Word: connors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jerome Connor, Irish sculptor, was as elusive as an Irish moonbeam. In all the recent arts of Ireland there was no evanescence quite like his. He was the man who was going to carve a memorial to the dead of the Lusitania in the waterfront square of the town of Cobh, an easy gull's night from the Lusitania's ocean grave...
...years the carving of that memorial was imminent. Eighteen years ago Jerome Connor pocketed a substantial advance sum for the work from the memorial committee in New York* and went off to his Dublin studio to get busy. And then Jerome Connor's evanescence began to manifest itself...
Years ago he managed to erect a plinth, as a base for his monument, in the Cobh town square. Months went by; Jerome Connor was nowhere to be seen; nothing appeared on the plinth. Years went by. One fine day a committee of Cobh councilmen referred to the empty plinth as "unsightly...
...Jerome Connor's friends, however, stoutly defended him. He was transparently, said they, an artist and a man of parts. They recalled that as a child he had gone from County Kerry to the U.S., where he had worked manfully as foundry-man, professional prize fighter, machinist, sign painter, stonecutter and, finally, sculptor. The versatile Connor also found time to serve as a Japanese intelligence officer in Mexico. But it was with the chisel that he really made his mark-most notably with the Nuns of the Battlefield tablet located in Washington, D.C. He was bound, his friends swore...
Committee Meetings. Photographs of the Lusitania project kept appearing in Irish, English and U.S. newspapers. To be sure, the designs appeared to keep changing, but Jerome Connor would from time to time cross to New York and hold explanatory conferences with the memorial committee. Now it was the graceful announcement of a postponement. Now it was the equally graceful revelation of a new date for the unveiling. When the date arrived, however, Jerome Connor had usually volatilized again...