Fear an Airgead/Fear na nDán, Nenagh District Heritage Centre, Saturday October 11th, 11:45am, FREE (booking required)
Gaeilge:
Staraí agus scoláire is ea Úna Ní Bhroiméil. Bhí sí ina léachtóir le stair Mheiriceá i Roinn na Staire i gColáiste Mhuire gan Smál Luimneach 1996-2023. Is údar í ar Building Irish Identity in America 1870-1914: The Gaelic Revival agus ar go leor altanna ar na nuachtáin GhaelMheiriceánacha agus ar chartúin pholaitiúla. Bhí sí ina láithreoir ar sraith 2 de Tríd an Lionsa ar TG4 2018-19 agus is minic a chloistear í ar Thús Áite agus ar An tSeachtain ar Raidió na Gaeltachta agus ar 7 Lá ar TG4 ag labhairt ar stair agus ar pholaitíocht Mheiriceá. Tá sí ag scriobh leabhar faoi láthair ar an dlíodóir GaelMheiriceánach John Quinn a bhí ina phátrún agus ina bhróicéir cumhachtach go luath sa bhfichiú chéad i Nua Eabhrac.
English:
Úna Ní Bhroiméil is an Irish historian and academic. She was a lecturer, specialising in in American history, at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick 1996-2023. She is the author of Building Irish Identity in America 1870-1914: The Gaelic Revival and has published articles extensively in Irish American journals and newspapers. She presented the second series of TG4’s documentary “Tríd an Lionsa” 2018-19 and is a regular contributor on the subject of American history and politics to TG4’s “7 lá”, Raidió na Gaeltachta’s “Tús Áite” and “An tSeachtain”. She is currently working on a book about the Irish American lawyer, John Quinn, who was an art collector and powerful patron in early 20th century New York.
TICKETS:
This event is FREE but spaces are limited so please book to ensure your place.
John Quinn – Irish American, Patron, and Powerbroker.
John Quinn (1870-1924) was known in the Ireland of his time as ‘The man from New York’ a supporter of cultural nationalism, organiser of the American tours of W,B. Yeats and Douglas Hyde, and as a financial wellspring for Irish causes. In the United States he was an extremely busy and successful corporate lawyer. But Quinn ultimately became best known as a patron of the arts and as an art collector. A patron of key literary figures such as Yeats, Synge, and Joyce as well as Conrad, T.S Eliot, Ford Maddox Ford and Ezra Pound, he began collecting contemporary art in the early twentieth century and amassed a significant collection, particularly of the work of contemporary European artists such as Picasso, Derain, Matisse, Duchamp and Brancusi as well as English and Irish artists such as Augustus John, Jack Yeats and Nathaniel Hone.
In this talk I will consider Quinn in the context of his time, the place he inhabits and his contacts, his activities during World War One and his attitudes to his fellow Irish Americans. I will offer an understanding of Quinn’s role in the cultural life of America and of Irish America at a particular time and place and how he operated at the nexus of wealth, power and modernity in New York at the beginning of the twentieth century.
John Quinn, Gael-Mheirceánach, Pátrún, agus Bróicéir Cumhachta.
Bhí cur amach ar John Quinn (1870-1914) in Éirinn le linn a shaoil mar ‘The man from New York’ de bharr an tacaíocht agus an t-airgead a bhronn sé ar chúiseanna chultúrtha Gaelacha agus toisc gur eagraigh sé turasanna W.B. Yeats agus Dubhghlas de hÍde chuig Stáit Aontaithe Mheirceá. Sa bhaile, i Nua Éabhrach, ba dhlodóir chorporáideach mór le rá é, ach bhí eolas níba’ fhearr air mar phátrún agus mar bhailitheoir litríochta agus ealaíne. Bhí sé mar phátrún ar Yeats, Synge, and Joyce chomh maith le Conrad, T.S Eliot, Ford Maddox Ford agus Ezra Pound. Ag tús na fichiú aoise, thosaigh sé ag bailiú nua-ealaín chomhaimseartha na hEorpa ar nós Picasso, Derain, Matisse, Duchamp agus Brancusi maraon le healaóntóirí Sasanacha agus Éireannacha Augustus John, Jack Yeats agus Nathaniel Hone.
Déanfaidh mé plé sa léacht seo ar Quinn ina chomhthéacs chomhaimseartha – an chathair inar chónaigh sé, na daoine ar bhuail sé leo, na rudaí a rinne sé le linn Chogadh Domhanda a haon, agus an dearcadh a bhí aige I leith na nGael-Mheirceánach. Déanfaidh mé iniúchadh ar an bpáirt a ghlac sé i saol cultúrtha Mheirceá agus Ghaeil-Mheirceá ag am faoi leith ag tús na fichiú aoise agus é ag feidhmiú i gcroílár an ghustail, na cumhachta, agus na nua-aoiseachta i Nua Eabhrac.