ST. COLMCILLE'S PARISH NEWSLETTER Issue 4 JAN/FEB 1994 Anois teacht an Earraigh beidh an la 'dul chun sfneadh Is tar eis na Feil' Brfde ardoidh me mosheol A NT A I N E O REACHTAIRE ^teamfr COM/ come/ {/me/... fyoarme/ ^DOfmcUy/ If you haven't heard of along a toilet roll and we had to wrap up our finds for Joanne Connolly already, safety. It really was a good idea because everything we you will certainly do so in picked up was kept free from damage and together in the the future. She is a tall, same place for drawing later. An exhibition was held in slim young woman, ex- June each year for the open drawing project.. "I have a tremely attractive and the friend who is always busy - buzzing around all over the possessor of a wonderful place" said Joanne. "She inspired me - so I presented 'A smile. She is outgoing, Bee'". friendly and brimming with College days were not all work. There was time for enthusiasm for life in general. Of course Joanne has holidays to be remembered in far distant places with every reason to be happy. She was married last March to friends. The summer of 1988 was spent in America and her childhood sweetheart Paul Murphy, is busy setting up 1989 - a long hot lazy summer in sun-drenched Tuscany. her new home in Orlagh and has found success in her Fourth year was devoted to a special project. I suppose chosen career as an artist. you could call it a 'thesis' in art. It was left to each student You could call her a native of Knocklyon, having lived to choose their subject and Joanne decided to make a in the area most of her life. "I'm a homebird" she says. cookery book. Everything had to be produced by the "That's why we decided to settle here. Paul is from student - paper - original printing, illustrations and Terenure. We met at a Terenure College 6th year disco bookbinding. Her title was 'Dishes for Fishes'. This was when I was sixteen. I'm happy here and my Mum is well received and at the end of the year she graduated nearby. She is great and very supportive. I love Knock- with a degree in Design . lyon". Her first job on leaving college was with a small design As a child Joanne never stopped drawing. She drew company in Dun Laoghaire, where she worked on an everything and anything that came her way. Her talent architectural magazine and did a lot of technical drawings. was noticed at an early age and so she was sent to classes It was a happy time but it was only when the company at the National Gallery where she became very familiar went up for sale that Joanne's business acumen came to with the painting of so many famous artists and their light. She and her friend Rachel, a craft graduate, set up a techniques. It was at this stage that Joanne became a partnership and bought the company. For two and a half member of the Knocklyon Newsletter team and worked years these two young people experienced the traumas of on a number of our issues. Right through her schooldays accounts, invoices and running their own business, but it at Beaufort she knew that her future lay in the field of art. also brought the excitement, enjoyment and satisfaction "I hated leaving Beaufort" she remembers. "I absolutely of working with varied projects such as designing a Board loved school, every minute of it, but at least I knew what I Game (Tarotel - telling the future in a fun way) to more wanted to do when I left". It came as no surprise to her serious subjects such as designing Heritage Centres. family and friends when she applied for a place at The National College of Art and Design in Thomas Street. This happy time ended when Rachel accepted a job Entry there was limited to eighty students from the whole working with ceramics in Italy so they decided to sell. of Ireland and competition was high. Joanne submitted Joanne is now working on her own and having a ball. her portfolio and waited. Her choice was for Graphic Her present job is painting the Italian murals on the walls Design and after three interviews she was accepted for of George Sabongi's new Italian restaurant, 'La Scala' in the four year course. Upper Merrion Street, and she is already booked to paint In the early days at college, she recollects working on further murals in a Dalkey restaurant. animations, puppet making, Calligraphy and TV graphics. Joanne Connolly is full of ideas, plans and dreams. As time went on, students were introduced to wider fields: Quite a few dreams have been accomplished but there is industrial design, printmaking, photography and drawing no stopping her now. There is no doubt that a very models (yes - even in the nude). There were visits to the successful future in the design world lies ahead and what zoo, field trips on which students were encouraged to pleases her most is that it is happening in her own pick up small items such as flowers, leaves, pebbles, a country surrounded by the people she loves most. piece of wood - indeed anything which took their fancy. Eileen Casey "It was rather funny" she told me. 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TEL: 4516281 Liz, and tSfzinz Life After School This month's contributor It is not always easy to think positive, it is is Kevin Smyth (Knock- easier to be negative, even though by defini- lyon Green), a 2nd year tion this is soul destroying. Architectural student at U.CJD. But we have so many reasons to be de- The only two architecture pressed. The weather often does not help! And degree courses in the Republic when the emptiness and pain of life strikes, are in Bolton Street and we forget about God. Where is He when most U.C.D. Each course is 5 years needed? Not only do we forget God, but we in duration and you have the also forget that God never forgets us: "Can a option of a year or two out working in a professional prac- mother forget her infant? even should she tice. Both courses are highly respected courses inter- forget, I will never forget you". nationally. So today (New Year's Day, 1994) as we take The Bolton Street course requires an aptitude test up the pen (biro!) the weather is in a very plus an interview in addition to your Leaving Certificate contrary mood. But we stick out our chin results for calculating the total points. U.C.D. also has regardless and say from the heart, Happy an interview, but this is merely advisory, to see if you can manage 5 years of late Thursday nights! New Year, because God lives and all is well. I'm in second architecture U.C.D. and enjoying it a "From the heart" we say, and this is the lot. Architecture requires a minimum 40-50 hours a perfect blessing - set signs and words are not week between tutorials, lectures and studio. Most of this at all essential. studio time is spent preparing drawings for a presentation of your project work which usually takes Behind all this is trust in God. We are slow place on a Friday. (At the moment I am preparing my to give this trust because we are afraid to final drawings for a project to convert a Norman Castle leave go. We know there is something better and adjoining barn to a theatre.) The presentation (or out there for us - a totally better way, but in crit as it is known) takes place in front of the class of 50 the ways of the world we want all options students and 4 or 5 tutors who are practising architects also. After you talk about your scheme for 5 minutes, the covered, we hedge our bets. So we cling pathe- tutors criticise it, or kill it depending on what mood they tically to our selfish selves, which drag us are in. down, away from God; this beautiful, beyond- However, there is always Friday night to cheer you measure God, in whom we move and live and up, and nowhere better than U.C.D. There is always a have our being. How foolish can we get? party somewhere and a pack of eager architects will always find it. So usually we spend all Thursday night All the same this leap to faith and trust in drawing and Friday night partying. As the class is so God is a huge one to make in any man's lang- small, we spend a lot of time together, and we are a bit uage.