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JACK MORROW (1872-1926) Athchuinge Náisiúin na

JACK MORROW (1872-1926) Athchuinge Náisiúin na hÉireann, an Chomhdáil na Síothchána Pen and ink on card, 29 x 14cm Signed Seágan MacMurchadha. Bearing label verso inscribed 'original drawing by Jack Morrow for cover of Ireland's Appeal to the Peace Conference 1918' Morrow was a landscape painter and political cartoonist, born in Belfast in 1872; his father George was a painter and decorator and he was one of eight sons, most of whom were very creative. In 1902 he was elected a member of the Belfast Art Society and in 1906 he exhibited at the Oireachtas exhibition in Dublin. Morrow was a regular contributor to The Republic (a separatist weekly founded by Bulmer Hobson), with his full page cartoon Catching Retreats featuring in January 1907. In 1908 six of the eight Morrow sons including Jack held an exhibition of paintings in D'Olier Street, and around the same time Morrow taught design at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. From 1917 onwards he was particularly active as a political cartoonist. He died in Dublin in 1926. This cartoon depicts a standing figure of Erin, on the shoreline with her back to the viewer. She is under an archway with a banner above in Irish that translates 'Petition to the Nation of Ireland, to the Peace Conference 1918'. Her chained wrists are broken and she bids farewell to peace on these isles with one hand and holds a white dove in the other; the sun is setting in the distance with the Latin Pax for peace setting behind it.