Talk: Dr Nessa Cronin

Join Dr Nessa Cronin, Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at the University of Galway, for a talk exploring the Tim Robinson Archive, reflecting on its mapping of landscape, language, and enduring cultural significance.

usual and generous ways is an exhibition of works from the National Collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art curated by poet Padraig Regan, Galway Arts Centre’s inaugural Writer in Residence. It brings together works by artists from Ireland and elsewhere, across a range of media, in which stone is not simply a material shaped by the artist’s hand, but becomes subject matter, an object of inquiry, and an agent to think with and through.

Dr Nessa Cronin is Head of Irish Studies at the Centre for Irish Studies, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, University of Galway, Ireland. As an interdisciplinary scholar with a background in Continental Philosophy and Irish Literature her recent work in Environmental Humanities has critically examined the role of humanities research and arts practice in addressing the existential challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss. She has contributed to international public fora and national government policy on the critical role that the arts and humanities can play in bridging the gap between climate ambition and climate action.

This talk takes place as part of our late night programme “Gallery Lates” supported by Galway City Council and the Department of Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sports as part of the Galway City Night-Time Economy Action Plan.

 Image: Detail from Curator’s research material