And we're off! @katymilligan is thanking @petergray47 for the invite to speak at the @IrishStudiesQUB seminar & the @IrishResearch council for the funding that enabled her to finish her @ManchesterUP book, #PaintingDublin #IrishStudies #LoveIrishResearch

Katy is setting up the context for her book, which fills a gap in an Irish (art) history that has tended to privilege the 'field rather than the street' (she's quoting @ABearPursuesMe & Richard Butler there); there's usually a focus on rural & sea scenes

Katy is also doing an excellent job making clear the #interdisciplinary reach of her scholarship, drawing clear parallels for others in different areas of #IrishStudies, esp. urban history & literary studies.

And @katymilligan is doing a fantastic job pulling together different archival and other sources for comparison to talk about Dublin, children, class and 'picturesque poverty'.

Now we are hearing about Rose Barton - love @katymilligan's work championing #WomanArtists, much like @AnnaLiesching's efforts to celebrate under-appreciated #WomanArtists, from Ireland and beyond!

look at this dapper image of Jack Yeats! Katy says she likes to include an image of the artist (or ) so we can imagine them at work.

*Love* this image from a Jack Yeats' sketchbook of a tattooist's shop. @katymilligan says it is hard to find sources/history about tattooing in Dublin, but found a tattooist shop on Ormond Quay, opening up Yeats' work to maritime history & illustrating Dublin was a city of trade

Now Estella Solomons, who is such a fascinating figure. One of a handful of Irish Jewish figures involved in nationalist politics in the early C20th, Solomons joined the Gaelic League & then the Ranelagh branch of Cumann na mBan. #WomanArtists

Concluding with Flora Mitchell, whose work is just so beautiful. Look at this astonishing ink & watercolour of Patrick Street #WomanArtists

Great question from @CarolineMcGee about Harry Kernoff and a shout out to how brilliant @katymilligan's book is - Caroline says she read it in two sittings! The book, #PaintingDublin, is published by @ManchesterUP https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526144102/ 

Another great question from @trishaokessler about the relationships/networks (or not) between Estella Solomons, Harry Kernoff & Leventhal

There was a mention of research by @RiannCoulter & Róisín Kennedy uncovering work by Irish artists in the 1950s - countering a narrative that there wasn't much happening.

And a cracking final question from @ElizaaDoesalot about the role of dress/fashion/costume in this body of art. What a brilliant paper and Q&A session. Thanks, @katymilligan!