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Hello to Ewe | Original Painting | Art

Simply Art Cork

Fine art Irish landscape print of my original chalk pastel painting. This beautiful old stone building is situated between the West Cork coastal towns of Ahakista and Durrus, along the Sheep’s Head Peninsula.  
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The Pony House - Fine art landscape print

Sarah Elliott Fine Art

A Quiet Moment – Original acrylic framed painting on canvas board of our black and white cat staking out his area !
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A Quiet Moment - Original framed acrylic painting

Sarah Elliott Fine Art

Fun Art Portrait -A traditional Oil painting with the soul of a caricature, to best portray the full character of the Sitter.

Commission Oil painting- Fun Art Portrait

Fun Art & David Bog

A beautiful handmade Stained Glass feather.

Handmade Stained Glass Feather

Three Rock Glass Art

Turlough O’Carolan, that well known Irish Harper-Composer, was born in the year 1670 near Nobber, County Meath, where his father was a blacksmith.
In 1684, when he was 14 years of age, his family moved to Ballyfarnon, County Roscommon, where John Carolan – Turlough’s father – was employed by the McDermott-Roe family who lived at Alderford, Ballyfarnon.
Mrs. McDermott-Roe took an interest in him and had him educated. When Turlough was 18 years of age he contracted small pox, a disease which was usually fatal at the time. His life was spared but he was left permanently blind. Turlough’s blindness, in a way, was a blessing because it awakened in him a hidden gift for music.
It was then that his patron, Ms Mary McDermott-Roe, saw to it that he was trained in the Irish Harp. She had him apprenticed to a harper who was a relation of hers. She maintained him during his three years of study and when he reached 21 years of age provided him with a harp, a horse, a guide and sufficient money to begin his professional career. He started on his way as an Itinerant Harper.
At first he was not considered to be a great musician, mainly because he was an adult when he started studying, and when it was suggested to him that he try his hand at composing he did so and composed Sheemore and Sheebeg.
It was then his fame spread throughout Ireland and his career took off. The way Turlough made a living was to travel from big house to big house and from castle to castle, entertaining the households and the friends of some of the most famous and wealthy people in Ireland at the time.
Often as a special favour he would write a tune in honour of the man of the house or his wife or daughter. He called these tunes “Planxties”. He was very successful and people would delay weddings and funerals until he could be present to play the appropriate tune.
In 1720 , Turlough Carolan married Mary Maguire. He was then 50 years of age. Their first family home was a cottage on a parcel of land near Mohill, Co Leitrim, where they settled. They had seven children, six daughters and a son. In 1733 his wife Mary died.
Turlough Carolan was one of the last Irish Harpers who composed and a significant number of his works survive in single line melody. He started playing the harp when he was 18 years of age and became very skillful at it, but his .fame developed from his gift for composition and verse. When
Turlough Carolan was a very young man, before his blindness, he met and fell in love with a young woman named Bridget Cruise. Bridget was part of a noble family and Turlough’s family was of skilled labourers, so a match could never be made.
And even though he went on to live a very successful life, he never forgot Bridget and wrote three “Planxties” in her honour. He met her again near the end of his life when he was on his way to a Religious Retreat in County Donegal.
In the year 1738, feeling ill, he returned to the home of his patron, Ms Mary McDermott-Roe. It is said that his ‘final composition was to her Butler who brought him his last drink. He died on the 25th March, 1738, aged 68 years.
He was buried with much ceremony in the cemetery at Kilronan. A plaque in Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, honours him as “The last of the Irish Bards”, the man who brought to a close the centuries-old tradition of the Wandering Poet/Minstrel. Carolan’s wake is said to have lasted for four days. Harpers from over a wide area attended the wake and played their harps continuously. His funeral was also impressive with a large number of Priests taking part in the ceremony.

Turlough O'Carolan

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Original Oil Painting on canvas Free shipping within Ireland

High Water, Ross Castle

Olivia O'Carra - Oil Painting

Spring Walk – Fine art original chalk pastel Irish landscape painting of a lovely springtime walk in Ahakista, West Cork.
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Spring Walk - Framed original pastel painting

Sarah Elliott Fine Art

Framed art

Summer Time | Original Painting | Art

Simply Art Cork

Lantern by acrylic knife palette on deep edge canvas

Lantern in Abstract Art

Original hand painted guitar on deep edge canvas

Guitar in Abstract

Our photograph was taken during the first Lockdown, on the longest day of the year, 21st June, 2020 at Drumsna, Co. Leitrim. The statue, known locally and affectionately as “Sna” depicts a swimmer ready to dive in to the Shannon.

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This is a dotwork painting done in acrylic paint on canvas.
30.5cm x 30.5cm x 1.2cm

Dotwork Painting, Mandala on canvas

Melissa Bell Designs

This is a dotwork painting done in acrylic paint on canvas.
30.5cm x 30.5cm x 1.2cm

Dotwork Painting, Night Sky on canvas

Melissa Bell Designs

Painted in Oils on a 12″ x 10″ canvas Mounted in a white tray frame Framed measurement 15″ x 13″ Shipping free within Ireland

Horse and foal original painting

Olivia O'Carra - Oil Painting

Original Oil Painting on 10″ x 14″ canvas. Mounted on a white wooden tray frame .Framed measurement 15″ x 19″ Shipping free within Ireland

Olivia O'Carra - Oil Painting

Original oil Painting on 12″ x 16″ canvas Highly textured palette knife and brush painting Shipping free within Ireland

Spreading the Sunshine

Olivia O'Carra - Oil Painting

Deep edged canvas, 39 ins x 20ins.

Distant Hills | Original Painting | Art

Simply Art Cork

Framed painting on canvas, 20ins x 12ins,

Sea Shore | Original Painting | Art

Simply Art Cork

Stained Glass Blue Paw Print 4″ x 4″.

Blue Stained Glass Dog Paw Suncatcher 4" x 4"

Three Rock Glass Art

Original hand painting. Acrylic on deep edge canvassing

Abstract flowery wall

Original hand painted woodslice

Flowers in a strew basket

Original hand painting on magnetic canvas

Red flowers/ magnate mini canvas

The river Shannon, at Jamestown Weir, Co. Leitrim at dawn, on the shortest day of the year, 21st December, 2019.

The Shannon at sunrise

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