Dr Sinead McCann: Receives Two Arts Council Awards

We're delighted to announce that Dr Sinead McCann of the UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland (CHOMI) has received two prestigious funding awards from the Arts Council of Ireland for her projects 'Health Inside' and 'The Trial'.

Pictured from left to right: Dr Sinead McCann (UCD CHOMI), Dr Orlaith McBride
(Director, Arts Council of Ireland), and Associate Professor Catherine Cox (Director,
 UCD CHOMI). Photograph taken at the announcement of the recipients of the Arts
Council of Ireland's Open Call programme awards, July 2017.

Sinead, a noted Irish visual artist, received these awards in her role as a Public Engagement Officer on the Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award project, Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850–2000. This project is led by co-Principal Investigators Associate Professor Catherine Cox, Director of UCD CHOMI, and Professor Hilary Marland, Director of the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick.

Inside Health: Thinking about Prisoners' Right to Healthcare

Health Inside: Thinking about Prisoners' Right to Healthcare is a new public art project, due for exhibition in June 2018, which will focus on health and welfare provision in Irish and English prisons. The project is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland under its Open Call programme. The Open Call programme funds one-off ambitious artistic projects by some of Ireland's leading artists and arts organisations.

For further details see:

• Health Inside: Thinking about Prisoners' Right to Healthcare
• Arts Council Announces Projects Funded under Open Call Programme

The Trial

The Trial is the working title for a new visual art project due for public exhibition in April 2018. It will focus on health and welfare provision in Irish prisons and access to healthcare following release from prison. 

The project is funded by the Arts Council of Ireland under its Arts Participation Project Award scheme. The project will be led by Dr Sinead McCann, who will work collaboratively with historian Dr Holly Dunbar (UCD CHOMI), film-maker Mary Caffrey, and participants from the Bridge Project. The Bridge Project is a community-based organisation providing training and support programmes for high-risk violent ex-offenders in the greater Dublin Area. In April 2018, the team will produce a visual arts installation for public exhibition in Kilmainham Gaol Museum's Old Court Room.

For further details see:

• New Participatory Award Project: The Trial