Athbhliain faoi mhaise is faoi shéan daoibh go léir!
A very happy and peaceful New Year to you all!
A new year and lots of exciting, new things happening and planned! Watch this space! And also Working Artist Studios.
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Fite Fuaite Pop-Up Gaeltacht
Ag reáchtáil Tob-Ghaeltacht —- Hosting a Pop-Up Gaeltacht in 49, North St., Skibb. the final Thursday of the month at 2.00pm. For those who are fluent, hesitant or even without any Irish. Fáilte roimh chách.
Next: 23rd Feb. 2.00pm.
Ag tosnú arís…Starting again!
Irish classes for beginners and intermediate levels on Thursday mornings. 11.00: ard-rang; 12.00 beginners. In Working Artist Studios, Ballydehob. Contact me for details 086 053 1255.
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Haiku of the week
Mist draws down layers:
backdrop; mid-planes; soft foreground.
Blurring the landscape.
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For more about haiku, click here. Then, browse my Haiku of the Week Archives
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Having fun at The Given Note, a morning of poetry and song in Working Artist Studios for the Ballydehob Folk Festival.
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Tabhair tacaíocht d’ealaíontóirí áitiúla!
Support artists you know, who are local, who need your support!
Ceol! Leabhair! Music! Books!
le Paul Ó Colmáin:
New work: Jazz Book, a limited edition artbook of lino prints of Jazz Greats
also: i ndomhain a lino print series.
Children’s book
Behind Every Hero – Fionn MacCumhail & the Scottish Giant
by Paul Ó Colmáin, illustrated by Dubhaltach Ó Colmáin.
A re-telling of an old tale for young ‘uns and old ‘uns alike!
To purchase a copy and see photos of the launch click the link above.
…agus Suantraí
The latest album, an t-albam nua, "...agus Suantraí " – an album of calming, restorative, lullaby-like songs – buy it immediately!
The Silence Unravelling
From Eblana Press, a book of haiku & tanka, by Paul Ó Colmáin,
The Silence Unravelling
“These haiku and tanka are fresh, accurate, insightful and clear. They delight in our one and only world; they lift the heart, and quiet the mind.” Theo Dorgan
Children’s book
…agus Suantraí
The Silence Unravelling
The books & cds are also available in the wonderful
Forest & Flock, Bantry
Working Artist Studios and Ballydehob Post Office.
Ranganna agus ceardlanna Gaeilge agus ealaíona trí Ghaeilge (óg is aosta) le fail.
Irish classes and art classes/ workshops through Irish available for young & old.
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Poulnabrone (card print)
Uisce faoi thalamh. Hidden. Buried.
In practising my Art, I am attempting to uncover an artefact in this bog that belongs to me.
“…glimpsed with atavistic instinct…”
Our language, Culture and Landscape are all connected. I cannot separate them.
“…gan teanga: gan anam..”
Like the Early Christian Irish monks, I seek to describe and marvel at Nature and express my response to it. Then to explore that response. To imagine and re-imagine.
My visual art, poetry and music and language are intertwined.
