The extent to which UCD alumni working in various creative fields have embraced - and indeed shaped - modernism is considerable, if not extraordinary. Several schools - Architecture, Literature and Drama - can point to alumni whose creative work in a modernist vein has won both national and international acclaim.
It is often said that Joyce, founding father and finest exponent of literary modernism, has eclipsed this acclaim. Perhaps so, but it might be equally claimed that he has had a significant impact on subsequent graduates of the university who optedfor careers in the creative arts, in that so many have embraced the opportunities afforded by modernism.
It is often said that Joyce, founding father and finest exponent of literary modernism, has eclipsed this acclaim. Perhaps so, but it might be equally claimed that he has had a significant impact on subsequent graduates of the university who optedfor careers in the creative arts, in that so many have embraced the opportunities afforded by modernism.
'Three Irish Beauties'
This photograph was captioned 'Three Irish Beauties' by Joyce. It was taken in Paris in 1929 and shows Joyce wreathed in the cigarette smoke of his two companions, James Stephens (left), author of The Charwoman's Daughter and The Crock of Gold, and John Sullivan, an Irish tenor Joyce tried hard to promote.
Close Me!
In 1898 James Joyce enrolled in University College Dublin where he studies English and foreign languages, graduating in 1902.
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James Joyce - In 1898 James Joyce enrolled in University college Dublin where he studied English and foreign languages, graduating in 1902
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Flann O’ Brien [Brian O’ Nolan] entered UCD in 1929. he wrote prodigiously during his student years and was an active member of the same society, the Literary & Historical society, at which Joyce, as a student some thirty years previously, had presented a paper Drama and Life.
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Kate O'Brien by Jill Tek
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Kevin Roche He graduated from UCD in 1945 and worked with Michael Scott for two years, contributing to the distinctive design of the skyline of Busaras. He subsequently emigrated to the US to study with Mies van der Rohe. In 1950 he joined the office of Eero Saarinen, becoming principal design associate in 1954, Architect of many civic buildings, including the Oakland Museum in California and the Ford Foundation in New York, Roche received the Pritzker Prize in 1982 and the AIA Gold Medal in 1993.
