Kathleen Lynn;
Insider on the Outside

Catherine Marshall, curator of the exhibition entitled: Kathleen Lynn: Insider on the Outside, writes about McNulty’s images:

“Her art rescues the overlooked incidental details and the timeless immutability of the historical object. McNulty continues with this thread to examine the museum and the archive itself as art object. The Museum becomes the receptacle for the trace of what is left of a life lived – in this case the life of Kathleen Lynn. An exploration of Dr Lynn’s archived belongings becomes a fulcrum for the words, handwriting and fingerprints of Sylvia Pankhurst, Michael Collins and Helena Molony. The traces of Lynn’s life that are contained within the context of the Museum and Archive manage to bind together the disparate influences that brought about the Rising; the labour, nationalist and feminist movements”.