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SUMMARY:In Conversation with Bob Quinn
DESCRIPTION:In Conversation with Bob Quinn \n‘Huston Main’\, Huston School of Film & Digital Media\, Thursday September 14th\, 2:30pm \n \nJames Thurber wrote of himself: ‘Easy to rouse\, he is hard to quiet and people usually just go away.’ The same might be said of Bob Quinn. Under the title ‘Cinegael’\, and for nearly four decades\, in words and images\, Bob Quinn has recorded life in the West of Ireland\, especially in the Conamara Gaeltacht. He has been called a ‘talented eccentric’ (by Ken Gray\, Irish Times) a ‘maverick’ (by corporate RTE & the late Jim Kemmy)\, and was a key figure in the emergence of a distinctive Irish film culture from the 1970s onwards. He has filmed and photographed from Tatarstan to Morocco\, from India to the United States. His work has been exhibited from Galway to Los Angeles\, from Moscow to Missouri. Apart from his film work\, he has been published by Quartet Books (London & New York)\, O’Brien Press\, (Dublin)\, Brandon Press\, (Kerry)\, Lilliput Press (Dublin) and Cló Iar-Chonnacht\, (Galway). \nThe film and video company\, Cinegael\, which with Seosamh Ó Cuaig and Toni Cristofides he founded in 1973\, concentrated on the Gaeltacht of Conamara. Quinn still sees this Irish-speaking area in the West of Ireland as the grain of sand which\, in the William Morris sense\, contains and illuminates the world. Cinegael’s original intention was to reinforce the identity of this threatened linguistic minority: the group soon realised that in modern times man’s destiny is stated in political terms. Inspired by the the National Film Board of Canada’s Challenge for Change programme and using pioneering closed-circuit TV techniques it recorded local events and controversies. It mediated successfully between local opinion and public bodies. Gradually Cinegael began to engage with the larger polity. It evolved into a maker of one-off film documentaries and dramas – including acclaimed films Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoire (1975) Poitín (1977) The Atlantean Trilogy (1981/1984) and Budawanny (1987) – which were all screened on RTE\, as well as on BBC\, Channel Four\, S4C\, SBC etc. and which achieved other international recognition. In 1981 Quinn earned the Spirit of the Festival Award at the Celtic Film Festival. In 1984 he won a Jacob’s TV Award. In 2009 he was awarded the ‘Director’s Choice’ award at the Boston Irish Film Festival (BIFF). In 1988 he was the first film maker to be elected a member of Aosdána\, the Irish Parliament of Artists. (In the same year he met Colonel Ghadafi.) In 2001 Quinn was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Irish Film Institute and in 2012 he was awarded the Foras Na Gaeilge SDGI Award for Outstanding Work as a Director in the Irish Language.
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/conversation-bob-quinn/
LOCATION:‘Huston Main’\, Huston School of Film & Digital Media\, NUI Galway\, Ireland
ORGANIZER;CN="Sean%20Crosson":MAILTO:Sean.Crosson@nuigalway.ie
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SUMMARY:‘Paddy Trench: Galwegian\, activist and artist’: ICHLC seminar
DESCRIPTION:‘Paddy Trench: Galwegian\, activist and artist’:  \n \nICHLC seminar followed by drinks reception to mark donation of significant archival material. \n14 September\, 4 pm\, The Bridge\, Hardiman Building\, NUI Galway. \nThe first seminar of the Irish Centre for the Histories of the Labour and Class (Moore Institute) for the 2017-18 academic year takes place next Thursday\, 14 September\, at 4 pm in The Bridge (Room 1001)\, Hardiman Research Building\, NUI Galway. The subject is Paddy Trench\, and the speaker is his nephew\, Brian Trench (School of Communications\, DCU). \n  \nPaddy Trench was born in Galway\, the son of Wilbraham Trench\, Professor of History\, English and Mental Science\, at QCG. Though the family moved to Dublin while he was still quite young\, Paddy always identified as a Galwegian. A talented artist\, a poet\, and an engaged journalist\, he was a prominent figure in bohemian Dublin in the late 1920s. Socially and politically conscious\, he was in Spain in the early stages of the Spanish Civil War but chronic ill-health obliged him to leave. Back in Ireland\, he was the driving force behind the first Trotskyist movement in the country\, while simultaneously active in the Dublin Labour Party. When he died in a Swiss sanatorium in 1948\, he was only 43 years of age. \nThe seminar is followed immediately by a reception to mark the donation to NUI Galway and the ICHLC of significant archival material relating to socialist and kindred movements in Ireland and Scotland. Tom Sherry’s donation is of his father’s collection of Labour\, Anarchist\, Communist\, and Trotskyist periodicals from the late 1930s and 1940s (to some of which Paddy Trench contributed articles). Brian Trench’s donation relates to the Socialist Workers’ Movement in Ireland in the 1970s. Mary Glynn’s donation relates to the Militant Tendency In Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s. \n 
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/paddy-trench-galwegian-activist-artist-ichlc-seminar/
LOCATION:The Bridge\, Room 1001\, First Floor\, Hardiman Research Building
ORGANIZER;CN="John%20Cunningham":MAILTO:john.cunningham@nuigalway.ie 
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