“The parlour, unheated, was my favourite room. And despite the cold that sometimes seeped under my skin, I spent hours in it because the parlour had a piano. Here I would sit and play and play, I didn’t feel the cold. The notes and their vibrations were the pull. Sounds that warmed me.”

Susan O’Neill

Fine art print mounted on dibond. Photograph by John Kelly, to accompany text by Susan O’Neill 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

80 ᳵ 59.5cm