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'Pubwall'ousts
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.gulls Over Sorrento."
Starring Ronald Shiner, this King. And up north she's a
his designs ongth e lt for one of has also studiede oew fabrics, He one of the oldest f gham Writing,
the shamrock
Thirty-two yards of linen flew out from Dublin for New York yes- terday- carried by 24-year-old Mr John McGuire. It has been specially woven and handprinted in eight new Irish designs by four leading Irish artists.
The designs range from Ogham writing-the stone-chipping of the Stone Age Irish-to Irish Pubwa.11 - a shadow-block design copied from that beloved by publicans in rural Ireland.
Said bru1inessman Mr McGuire yesterday: " I am going to present this work to Americans as part of the new art movement in Ireland which has something to offer instead of the conventional sham- rocks. round towers. leprechauns, and harps."
spearean Company to the Gate Theatre to appear in " Oedipus Rex."
And from there to the Gaiety, to the Illsley-MtcCabe produc- tions of "Harvey," "Born Yes- terday," "The Winslow Boy."
And the May King Dance Studio where so m,any top professional and amateur ballroom dancers first learned the meaning of a quarterturn.
S·he was one of the founder members of the N.I.S.D.T. (Northern Ireland Soc:ety of
Duke Court
(Between 16 and 17 R.S.V .P .
Mr.
D uke
Street)
there was. He's just simple and steadfast. gone off again on a tour And timeless . . .
of Britain.
He's Barry Keegan, the well- The Hills
been very much overplayed as
having dollar appeal. Can you think up a better
The moment is ripe for some- jollar earner'C Young John one with imagination and a true McGuire goes off to the States aesthetic appreciation of our in a few days' time with his
known actor. Barry has jiist finished a six-months tour of Germany with the Combined Se1.,vices Entertainment presenta- tion of Hugh Hastings! "Sea·
NE of the most versa- ancient culture to come forward new idea. '
of hand-printed Irish Linen by
5.30 p.m.
Thursday, 17th September
Brocquy
in , charge of the
store.
he idea ot producmg rurmsn 1> ot Irish msp1ration has in- rsted John McGmre tor quite 3e time. Last January ne lD· Louis le Srocquy Neville lnsun Tnurloe Connolly and
f.nrick Scott to design a small ollection of fabrics ·
N·OVEL DESIGNS
Ognam script. the ancient ourla.I places 01 the Boyne Valley tlDd mudern life in 1reland msp1red the artists whose designs have a dis- tinctly novel ftavour Each artist contributed two designs to the col- lection Each design has been oro-
duced in three colour-ways
ln order to launch nls Idea, Jonn Maguire has converted a disused stable into a showroom of contem· porary interior decoration tn a tiny court tucked awa.v behind DUkl' Street At his request the Corpora· t.ion have agreed to name It
·Duke Court"
Mr McGuire will spend four
weeks m the United States During that tim.- he w!Jl snow the lrlRh· designed fabric in New York Phth1 delphia Washlmrton Boston and Atlanta Georgia
Mr. Lema.ss, Minis ter for Duke Court, Dublin, yesterday. Industry and Commerce; Mr. J . Mr. McGuire is shortly bringing Leydon, Secretary, Dept of Indus- the collection on a tour ot the try and Commerce; and Senator United States and Canada.
E. A. McGuire, were amongst (See Page 3)
those who1attended a display of In the pIcture are Senator hand-painted Irish linen presen- McGuire, Mr. John F. Whit.e, Mr. ted by John McGuire Ltd., al John McGuire, and Mr. Lemas8.
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Picnic at the site of Newgrange, Co. Meath, wher.e fouT yow1g artists drew inspiration for modern designs. Left to right: John McGuire, Louis de Brocquy, Nevill Johnson, Patrick Scott, Thurloe Conolly.
Barry who wil'l soon go on tour in England in " Sea- gulls Over Sorrento," gets acquainted with Dublin's sea- gulls over the Liftey.
of twenty-four-John McGuire of Bro·ynt, Thomas and Co. Ltd.
He has juet formed a new compan:,1 of his own - John McGuire Ltd. Its function is simple. Its possibilities w1,Zimited. He has got together four of our U.eading contemporary artists and persuaded them to create designs on pure Irish linen for curtains and other interior
decoration.
They are Louis le Brocquy,
Tlmrloe Conolly, Nevill Johnson, and Patrick Scott.
In an old converted coach- house in Duke Court-now beautifully designed as a show room by Patrick Scott-I saw the fruits of their work yester- day at a party held by young John McGuire.
John is nothing if not thorough. He brought all four artists up with him a few weeks ago to Newgrange in the Royal County of Mf,'lath, on a
Dollar Fabrics !r
Leaving to-morrow for !Us first visit to the United Statt6 Mr. John McGuire, who is fl g off to New York with potential dollar- earners in his ba'!gage.
He is bringing sample lengths of Irish furnishinb fabrics to show to American firms, and, in Phila- delphia, there are already plans for the fab)iics to be shown in conjunc- tion with a fashion parade in one of the leading stores.
· At first glance, it might not sound particularly interesting to hear of a young man going off to America on business, but when I tell you that the fabrics are especially ,designed by Irish artists and signe.d by them. and that the fabrics will represent a kind of " couturier" collection of furnishing materials, you will realise that there is something just a little different about this trip.
Brick Interiors
The artists who have designed the fabrics are Louis le Brocquy, Thurloe Conolly. Nevill Johnson, and Patrick Scott, and each of them has taken his inspiration from the contemporary scene.
For instance. Patrick Scott has gone inside ublic-houses of and for one of his designs.
h se who are familiar with the · uliar cha.racteristics of such y ces will tell you that some of em have walls painted in relief
k look like brickwork.
So characteristic of Irish public-
houses in this particular relief painting on the walls that Osbert Lancaster has written (!bout it, and has said that it is peculiar to this country.
In any case, Patrick Scott hasI somethin .lik .
is the play with the all-male name to be reckoned with in casit. entertainment circles.
It's a far cry for Barry from
the mid-forties. when he went She owns the well-k11own from Anew McMasters' Shake- Kingsway Ballroom in Belfast.
for another de .
.....
orms of script •
se-en agam wneu a snot
From there he broke into Dance Teachers) and ballet and Variety, and spent two yea;rs tap also come into her teaching with Jimmy O'Dea Productions. itinerary.
Then, when the .Alobey moved Tlwt's not nearly all. She is a
over to the Queens, Barry
played the lead in their first operas. As a soprano taught by
very capabl,§ producer of light presentation there- O'Casey's well-known Mrs. Whale of
" Silver Tassie." Belfast she has herself sung in The impressions he gave me of most of the works of Gilbe1·t and
his German tour were like the Sullivan.
strokes of some impressionist In 1937 tl.1e Belfast Central painter on a canvas. Full of light Operatic Society was formed- and shade--a great deal of shade. with Dublin-born Frank Doherty
crazy, costly reminiscent of the mid-twenties go on sometimes for days and
nights on end . . .
(now of the Capitol Theatre in from Hanover across to the Dublin) as its first conductor.
Today Edward Hill - Mrs. Hill's husband, conducts ilt. As well as the Lurgan Operatic Society's productions.
There was the night train
eastern zooe. Thundering relent-
lessly through the darkness . . .
the dimmed ·lights m the car-
riages . . . the morose guards
coming in repeatedly to warn
passengers that on no account opened another Kingsway Ball-
could anyone lift the tight-drawn blinds to look out, as they
room. This time in Dublin. And, from personal know- ledge, I can tell you that it's one of the most luxurious in
approached Curtain.
the dread
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John McGuire, at Newgrange, in the Boyne VaUey, with Irish artists Louis Le Brocquy, Thurloe Connolly, Patrick Scott and (at back) Neville Johnson. The carvings on the stone at the entrance to the ·ancient bu rial-place inspired one of Louis Le Brocquy's fabric designs.
The pleasure of your company is requested by JOHN McGUIRE
at the first presentation of a collection
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New Fabrics
As Dollar Catchers
N Saturday next a young Dublin businessman will fly to the United States with Irish linen furnishing tab· rice designed by four con· temporary Irish artists. He is 24-year-old John McGuire, who for the past four years
Louis le Thurloe Conolly Nevill Johnson Patrick Scott
where
No so long ago Mrs. Hill
parties
This, as you know, is not picnic.
permitted in the Vatican. But It is fr om the designs used in Mr. and Mrs. Hill didn't know the decorrotion of the ancient that at the time. They had the stones fo1ind there that these fiLm taken before they were young artists drew inspirat-ion.
The little roaas alo11r1 the spotted-and were then allowed Lozenges, spirnls, zigzags. All
Rhine Valley, where, in the to keep tt. Catholic section, yon find the
THINK we're all agreed
.sorts of geomet1'ical figure.s and composite patterns.
S·tations of the Cross at regular
Actor On Tour intervals on the roadside. And Ithat the leprechaun, the Ireland at 29/6 a yard, double
The matc11ials are on sale in HERE'S another Dub- here and there <i ro14gh, homely jarvey, the harpc; and width. All down the selvedge of
liner in town on a visit shrine 01· grotto set up in a field shamrocks, the Round each is scrawled the signature just now. Pardon m e- - mide testimony of a faith - Tower-these have -all of the artist who designed it.
tile women I've met with an idea born of a sound assessment of the commercial
EDA.IN.
SOLUTION: Ninety-two and Ninety-one.
recently is, surely, value of our traditional art.
Mrs. May Hill, of Tlia.t someone is a young 1nan
Belfast.
Formerly, she was Miss May
Here are some of the fabrics by contemporary Irish artists, which Mr. John McGuire will take with him to the United States. On the left are two patterns by Patrick Scott, called " Ogham Stripe " and ." Irish Pubwall." Those on the right, designed by Nevill Johnson, are entieled "Cirque" and
"Mycycle."
sign.
has been decorative
furniture ·partment of .his family
de·