Niamh Ann Kelly was born in Galway and is a lecturer in Visual Culture at the Dublin School of Creative Arts, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland. At the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, she studied Fine Art Painting and the History of Art at BA level and the History of Art at MA level by research. She received her PhD at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam. She has published widely on her ongoing research interests of contemporary art, the history of art and commemorative visual cultures of monuments, museums and heritage practices.
Niamh Ann Kelly combines detailed research, theory, and meticulous language to discuss the ‘grievous history’ and enduring legacy of the Irish famine and its impact on modern-day social and cultural concerns... the author’s scholarship and range of argument makes a noteworthy contribution to visual culture studies, trauma studies, famine studies, Irish studies, and art historical and historical studies. * The Irish Arts Review *