AGM at Dublin Castle with speaker Cormac K O’Malley.

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Date:April 28, 2016
The Annual General Meeting of the Friends of the National Collections will take place in the Throne Room of the State Apartments, Dublin Castle on 28 April at 6pm. Following the meeting, Cormac O'Malley will deliver his lecture entitled "Ernie O'Malley and Visual Arts" at 7pm The lecture will explain Ernie O'Malley's life, travels and travails, but will focus on a) his background in the visual arts including his readings and interests while on the run and in jail, 1918-1924, b) his interest in the arts during his travels in Europe and North America, 1925-1935; c) his collecting of art while in North America, France and in Ireland where he settled down and married in 1935, and d) his role in the arts scene in Ireland from 1940-1957.
AGM at Dublin Castle with speaker Cormac K O’Malley.

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Time: April 28, 2016, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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Excerpt from: http://www.achill247.com/writers/print_eomalley.html
Describing early connections to the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland

“Ernie O’Malley also participated in a number of Irish intellectual bodies including the Irish Academy of Letters and the Bibliographical Society of Ireland. The Academy aimed to promote creative literature in Ireland, and was created in 1932 with founder members WB Yeats and GB Shaw. Ernie O’Malley was also a member in 1945 of the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland, a society whose purpose was to secure artistic works and historic objects for Irish national or public collections.

Among Ernie O’Malley’s many initiatives to articulate and promote a distinctly Irish culture was a project involving his good friend the American photographer Paul Strand. The two men planned a joint project for a book, taking a village or group of Irish villages and Paul Strand taking the photographs and Ernie O’Malley providing the text. Sadly it never materialised.”