The intellectual
milieu was further deepened by «
cultural Catholics»
whose intellectual and imaginative framework had been shaped by their religious training — writers such as Eugene O'Neill, John O'Hara, J. V. Cunningham, James T. Farrell, John Fante, Mary McCarthy, and John Ciardi, as well as — at the end of this period — John Kennedy Toole and Belfast - born Brian Moore.
The exhibition is the first solo show dedicated to an African artist at IMMA and continues a strand of programming presenting artists from the periphery,
whose socially engaged work documents a moment in time in a particular
cultural milieu.