Broken LandscapesErnie OMalley was a revolutionary republican and writer. One of the leading figures in the Irish independence and civil wars, he survived wounds, imprisonment and hunger strike, before going to the USA in 1928 to fundraise on de Valeras behalf. Broken Landscapes tells of his subsequent journeys, through Europe and the Americas, where OMalley moved in wide social circles that included Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Hart Crane and Jack B. Yeats. Back in

It gives a remarkable window on to the birds and the secret lives they lead all around us

and Dialogues

Back in Mayo he took up farming

daughter of the 2nd Duke of Leinster and niece of Lord Edward Fitzgerald

galloping intrigue packed with narrative twists and sumptuous evocations of Europe’s forgotten past

his interesting and reflective life helps fill out a more complex picture of the past than we may be generally used to

his erudition lightly worn

an event which revolutionized the graphic arts in Ireland and made the European tradition of printmaking available to Irish artists

sounds and smells

These include isometric views of friary sites and map-chronologies

The painting turns out to be more than a sublime depiction of Christ’s seizure in the Garden of Gethsemane

Reporting too for Dublin’s Hibernia