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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
‘Haiti don't deserve that,' local man worries about hometown amid President Trump's travel ban
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — A Rockford man expressed his personal concerns with President Trump's travel ban on 12 countries. One of the countries impacted is Haiti, where James Casimir was born. Casimir said he moved to Rockford in 1994 for a better life and because of a political downfall in the country, but his family still lives in Haiti. 'I love Haiti, and I love to live there,' Casimir said. 'I always go back to Haiti twice a year. I have brothers and sisters, my mom is here, but all my family, nieces and cousins, people I grew up with are still over there.' Casimir said his house is in Port-au-Prince and his friend is living in it. Within the last two months, Casimir said gangs have taken over the neighborhood, forcing his friends and family members to live on the street. Between this and President Trump's travel ban, Casimir said he doesn't think he'll be able to see them for a long time. 'It's going to affect everybody,' Casimir said. 'A lot of Haitian who been here, they got their green card, got their Haitian passport. They need to go back to their country, see their family and come back. There's a problem.' Chris Weickert is the Executive Director for Hope for Haitians, a Rockford-based organization that provides services to people in Haiti. Weickert said it will be difficult to get work done with the ban. 'Not being able to have our country director, who is a native Haitian physician down there, come into the country and do those meetings will be difficult,' Weickert said. 'It's a very unhelpful thing to do to one of our closest neighbors that has the greatest needs.' Casimir said he hopes the ban will be over sooner rather than later. 'I hope it ends today,' Casimir said. 'This come right now about President Trump is very bad for the country. I know Haiti is bad. I know Haiti has terrorist people, but Haiti not a terrorist country. Haiti don't deserve that. It is unclear how long the travel ban will last, but Weickert said he plans to continue supporting the people of Haiti in any way he can. Hope for Haitians will be having its 23rd annual 'Evening in the Tropics' fundraising event on August 23 at Prairie Street Brewing Co. to raise money to create a new village in Haiti. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
RTÉ News
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Meet Casimir Markievicz - a Polish artist in bohemian Dublin
In Ireland, the name 'Markievicz' immediately conjures the figure of Constance Markievicz, Irish revolutionary heroine. For the first time, a new exhibition explores the artistic life and work of her Polish husband, Casimir Markievicz – painter, playwright, and larger-than-life personality – and his place in Dublin's bohemian circles on the eve of the Revolution. Dr Emily Mark-FitzGerald introduces Casimir Markievicz: A Polish Artist in Bohemian Dublin below. On a Paris evening in early 1899, two Polish friends arrived at a ball attended by fellow international art students, drawn to the hedonistic atmosphere of the fin-de-siècle city. One of the young men – the writer Stefan Krzywoszewski – was struck by a young Irishwoman present, 'who appeared to be about twenty years of age… conspicuous for her proud bearing. She was a living Rossetti or Burne-Jones'. Seizing his friend, Casimir Markievicz, he insisted 'Do dance with this lady. You will be well matched in height and bearing.' Thus began one account of the first meeting of Constance Gore-Booth (1868-1927) and Casimir Markievicz (1874-1932), who married in 1900 after a whirlwind courtship in Paris. From 1903-1913, 'Casi and Con', as they affectionately referred to one another, made Dublin their home. In a city teeming with rival theatrical factions, writers, and visionaries of the Irish Revival, they pursued their artistic ambitions. Cycling around Dublin with paint and canvases strapped to their bicycles, they revelled in (and led) its avant-garde clubs and salons, whilst also gliding amongst the elite of Dublin Castle. It was a decade of competing visions of what art could be, of how theatre and art might inform politics (and vice versa), and what fate lay ahead for Ireland as a nation. Constance Markievicz would go on to become one of Ireland's revolutionary heroines – but a new exhibition on show in Dublin Castle from 22 April to 15 September 2025 – Casimir Markievicz: A Polish Artist in Bohemian Dublin (1903-13) – brings Casimir's life and work back into the frame. Casimir's background from a Polish landed family settled in Ukraine mirrored Constance's upper-class upbringing in Lissadell, Co Sligo, and both sought to rebel against bourgeois society by adopting an unconventional lifestyle and marriage. The exhibition explores Casimir's involvement in Dublin's vibrant cultural life as a painter, playwright, and bon vivant, as well as the interconnections between Ireland, Poland, and Ukraine. Rarely-seen paintings and photographs created by Casimir and Constance of Ukraine's landscapes and people, drawn from private Markievicz family collections, are a particular highlight. The exhibition evokes this vibrant period of Dublin with more than eighty paintings, drawings, photographs and objects loaned from the public collections of the National Gallery, Crawford Gallery, Model in Sligo, Hugh Lane Gallery, National Museum, National Library, Pearse Museum, UCD Special Collections, and the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland; and works from private collections including Lissadell House, United Arts Club, and Sir Josslyn Gore-Booth. Sponsored by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dublin, and co-produced with the OPW/Dublin Castle, the exhibition testifies to the irrepressible spirit of Casimir Markievicz, embodied in the motto of the Dublin 'Reality League' club he founded: Long Live Life! Dr Emily Mark-FitzGerald is Professor of Art History and Cultural Policy at University College Dublin. Along with Dr Kathryn Milligan (NCAD) she is curator of Casimir Markievicz: A Polish Artist in Bohemian Dublin, on show in Dublin Castle from 22nd April – 14th September 2025 - find out more here.
