The life and work of Oisín Kelly / Fergus S. Kelly ; photography by Hugh McElveen.
Publisher: Hacketstown, Co. Carlow : Derreen Books, 2015Description: xiii, 94 pages : illustrations ; 31 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780993306303
- 23 735.23
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Loanable Book | Library | Oversized Reserve | 735.23 KEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 000414003 |
This book commemorates the centenary of Oisín Kelly's birth on 17 May 1915.
Includes bibliographical references.
"This book provides an account of Oisín's early years in Dublin, and of his career as a schoolmaster in Clones School, Bishop Foy School Waterford and St. Columba's College, Co. Dublin. He started wood-carving in about 1940, and by the early 1950s had established himself as a prominent scuptor in this medium. His first commissions were mostly for churches, but he also completed many smaller works for exhibition and sale. His appointment in 1964 as artist-in-residence at the Kilkenny Design Workshops enabled him to retire from teaching. In this post, he carried out a wide range of designs, of which a series of ceramic birds was especially popular."
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