Recent Exhibitions
CEER(NCAD), RHA, Dublin
SAA, RHH, Westminster, London
Castle Gallery, Dublin
Brock Gallery, Blackrock, Co Dublin
CEER (NCAD), Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin International Art Exhibition, Sydney, Australia
Elm Park G&SC Members Exhibition, Dublin
Gallery of Art & Design, Co Louth
Booterstown Community Art Exhibition, Dublin
Merrion Sq Sunday Showings, Dublin
Irish Garden Festival Exhibition, RDS, Dublin
Sandymount Joycean Exhibition, Dublin
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Under Construction
a poem by Roger
Cummiskey
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I am genius I am Joyce.
A Dubliner of some renown
Hated, Reviled, admired
Poet and critic
Ten years I had to wait for
Dubliners to be published
For pittance
Because I'm genius
Because I'm Joyce.
Yes, James Jaysus Joyce.
A Portrait helped
Fifteen years to complete Ulysses
The greatest daytime novel of all time
Teaching English as a foreign language
In Trieste and Zurich.
Patronised by a Yank of Faith
Though I had none, Harriet Weaver.
Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare in Paris
My office
And Nora my model, inseparable;
Hemmingway carried me over his shoulder
Drunk, we sang, argued, danced,
Played the piano and guitar.
Dublin, my town, 1904 my year
And 16th June my day
But all wanted to know in their
Ignorance if they featured,
And did they what.
They suffered for their lack of faith
In James Jaysus Joyce
Because I'm genius because I'm Joyce
Mine eyes are a bitch
I've moved and moved
Borrowed and borrowed
Written and written.
Blind Homer helped the plot
And Ibsen influenced
So did Gogarty ha! ha!
Beckett learned
Wild geese abroad.
Bloom was Israelite
One for Molly.
Bugden my pal, helped get the
Greatest night time novel of all time
Out of the Traps.
Chamber Music and
Poems Penyeach
Kept debtors at bay
Anna Livia Plurabelle and Earwicker
Thought their way through the night
Towards the sea
Work in Progress
Tim Finnegan had lived at Watling Street
Shaun and Shem come into their own.
Because I'm genius because I'm Joyce.
Author: Roger Cummiskey, 1998
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Roger Cummiskey has developed a distinct
style which includes figurative, land and
seascapes as well as floral
interpretations. His paintings are in
private collections in the USA, UK,
Australia, Spain, South Africa, Japan and
Ireland. Roger studied painting and
drawing at Newpark College; The National
College of Art and Design; University
College Dublin and privately with
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Roger's interest and
involvement in the Arts spans a lifetime.
He has been involved with Very Special
Arts; Eucrea; The Temple Bar Gallery and
Studios and is a Patron of the Dublin
Theatre Festival. He has
traveled widely throughout the world
where he has visited and appreciated the
works of famous Masters and Contemporary
Artists.
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Sunday Business
Post Online
Computers in Business Supplement.
Sunday Business Post Online
Success
for online artist
By John Dunne
Online
artist Roger Cummiskey has been much
in demand of late. His painting
"Some Greeks Some Romans,
The River Slaney 2000" has been
selected to represent Ireland at the
Millennium Art Exhibition.
The exhibition will show 260
paintings from around the world at
the Mall Gallery, London and will
then travel on to the World Trade
Centre in Stockholm, the Townhall
Centre in Brussels, and the United
Nations Building in New York.
Earlier this year one of Cummiskey's
water colours was chosen as the image
for the front cover of the 1999
Bloomsday magazine published by the
James Joyce Centre.
This was especially pleasing for him
as his work draws inspiration from
Joyce's writings.
Cummiskey was one of the first Irish
artists to make use of the web and
much of his work can be
viewed at
http://www.rogercummiskey.com/
Roger is
representing Ireland in a World wide
(52 country) Millennium Art
Exhibition showing in London,
Stockholm, Brussels and New York.
14 Lindenvale, Blackrock, Co Dublin, Ireland.
Phone +353 1 283 2253.
ICQ: # 40549045
http://ireland.com/literature/bloomsday/joyce/cummiskey.htm
http://web.ome.net.au/~silverback/ireland
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