RE Corner Gallery (Cormac Byrnes) FREE Entry with thanks to Noël O’Callaghan and Douglas Henderson
We are delighted that during the festival there will be an exhibition of paintings by Drimoleague-born painter Diarmuid Ó Ceallacháin in RÉ Corner Gallery (Cormac Byrnes). Diarmuid O’Ceallacháin (1915-1993) was an Irish painter known for his landscape and figurative work. He won a number of awards including the Taylor Prize and a diploma and medal (Prix Thorlet) from the Academie Francais. He was teacher of painting at the Crawford School of Art and Design in Cork city from 1940 to 1970.
Though his work is in many private and corporate collections in Ireland, the U.K. and U.S.A., Crawford Municipal Art Gallery is the only public collection in which his work is represented – with five of his paintings. One of these paintings “The Fiddler” has been the inspiration for two musical compositions; Serendipity by Philip Martin and Colourvision by John Gibson (Commissioned by Tableaux Networks, Cork Institute of Technology), and poem of the same title by Aiden Murphy published in the collection “Stark Naked Blues”.
In the 1996 James Adam’s “Important Irish Art” auction, a special section of the catalogue featured his work describing him as “Cork’s finest Twentieth Century painter”. His work has also been auctioned in De Veres, Whytes and Sothebys.