Joseph McGarrity Daniel F. Cohalan. He became president of the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic. He christened his newborn son Eamon De Valera McGarrity. Although in his later years he broke from de Valera. Also once friends with Michael Collins he disagreed with the Irish peace treaty. He opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty and travelled to Dublin in 1922 and assisted the development of the short-lived Collins/De Valera Pact by bringing de Valera and Michael Collins together before the Irish general election, 1922. He did not support the founding of Fianna Fáil in 1926 and opposed the party’s entry
Ulrike and Eamon Compliant Ulrike and Eamon Compliant Ulrike and Eamon Compliant is a work by Blast Theory that premiered at the 53rd Venice Biennale in June 2009, commissioned by the De La Warr Pavilion and supported by Arts Council England. The work is based on the lives of Ulrike Meinhof (Red Army Faction) and Eamon Collins (Irish Republican Army). Having chosen to be Eamon or Ulrike, participants walk through the city receiving mobile phone calls. Exploring subjectivities and political obligations, the work culminates in an interview with the artists in a hidden room. Mixing locative media, live performance, and interactivity, the work counterpoints