Tullig Village, Kilrush, Co. Clare, 2006/1849
‘The abandoned village of Tullig’, taken from
the Illustrated London News of 15 December 1849
CINDY O’DELL
March 10 – April 6, 2014
Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts Gallery
In Messengers of Yesterday, photography professor Cynthia O’Dell explores the legacy of Ireland’s 1845-1852 famine, also known as An Gorta Mór (The Great Hunger), and the perpetual migration narrative that has shaped Ireland’s identity since that great trauma.