Art Historian Dr Matthew Whyte offers a new lecture series, which takes the audience on an art-filled journey through the often beautiful, sometimes scandalous, and always fascinating moments in the development of Western civilisation.

The lectures can be attended as a series, but are also designed as standalone talks, which can be attended individually.

This lecture examines Irish art in the early stages of modernity, focusing on how travel and sustained encounters with European modern art helped shape a distinctly Irish artistic response.

As artists studied, lived, and exhibited abroad, they absorbed new approaches to form, colour, and subject matter, while also negotiating questions of national identity and cultural independence.