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Bob Quinn (filmmaker)

April 12, 2024

For other people with the same name, see Bob Quinn.

Bob Quinn (Irish: Roibeard Ó Cuinn) (born Dublin, 1935) is an Irish filmmaker, writer and photographer who directed Poitín (1978), the first feature film entirely in the Irish language. His documentary work includes Atlantean, a series of four documentaries about the origins of the Irish people. Quinn has a history of protesting the commercialisation of television, resigning from RTÉ in 1969 on that basis and resigning from the RTÉ Authority in 1999 to protest toy advertising. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Irish Film Institute in 2001 and is a member of the Aosdána.

Bob Quinn
Born1935 (age 88–89)
Dublin
NationalityIrish
Occupation(s)Filmmaker, author, photographer
Notable work

Early life and television career edit

Quinn was born in Dublin in 1935.[1] After a series of other jobs, he moved into television in 1961, joining Ireland's national public-service television station, RTÉ, as a trainee studio operator the year it first broadcast.[2] He worked up to directing films there, but resigned in 1969 in protest against the commercialisation of the network. He wrote his first book, Sit Down and be Counted with Lelia Doolan and Jack Dowley, who had also quit, about that episode.[2] In 1973, he established his own production company, Cinegael, in Carraroe, County Galway, together with a cinema by the same name, in which Quinn and his family lived.[3][4][5]

In June 1995, Quinn was appointed to the RTÉ Authority.[6] After he criticised RTÉ on Tonight With Vincent Browne, on RTÉ Radio 1, on 7 November 1996, he was removed from the panel interviewing candidates to be Director-General of RTÉ.[7] Quinn had also been part of the campaign that led to the launch of TnaG, now TG4, on 31 October 1996.[8] While on the Authority, he suspended his own membership every Christmas to protest RTÉ's reliance on toy advertising aimed at children, and he quit the Authority in July 1999, saying that "to brainwash children is simply unacceptable and the pressure it puts on parents to buy these products is simply scandalous" and that RTÉ needed to do more to represent regions of Ireland outside the capital, Dublin.[9]

Filmmaking edit

In 1978, Quinn made Poitín, which was the first feature film ever made entirely in the Irish language. It was also the first feature film to receive funding from the Arts Council of Ireland. The film was a story about an illegal distiller of poitín in rural Connemara and starred Cyril Cusack, Donal McCann and Niall Tóibín. The premiere was held in Carraroe.[10][11][12]

Quinn's 1978 documentary The Family, a profile of the Atlantis commune made for RTÉ, was considered too disturbing to air and was not broadcast until the 1991.[13] It was featured at the 2017 Tulca Festival of Visual Arts in Galway, which was themed around the commune nicknamed The Screamers.[14]

In 1986, Quinn wrote the script that he made into Budawanny in 1987 and for which he was awarded an Arts Council Film Script Award. Based on the 1983 novel Suil le Breith ("About Us") by Pádraig Standún [ga], it tells the story of a parish priest on a Gaeltacht island who gets his housekeeper, Marion, pregnant and wrestles with his love for her and his commitment to the priesthood and his community. In 1994 he revisited Budawanny to make The Bishop's Story, in which the priest of Budawanny is now an older bishop at a retreat house and recounts his story to a younger priest who is there to address his own alcoholism and paedophilia. The flashbacks to the earlier events are told using material from Budawanny.[15][16][17]

In July 1989, Quinn founded the Galway Film Fleadh with Lelia Doolan, Miriam Allen, Joe MacMahon and Steve Woods. The first Fleadh was held at the Claddagh Palace.[18]

Awards and recognition edit

Quinn received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Irish Film Institute in 2001.[11] He is a member of the Aosdána.[6][19]

Exhibitions and retrospectives edit

In 2010, Quinn donated 25,000 of his negatives, taken over a period of 40 years, to the library of the National University of Ireland Galway. A selection were put on temporary display at Galway City Museum.[1]

TG4 aired a 13-week retrospective of Quinn's work beginning in October 2011.[20]

The first annual Clare Island Film Festival was a retrospective of Quinn's films in 2013.[21]

Two of Quinn's films are at the New York Museum of Modern Art.[6]

Family life edit

Quinn has six children and (as of 2017) ten grandchildren.[6] His son, Robert, is also a filmmaker. He made the film documentary Cinegael Paradiso about his childhood and his father's work in 2004.[11][4]

Selected filmography edit

  • Why Don't They Shoot People (1966)
  • Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoire ("Lament for Art Ó Laoghaire") (1975)
  • Cloch (stone) (1975)
  • Self-portrait with Red Car (1977)
  • Listen (1978)
  • Poitín (1978)
  • The Family (1978)
  • The Atlantean Trilogy (1983)
  • Fly Tippers (1987)
  • Budawanny (1987)
  • Pobal in London, Pobal in Boston, Pobal in Germany (1988–1990)
  • The Bishop's Story (1994)
  • Graceville: The Conamaras in Minnesota (1996)
  • Atlantean 2: Navigatio (1998). Incorporated in 'The Atlantean Quartet'
  • It Must Be Done Right (1999). TV documentary about Donal McCann
  • The Emigrant's Dance (2000)
  • Laoch (2003)
  • Splanc Deireadh na Gaeltachta (The Gaeltacht's last spark) (2004)
  • ConTempo Goes West (2005)
  • Vox Humana (Notes on a small opera) (2008)

Selected writings edit

  • 1969: Sit Down and be Counted: The Cultural Evolution of a Television Station, with Lelia Doolan and Jack Dowling
  • 1986: Atlantean
  • 1991: Smokey Hollow: A Fictional Memoir. O'Brien Press ISBN 978-0-86278-269-6
  • 1996: An Tír Aneol Photography
  • 2001: Maverick: A Dissident View of Broadcasting Today. Brandon ISBN 978-0-86322-288-7
  • 2005: The Atlantean Irish: Ireland's Oriental and Maritime Heritage. Lilliput Press ISBN 978-1-84351-024-6
  • 2016: Aristophanes' Apple. Self-published cli-fi novel.[6]

Archives edit

An archive of photographs by Bob Quinn is held at the Library of the National University of Ireland, Galway. See catalogue.

References edit

  1. ^ a b Siggins, Lorna (16 June 2010). "Film-maker Bob Quinn donates archive of 40 years to library at NUIG". The Irish Times. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  2. ^ a b O'Brien, Harvey (2004). The Real Ireland: The Evolution of Ireland in Documentary Film. Manchester University Press. pp. 194–202. ISBN 978-0-7190-6907-9.
  3. ^ "QUINN, Bob (director, scriptwriter, producer) (1935)". Irish Film and Television Research Online. Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  4. ^ a b Lawless, Andrew. "Cinegael Paradiso, The story of a second generation Irish film director. Robert Quinn in interview". Three Monkeys Online. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  5. ^ Pettitt, Lance (2000). Screening Ireland: Film and Television Representation. Manchester University Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-7190-5270-5.
  6. ^ a b c d e Siggins, Lorna (18 March 2017). "Bob Quinn: 'Ireland is part of the evil empire'". The Irish Times. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  7. ^ McGarry, Patsy (18 November 1996). "Film maker dropped from interview panel for RTE director general's job". The Irish Times. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  8. ^ Kenny, Colum (31 October 2006). "With only three in a hundred viewers tuning in, there's something seriously flawed with TG4". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  9. ^ "Film-maker quits RTE board in 'brainwashing' row". Irish Independent. 26 July 1999. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  10. ^ Pettitt 2000, pp. 103–104.
  11. ^ a b c White, Jerry (2009). The Radio Eye: Cinema in the North Atlantic, 1958–1988. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. pp. 239–240. ISBN 978-1-55458-212-9.
  12. ^ "Connemara Feature Film". RTÉ Archives. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  13. ^ "Film Details – Family, The". Irish Film & TV Research Online. Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  14. ^ Dunne, Aidan (7 November 2017). "The screaming cult makes its way to Galway". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  15. ^ "Budawanny". Irish Film and TV Research Online. Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  16. ^ "Bishop's Story, The". Irish Film and TV Research Online. Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  17. ^ "Bob Quinn – Director". Irish Film and Television Network. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  18. ^ Andrews, Kernan (9 July 2009). "Looking back on twenty-one years of the Galway Film Fleadh". Galway Advertiser. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  19. ^ "Nótaí na nEagarthóirí: Editors' Notes". New Hibernia Review. 18 (4): 5–8. 2014. doi:10.1353/nhr.2014.0064.
  20. ^ Harrison, Bernice (1 October 2011). "From Klingon to the cúpla focal, the words speak for themselves". The Irish Times. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  21. ^ Ryan, Áine (15 October 2013). "FILM Community embraced Clare Island Film Festival". Mayo News. Retrieved 12 August 2018.

Further reading edit

  • Sheehan, Helena (2004). Irish Television Drama: A Society and its Stories (2nd ed.). RTÉ. ISBN 0-86029-012-3.
  • White, Jerry (2003). "Arguing with Ethnography: The Films of Bob Quinn and Pierre Perrault". Cinema Journal. 42 (2): 101–124. doi:10.1353/cj.2003.0006. JSTOR 1566518.
  • Quinn, Bob. "Ghaddafi - My Part in his Downfall". Conamara.org.

External links edit

  • Official website
  • Bob Quinn at IMDb

April 12, 2024
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For other people with the same name see Bob Quinn Bob Quinn Irish Roibeard o Cuinn born Dublin 1935 is an Irish filmmaker writer and photographer who directed Poitin 1978 the first feature film entirely in the Irish language His documentary work includes Atlantean a series of four documentaries about the origins of the Irish people Quinn has a history of protesting the commercialisation of television resigning from RTE in 1969 on that basis and resigning from the RTE Authority in 1999 to protest toy advertising He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Irish Film Institute in 2001 and is a member of the Aosdana Bob QuinnBorn1935 age 88 89 DublinNationalityIrishOccupation s Filmmaker author photographerNotable workPoitin 1978 Budawanny 1985 The Atlantean Quartet 1983 1998 Contents 1 Early life and television career 2 Filmmaking 3 Awards and recognition 4 Exhibitions and retrospectives 5 Family life 6 Selected filmography 7 Selected writings 8 Archives 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External linksEarly life and television career editQuinn was born in Dublin in 1935 1 After a series of other jobs he moved into television in 1961 joining Ireland s national public service television station RTE as a trainee studio operator the year it first broadcast 2 He worked up to directing films there but resigned in 1969 in protest against the commercialisation of the network He wrote his first book Sit Down and be Counted with Lelia Doolan and Jack Dowley who had also quit about that episode 2 In 1973 he established his own production company Cinegael in Carraroe County Galway together with a cinema by the same name in which Quinn and his family lived 3 4 5 In June 1995 Quinn was appointed to the RTE Authority 6 After he criticised RTE on Tonight With Vincent Browne on RTE Radio 1 on 7 November 1996 he was removed from the panel interviewing candidates to be Director General of RTE 7 Quinn had also been part of the campaign that led to the launch of TnaG now TG4 on 31 October 1996 8 While on the Authority he suspended his own membership every Christmas to protest RTE s reliance on toy advertising aimed at children and he quit the Authority in July 1999 saying that to brainwash children is simply unacceptable and the pressure it puts on parents to buy these products is simply scandalous and that RTE needed to do more to represent regions of Ireland outside the capital Dublin 9 Filmmaking editIn 1978 Quinn made Poitin which was the first feature film ever made entirely in the Irish language It was also the first feature film to receive funding from the Arts Council of Ireland The film was a story about an illegal distiller of poitin in rural Connemara and starred Cyril Cusack Donal McCann and Niall Toibin The premiere was held in Carraroe 10 11 12 Quinn s 1978 documentary The Family a profile of the Atlantis commune made for RTE was considered too disturbing to air and was not broadcast until the 1991 13 It was featured at the 2017 Tulca Festival of Visual Arts in Galway which was themed around the commune nicknamed The Screamers 14 In 1986 Quinn wrote the script that he made into Budawanny in 1987 and for which he was awarded an Arts Council Film Script Award Based on the 1983 novel Suil le Breith About Us by Padraig Standun ga it tells the story of a parish priest on a Gaeltacht island who gets his housekeeper Marion pregnant and wrestles with his love for her and his commitment to the priesthood and his community In 1994 he revisited Budawanny to make The Bishop s Story in which the priest of Budawanny is now an older bishop at a retreat house and recounts his story to a younger priest who is there to address his own alcoholism and paedophilia The flashbacks to the earlier events are told using material from Budawanny 15 16 17 In July 1989 Quinn founded the Galway Film Fleadh with Lelia Doolan Miriam Allen Joe MacMahon and Steve Woods The first Fleadh was held at the Claddagh Palace 18 Awards and recognition editQuinn received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Irish Film Institute in 2001 11 He is a member of the Aosdana 6 19 Exhibitions and retrospectives editIn 2010 Quinn donated 25 000 of his negatives taken over a period of 40 years to the library of the National University of Ireland Galway A selection were put on temporary display at Galway City Museum 1 TG4 aired a 13 week retrospective of Quinn s work beginning in October 2011 20 The first annual Clare Island Film Festival was a retrospective of Quinn s films in 2013 21 Two of Quinn s films are at the New York Museum of Modern Art 6 Family life editQuinn has six children and as of 2017 ten grandchildren 6 His son Robert is also a filmmaker He made the film documentary Cinegael Paradiso about his childhood and his father s work in 2004 11 4 Selected filmography editWhy Don t They Shoot People 1966 Caoineadh Airt Ui Laoire Lament for Art o Laoghaire 1975 Cloch stone 1975 Self portrait with Red Car 1977 Listen 1978 Poitin 1978 The Family 1978 The Atlantean Trilogy 1983 Fly Tippers 1987 Budawanny 1987 Pobal in London Pobal in Boston Pobal in Germany 1988 1990 The Bishop s Story 1994 Graceville The Conamaras in Minnesota 1996 Atlantean 2 Navigatio 1998 Incorporated in The Atlantean Quartet It Must Be Done Right 1999 TV documentary about Donal McCann The Emigrant s Dance 2000 Laoch 2003 Splanc Deireadh na Gaeltachta The Gaeltacht s last spark 2004 ConTempo Goes West 2005 Vox Humana Notes on a small opera 2008 Selected writings edit1969 Sit Down and be Counted The Cultural Evolution of a Television Station with Lelia Doolan and Jack Dowling 1986 Atlantean 1991 Smokey Hollow A Fictional Memoir O Brien Press ISBN 978 0 86278 269 6 1996 An Tir Aneol Photography 2001 Maverick A Dissident View of Broadcasting Today Brandon ISBN 978 0 86322 288 7 2005 The Atlantean Irish Ireland s Oriental and Maritime Heritage Lilliput Press ISBN 978 1 84351 024 6 2016 Aristophanes Apple Self published cli fi novel 6 Archives editAn archive of photographs by Bob Quinn is held at the Library of the National University of Ireland Galway See catalogue References edit a b Siggins Lorna 16 June 2010 Film maker Bob Quinn donates archive of 40 years to library at NUIG The Irish Times Retrieved 10 August 2018 a b O Brien Harvey 2004 The Real Ireland The Evolution of Ireland in Documentary Film Manchester University Press pp 194 202 ISBN 978 0 7190 6907 9 QUINN Bob director scriptwriter producer 1935 Irish Film and Television Research Online Trinity College Dublin Retrieved 10 August 2018 a b Lawless Andrew Cinegael Paradiso The story of a second generation Irish film director Robert Quinn in interview Three Monkeys Online Retrieved 10 August 2018 Pettitt Lance 2000 Screening Ireland Film and Television Representation Manchester University Press p 97 ISBN 978 0 7190 5270 5 a b c d e Siggins Lorna 18 March 2017 Bob Quinn Ireland is part of the evil empire The Irish Times Retrieved 12 August 2018 McGarry Patsy 18 November 1996 Film maker dropped from interview panel for RTE director general s job The Irish Times Retrieved 12 August 2018 Kenny Colum 31 October 2006 With only three in a hundred viewers tuning in there s something seriously flawed with TG4 Irish Examiner Retrieved 12 August 2018 Film maker quits RTE board in brainwashing row Irish Independent 26 July 1999 Retrieved 12 August 2018 Pettitt 2000 pp 103 104 a b c White Jerry 2009 The Radio Eye Cinema in the North Atlantic 1958 1988 Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press pp 239 240 ISBN 978 1 55458 212 9 Connemara Feature Film RTE Archives Retrieved 10 August 2018 Film Details Family The Irish Film amp TV Research Online Trinity College Dublin Retrieved 2 August 2018 Dunne Aidan 7 November 2017 The screaming cult makes its way to Galway The Irish Times Retrieved 2 August 2018 Budawanny Irish Film and TV Research Online Trinity College Dublin Retrieved 12 August 2018 Bishop s Story The Irish Film and TV Research Online Trinity College Dublin Retrieved 12 August 2018 Bob Quinn Director Irish Film and Television Network Retrieved 12 August 2018 Andrews Kernan 9 July 2009 Looking back on twenty one years of the Galway Film Fleadh Galway Advertiser Retrieved 12 August 2018 Notai na nEagarthoiri Editors Notes New Hibernia Review 18 4 5 8 2014 doi 10 1353 nhr 2014 0064 Harrison Bernice 1 October 2011 From Klingon to the cupla focal the words speak for themselves The Irish Times Retrieved 10 August 2018 Ryan Aine 15 October 2013 FILM Community embraced Clare Island Film Festival Mayo News Retrieved 12 August 2018 Further reading editSheehan Helena 2004 Irish Television Drama A Society and its Stories 2nd ed RTE ISBN 0 86029 012 3 White Jerry 2003 Arguing with Ethnography The Films of Bob Quinn and Pierre Perrault Cinema Journal 42 2 101 124 doi 10 1353 cj 2003 0006 JSTOR 1566518 Quinn Bob Ghaddafi My Part in his Downfall Conamara org External links editOfficial website Bob Quinn at IMDb Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Bob Quinn 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