In the National Museum of Ireland, 1937
Item
- Format
- JPEG
- Title
- In the National Museum of Ireland, 1937
- Identifier
- VH0036
- Depiction
- 14 men standing on steps, with a small model of a currach and a statue of a woman in a shawl holding a wicker basket.
- Description
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This photograph of distinguished Celtic scholars, folklorists, archaeologists and linguists, was taken in the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin. Two of those present had connections with the University of Galway: Eric Mac Fhinn (third from left) was appointed to UCG in 1931 as the the first lecturer in Education through the medium of Irish, and Proinnsias Mac Giollarnáth, one of the sons of Seán Mac Giollarnáth, noted folklorist (1st from left) was later Professor of Romance Languages from 1959 to 1987.
Present in this photograph, as noted on the reverse, are:
'Left to right: Seán Mac Giollarnáth, D.J.; Seamus de Largy; Fr Eric Fair (Mac Fhinn); Adolph Mahr; Osborne Bergin; Leon Ó Broin; Chairman of Commission: Cú Uladh, Aodh ? McGinley; Liam Price, D.J.; Fr Lorcan Ó Muirí; --- Hartmann ?; --- ; --- ; Micheal Ó hĖanaigh, Asst. I. A antiquities; Prof. Oke [Åke] Campbell, Upsala'
The two unidentified men in this list have been named as Louis Maguire and John O'Neill (History Ireland, 2013).
The Irish Folklore Commission met in Dublin in 1937. The Director of the National Museum, Adolf Mahr, and the noted linguist and Celtic studies expert Hans Hartmann were Nazi sympathizers, at a time when Nazi propaganda sought to make use of Celtic studies. - People
- Seán Mac Giollarnáth; Séamus de Largy; Eric Fair (Mac Fhinn); Adolph Mahr; Osborn Bergin; Leon Ó Broin; Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich (Peter Toner McGinley; Liam Price; Lorcan Ó Muirí; Hans Hartmann; Louis Maguire, John G. O’Neill; Micheal Ó hÉanaigh (Michael Heaney); Åke Campbell.
- MAC FHINN, Eric
- References
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[Photo caption], History Ireland, 21:2 (2013), https://www.historyireland.com/american-left-liberalism-in-ireland/, accessed 25 Nov. 2023.
- Contributor
- John Waddell
- Bibliographic Citation
- J. Waddell, J. Conroy, ‘In the National Museum of Ireland, 1837’, Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 13917, Archival Record Id VHRS
- Spatial Coverage
- National Museum of Ireland, Dublin
- Temporal Coverage
- c. 1930s
- Period
- 1930s
- Category
- b&w
- group
- off-campus
- indoors
- Language
- English
- Irish
- Publisher
- University of Galway Library
- Rights
- This image may be used for non-commercial purposes under CC BY-NC-SA see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
