page_title: Tailteann Games (Irish Free State)
section_title: Cultural programme
hierarchical_section_title: Tailteann Games (Irish Free State) / 1924 / Cultural programme
caption_attribution_description: English: "Group outside 19 Dawson Street [headquarters of the Royal Irish Academy], including Eoin O'Duffy, Kevin O'Higgins, William T. Cosgrave, Desmond FitzGerald, Chief Justice Kennedy and W.B. Yeats" From the catalogue description, we knew a number of the subjects in this Hogan image. In response to the challenge to name the others (including the ubiquitous window-peerer), [/photos/79549245@N06/ DannyM8] came back in double-quick time with not only a confirmation of date, but a list of attendees. He found, a description as follows: A representative committee, of which W.B. Yeats is Chairman and Senator Oliver St. John Gogarty is Vice-Chairman, with the Marquis MacSwiney as Advisor, has succeeded in securing the attendance of a number of distinguished guests in Dublin for the Opening of the Tailteann Games. England, Scotland, America, Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, Persia and Poland will be represented. In all, we think pictured (many directly identified), we have: Irish govt reps (in suits and diplomatic garb) - including: WT Cosgrave (President of Executive Council) Kevin O'Higgins (Vice President of Executive Council) Desmond FitzGerald (TD &amp; Minister for External Affairs) Hugh Kennedy (Chief Justice) Eoin MacSwiney (Marquis MRIA) Foreign diplomats (in suits and similar garb) - including Mirza Riza Khan (Persian Prince &amp; Ambassador) Magalhaes de Azeredo (Brazilian Ambassador) Erik Kule Palmstierna (Swedish Baron) Willem Hubert Nolens (Netherlands Msgr) Count von Schlitz In academic garb: WB Yeats (Senator Poet Nobel Laureate) Dr R Macalister (Secretary RIA) LC Purser (Vice-President RIA) Rev Dr Lawlor (Dean of St Patricks) Dr R Lloyd Praeger Sir Frederick Moore VP Dr RF Scharff Dr WR Fearon Dr Kirpatrick Dr RAS Macalister EJ Gwynn (Trinity Provost) Dr George O’Brien WG Strickland WF Butler In uniform: E O'Duffy (TD &amp; Garda Commissioner) Col O'Reilly (Aide de Camp) Capt Murphy (Aide de Camp) Note: As our "people Identified" bell broke in pieces through overuse (coinciding with the identification of one of the behatted gentlemen pictured), from now on, when the occasion demands we will be seen wearing the People Identified Fez, which we have borrowed from the "Little Museum of Dublin". Photographer: Hogan, W. D Collection: [=format: Hogan Collection] Date: 4 August 1924 NLI Ref: HOG100 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
context_page_description: The Tailteann Games or Aonach Tailteann was an Irish sporting and cultural festival held in the Irish Free State in 1924, 1928, and 1932. It was intended as a modern revival of the Tailteann Games held from legendary times until the Norman invasion of Ireland; as such it drew inspiration from the Modern Olympics revival of the Ancient Olympics. Croke Park, the Dublin headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association, was the venue for the opening ceremony and many of the sports events, which were open to people of Irish birth or ancestry. The Tailteann Games were held shortly after the Summer Olympics, such that athletes participating in Paris 1924 and Amsterdam 1928 came to compete. Participants coming from England, Scotland, Wales, Canada, the USA, South Africa and Australia as well as Ireland. Chess competitions were held in conjunction with the Irish Chess Union as part of the Tailteann Games. There were also artistic competitions and industrial displays. The games became regarded as a Cumann na nGaedheal project, and when that party lost power to Fianna Fáil after the 1932 election there was no financial backing for further games.
context_section_description: W. B. Yeats persuaded the Royal Irish Academy to award prizes. The gold medal went to Stephen MacKenna for his translation of Plotinus; other winners were Oliver Gogarty, Francis Stuart, and James Stephens. A banquet presided over by T. M. Healy, the Governor-General of the Irish Free State, had an "oddly assorted" group of guests invited by Yeats, including Augustus John, Sir Edwin Lutyens, writers Compton Mackenzie, G. K. Chesterton, Lennox Robinson, and Carlos Magalhães de Azeredo; cricketers Ranjitsinhji and C. B. Fry; and diplomats Willem Hubert Nolens and Erik Palmstierna. Chesterton accepted the medal on his behalf of the absent MacKenna, who later refused it.
  An art and craft exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy displayed 1,597 works, more than half entered for competition in 32 categories. The overall "Tailteann Trophy" went to Seán Keating's Homage to Hugh Lane. Other gold medallists included Margaret Clarke, Francis Doyle Jones, Letitia Hamilton, Power O'Malley, and Patrick Tuohy.
  At the Theatre Royal two recent operas by Irish composers were performed: Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer's Sruth na Maoile (1922) and Harold White's Seán the Post (1924), along with Shamus O'Brien (1896) by Charles V. Stanford. The last was not successful: "there seemed to be a greater number of people in the orchestra than in the audience".
  In the genre painting competition, Charles Lamb won a silver medal for Dancing at a Northern Crossroads, depicting a traditional crossroads dance.
caption: Irish and foreign dignitaries at the RIA
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