1916/2016 Arts

15/01/2022

Rochelle Rubinstein print and paint on Paper 1/1. Christmas present finally Framed. Lovely piece by Rochelle created when on a residence in Ireland many years ago.

31/12/2021

great clip

09/02/2021

All Ireland 32 county Cross Country

04/11/2020

05/04/2020

GPO

05/04/2020

Sunday morning run Martin Gale

19/04/2019

SANDRO CHIA

Irish Tricolour and Ghostly heads for 1916/2016

When you look at this work, the ghostly heads of the rebels from 1916, not only did the Turin Shroud come to mind but the opening lines of W.B Yeats 1916 Poem, “ I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces......” . Chia and Yeats use brush and pen to create atmosphere successfully, Yeats shortly after the rising, Chia one hundred years later.
In conversation with Sandro, it became apparent that he “has respect and admiration for people who give their lives for a cause”. The Irish, who fought for independence and those who enlisted to fight in the First World War with the hope of getting Home Rule.
Typically a Chia work, the heads draped in a tricolour, ghostly heads, could easily represent rebels or heroes from his native Italy or anywhere in the world. This work respects the Irish men, women and children who died for a cause in 1916.
Sandro Chia.

Easter, 1916
I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces.......

....We know their dream; enough
To know they dreamed and are dead.
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?
I write it out in a verse --
MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.

W.B Yeats (from Easter 1916 poem)

08/03/2019

Alice Milligan by Alice Maher two great Irish people , international women's day.

12/12/2017