“When my son, my husband and I arrived in Ireland in 1981, we were greeted at times with ‘and how long have you been home?’ I love the assumption that we belonged here and had just been away for a while. As if Ireland was the home that everyone returns to at some point in their lives.”

Jessie Lendennie

Fine art print mounted on dibond. Photograph by John Kelly, to accompany text by X 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