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The Only Way To Travel |
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| The Irish trance medium Eileen Garrett (1893-1970) founded the publishing house Creative Age Press in 1941 and the The Parapsychology Foundation in 1951 (both in New York). Eileen Garrett first travelled to New York in 1931 on invitation of the American Society of Psychical Research. During the 1930s and ‘40s Garrett and her daughter (now Eileen Coly) frequently crossed the Atlantic from Europe to New York on White Star and Cunard Line ships. They sailed on the Olympic, the Manhattan, the Queen Mary, the Britannic, the Samaria, many of which were built in Belfast by Harland and Wolff. During MacWilliam’s research she accessed shipping records documenting the Garrett sailings and discovered that in September 1934 some of her own cousins sailed from Southampton to New York on the SS Majestic, on the same voyage as Eileen Garrett and her then 18 year old daughter. In ‘The Only Way To Travel’, Eileen Coly and her daughter Lisette read the shipping records and look at images from the Garrett family photograph album. What is revealed is a world of 1930s high living, the cocktail hour, the rise of the New York skyscraper, and an era of glamorous travel, optimism and new horizons. | ||||||||
| For information about the Parapasychology Foundation click here |
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| 13 Roland Gardens Exhibitions and Screenings 2010 Downstairs Review, Gimpel Fils, London 2009 'Time is a Sausage', Domobaal, London 2008 The Drawing Office, Harland and Wolff, Belfast |
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