
This exhibition presents highlights from the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, which explores the impact of the Irish Famine of 1845-1852 through artwork produced by eminent Irish and Irish-American artists of the past 170 years. The works on view in the exhibition will include paintings by late 19th- and early 20th‐century artists like James Brenan, Daniel Macdonald, James Arthur O'Connor and Jack B. Yeats, as well as sculptures, paintings, and works on paper by contemporary artists including John Behan, Rowan Gillespie, Brian Maguire, and Hughie O'Donoghue.
Faculty liaison: William Abbott, Associate Professor of History
Visit FUAM's website for exhibition related events.
Image: Sir Thomas Alfred Jones, Connemara Girls, ca. 1880, oil on canvas.
About Fairfield University Art Museum (FUAM)
An essential academic and cultural resource for students, faculty, and residents of the surrounding geographic community and region, the Fairfield University Art Museum (FUAM) offers meaningful opportunities for first-hand experience of original works of art and their unique historical resonance. We foster appreciation of the visual arts; cultivate cultural literacy and critical engagement; conserve, research, and impart knowledge about the collection in accordance with best scholarly and museum practices; and champion human creativity of all cultures and time periods.
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