This UCD symposium examined the role of visual culture in constructing and critiquing the Irish Free State and national identity in the aftermath of political independence. The symposium took place in the UCD Humanities Institute on 19 October 2018 and was a joint initiative between the UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy and NIVAL, The National Irish Visual Arts Library. The symposium was funded by UCD Decade of Centenaries. Podcasting by Real Smart Media.

Latest episodes of the podcast Art and Reality: The Role of Visual Culture in the post-independent state

• Roisin Kennedy. Introduction to Art and Reality: The Role of Visual Culture in the post-independent state.
• Eimear O'Connor. Sean Keating and the Art of Nation Building.
• Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch. Expressions of Nationhood in Bronze and Stone: Albert Power RHA.
• Fionna Barber. The Vibrant Studio: Margaret Clarke's performative femininities and 1920s painting.
• Elaine Sisson. Irish Modernity in Fancy Dress - The Costume Balls of the 1920s.
• Hilary O'Kelly. Dress in Our Boy's in the Independence Period, c.1910-40.
• Orla Fitzpatrick. The National Museum of Ireland and the Metropolitan School of Art.
• William Shortall. The Chicago World's Fair 1933.
• Stephen O'Neill. The Visual Culture of Partition in the North of Ireland.
• Angela Griffith. James Crompton Walker's 'Irish Life and Landscape'.
• Conor Linnie. The Klaxon.