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Ceol! Leabhair! Music! Books! 

le Paul Ó Colmáin:

Hot off the presses! From The Eblana Press:

A Place Where Ireland Is Invisible

by James Harpur and Paul Ó Colmáin

Fourteen poems about the Early Christian saints in Ireland along with out sixteen wood engravings. This is a limited edition, hard-backed high quality book, signed by both the author and the artist. Only €25! Buy here.

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 Jazz Book, a limited edition artbook of lino prints of Jazz Greats

 

also: i ndomhain a lino print series.

The books & cds are also available in the wonderful

Working Artist Studios and Ballydehob Post Office.

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We’ve uploaded Episode 10  (Recorded LIVE! at the Bandon Banshee Festival 2025 this Sunday 26th 2025.) the Podcast:

Into the Mythic – Ancient Irish Stories for Modern Times. Peeling back the layers from our ancient myths, what are they trying to tell us? Why do we still tell them?

On all the usual podcast platforms.

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Pop-Up Gaeltacht!

Fite Fuaite, An Sciobairín & Béal an Dá Chab, Artichoke (Ballydehob)

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.

Comhrá, craic, ceol…Conversation, Craic and some music, even!     

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Ranganna Gaeilge – ar siúl arís i Meán Fómhair. On again from September!

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

Na sleibhte faoi cheilt,                        The mountains hidden,

Tógann Béara céim ar chúl.         Béara takes a step backwards.

Bánú gan sneachta.                          Whitened without snow.

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. Another great festival. More here.

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Delighted to have won the Animated Shorts section of the Paris Independent Film Festival 2024!!!

Sceitimíní orm faoi seoladh mo fhíseán beochana nua agus EP nua!

Very excited at the launch of my new, animated music video and EP!

Roghnú Oifigiúil!

Official Selection for the Fastnet Film Festival!!!

AND winner of the Paris Independent Film Festival!!!

Illustrations, story and music by Paul Ó Colmáin.

Big thanks to Colm Rooney.

 

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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.