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Artist Brian Whelan Captures His Dream As The Quiet Men Come Alive

October 24, 2010
Artist Brian Whelan Captures His Dream As The Quiet Men Come Alive

By Sabina Clarke Strolling  through  the   spectacular exhibition  The Quiet Men, now at Villanova University through October 6th, with  artist Brian  Whelan,  the exhibition’s   co-curator and driving force,  who, for years, toyed  with   the concept  of  a major contemporary London  Irish visual art exhibition  exploring the experience of  20th century Irish immigrants to Britain—we...
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Painting Seamus

June 5, 2010
Painting Seamus

By Barrie Maguire Painting is always stressful, but painting Seamus Heaney taught me the meaning of the word. All of my previous Irish Writer paintings, eleven of them, had been of deceased giants of Irish Literature, from Joyce to Yeats, from Synge to Shaw. They were all based on famous images, interpreted in any...
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