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Tag: ireland

You are light in my hand as a windrush might be.”

When you felt the red fire Of the forge, as it played, Did you feel, Too, my swordsman’s desire Run like blood on your blade And blue steel? A won­der­ful set of broad­sides from turn of the cen­tury Ire­land, illus­trated by the artist Jack B. Yeats. Each edi­tion was just 300 copies.  Art speaks to whomever will […]

Shades of blue light

I shared a bus ride in Ire­land once with a French man who car­ried more photo equip­ment than cloth­ing. It was 1979 and the bus ran local stops up into Done­gal from Killy­begs. I was on my way to a lit­tle town called Glen­columkille, where I’d spent a time­less week in a cot­tage with six […]