Patrick killoran biography
- Patrick James Killoran (1922–2010) was a public servant in Queensland, Australia.
- Patrick James Killoran was a public servant in Queensland, Australia.
- Patrick Killoran is an American artist who works in a variety of contexts and mediums.
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Paddy Killoran
Paddy Killoran | |
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| Born | (1903-09-21)21 September 1903 Emlaghgissan, near Ballymote, County Sligo, Ireland |
| Died | 24 April 1965(1965-04-24) (aged 61) New York, New York, United States |
| Genres | Irishfolk |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, Bandleader, Bar/restaurant owner, record company owner |
| Instrument | Fiddle |
| Years active | c. 1925–1963 |
| Labels | Crown, Decca, Dublin |
| Formerly of | Paddy Sweeney |
Musical artist
Patrick J. Killoran (1903–1965) was an Irish traditional fiddle player, bandleader and recording artist. He is regarded, along with James Morrison and Michael Coleman, as one of the finest exponents of the south Sligo fiddle style in the "golden age" of the ethnic recording industry of the 1920s and 1930s.
Early life in Ireland
Killoran was born 21 September 1903 in Emlaghgissan (also spelt "Emlagation"), a townland in the civil parish of Emlaghfad near the town of Ballymote in County Sligo, Ireland.[1] His father Patrick played the flute and his mother Mary the concertina but the young Killoran was also influen
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Bio and Press
Patrick Killoran is an American artist who works in a variety of contexts and mediums. Since the mid 1990s, his work has addressed consumerism's effect on conceptions of public space. Much of his work explores the inevitable contradictions that arise with the terms "public space" and "public art," in the realm of the products and the behaviors of consumer culture. Killoran's pursuits have landed him in numerous international exhibitions, including Everyday, the 1998 Biennial of Sydney, Australia; Wanås 2000 at the Wanås Foundation in Sweden; The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else at the With de Witte in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2014 and in 2018 the Queens International : Volumes at the Queens Museum, Queens, USA. He has presented solo projects at the Wadsworth Antheneum in Hartford, USA; Ikon in Birmingham, UK; Sculpture Center in Long Island City, USA and Studio10 in Brooklyn, USA. He has attended residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Civitella Ranieri in Umbertide, Italy. He has received grants f
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Patrick Killoran
Patrick James Killoran (1922–2010[1]) was a public servant in Queensland, Australia. He was the head of the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Islander Affairs. He worked as Protector of Islanders on Thursday Island in 1948,[2] before being made Director of the Sub-Department of Native Affairs in 1964, a position maintained until his retirement in 1985.
Killoran remained opposed to the payment of award wages to Indigenous Australian workers, and was implicated in the removal of Aboriginal children from their parents (the Stolen Generations).
He oversaw the police raid on an Aboriginal community at Mapoon, on the Cape York Peninsula. Families were forced from their homes, which were burnt to the ground. This was to make the land available for aluminium mining. The people were then moved 200 kilometres (120 mi) to form the community of New Mapoon.[3]
He also ran as a National Party of Australia candidate for the Queensland state seat of Cook (which included Cape York and the Torres Strait) in 1983, but attracted just
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