Filmmaker · Ireland
Bob Quinn
Bob Quinn was born in Dublin in 1935. A teacher, a sales representative, then a producer at Irish public television, he left it in 1969 in protest against its commercialisation. In 1973 he co-founded the company Cinegael at Carraroe, in the Irish-speaking Connemara, and has lived in the region since. The author of a documentary series on the origins of the Irish, he is a member of Aosdána, the country's academy of artists, and in 2001 received the Irish Film Institute's lifetime achievement award.