US exhibition of work by 19th century Cork artist MacDonald

Des O’Sullivan reviews a forthcoming show of work by the artist who was brave enough to paint the Famine. 

The Cork artist Daniel MacDonald is the focus of a landmark exhibition at Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum in the US from January 20 to April 17.

In a catalogue note, the museum, at Quinnipiac University, Connecticut, says MacDonald was the only Irish artist audacious enough to paint the Famine while it was happening.