Our mission is to help restore part of the wonderful visual legacy that John Ford left us and to highlight Ford’s strong links with Ireland, both professionally, i.e. The Quiet Man, and personally (his origins in Spiddal, Co Galway, are perhaps not so well known), and in so doing, to honour Ireland’s enormous contribution to cinema through the achievements of this great film-maker.
Here to help put right the terrible condition of White O’Morn – the beautiful thatched cottage and centrepiece of John Ford’s classic movie ‘The Quiet Man’ which has been allowed to fall into ruin.
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A restored White O’Morn, in the condition in which it was used as the centrepiece of the movie, would be both a living monument and a lasting tribute to Ford’s enormous stature. It would, indeed, be a living celebration of Ireland’s preeminent place in movie history, and of the country’s influence on one of its most accomplished sons.
A more fitting icon cannot imagined: the perfect whitewashed Irish cottage, centrepiece of one of Ford’s most loved movies, and situated in the vicinity of where his parents left Ireland for a new life across the Atlantic. Indeed, Ford once emotionally described the very same cottage, in symbolic terms, as “…the little cottage I was born in”
White O’Morn, restored to its 1951 film glory would, we feel, be a way of bringing John Ford back home to Ireland and to his beloved Connemara.
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White O’Morn Foundation Website.
White O’Morn Foundation Facebook Page.
