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Róisín Kennedy is lecturer in the School of Art History and Cultural Policy at University College Dublin. She is co-editing Sources in Irish Art 2. A reader, which will be published by Cork University Press in 2021. Her most recent publication is Art and the Nation State. The reception of Modern Art in Ireland (Liverpool University Press, 2021).