“I began to learn the social currency of storytelling: if you had a good story you were always welcome, and even more so if you hadn’t a good story but you could make it.

‘Frankie Boy,’ Nancy said, ‘Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.'”

Frank Blake

Fine art print mounted on dibond. Photograph by John Kelly, to accompany text by Frank Blake in “The Art of Place: People and Landscape of County Clare” book, published 2022.

Included in The Art of Place: People and Landscape of County Clare exhibition at Súil, 16th November 2024 – 31st January 2025.

2021

119 ᳵ 80cm