Dr Éimear O’Connor HRHA is an art historian, curator, lecturer, art advisor and archivist. She was born and lives in Dublin, Ireland. O’Connor began her professional career as a visual artist and has exhibited in Ireland, Denmark and North America. She specialised in site-specific work, and has also designed album covers, book covers and stage settings.
She has published books and catalogues, and several articles and reviews on Irish art. Her books include Seán Keating: Art, Politics and Building the Nation (2013) and Art, Ireland and the Diaspora: Dublin, Chicago and New York 1893-1951 (2020). She is currently the Director of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Monaghan.
The Irish Influence is an initiative by Boston College Ireland and Irish Studies at Boston College, and kindly supported by the Consulate General of Ireland in Boston.