Timeline

  • Crash of steam roller at bank in 1971.

  • Civil Defence dinner at the Savoy Hotel in 1971.

  • Dinner for Limerick Soccer Team at Cruise's Hotel in 1971, with Al Finucane and Des O'Malley T.D., Minister, holding the FAI Cup.

  • Two girls at Shannonside Offices, O'Connell Street, in 1971.

  • Killaloe yachting, May 1976

  • Limerick (0) versus Shamrock Rovers (0) at the Markets Field in 1971.

  • Catholic Institute, Limerick versus Church of Ireland Cork, ladies hockey Cup, 1976

  • Sexton Street C.B.S. gaelic football team at the Gaelic Grounds in 1970.

  • St Mary's Confraternity dinner dance at Parkway Motel in 1971

  • The repatriation of the body of Frank Stagg at Shannon Airport from Wakefield Prison in Britain where he died on hunger strike on 12 February 1976.

  • "Lines were skin was once smooth, forgotten faces and what seems like distant encounters are all part of the transience of time, and our inevitable experience of ageing. Yet, though wisdom and experience are products of this process and invariably alter our outlook, some things ultimately never change...

    "Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing."
    - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.”"

  • My response is rooted in childhood and our relationship to the immediate surroundings in our past. I incorporated an object from this captured moment to recreate a moment in my own childhood, altering and fusing the past.

  • "The Ranks Flour Mills played a crucial part in Limerick Industry and life for decades. The building was decimated by a fire in 1975. This Collagraph print captures the beauty and darkness of such destruction. I wanted to respond to the life of the building and the industry which went into decline at the same time. Ranks was a house hold name and this print celebrates a Limerick icon."

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