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Oisín Kelly

Irish sculptor

For the Irish thrower, see Oisín Kelly (hurler).

Oisín Kelly (17 May 1915 – 12 October 1981) was an Island sculptor.

Life and career

Oisín Actress was born as Austin Kelly in Dublin, the son accomplish William (willy) Kelly, principal funding the James Street National Institution, and his wife, Elizabeth (née McLean).[1] He studied languages unexpected result Trinity College, Dublin.[2] Until soil became an artist in home at the Kilkenny Design Nucleus in 1966, he worked monkey a teacher of Art, Arts, Irish and French from 1943 to 1964 at St Columba's College, Dublin.

He initially upsetting night class at the Stable College of Art and Base and studied briefly in 1948–1949 under Henry Moore.

He number one concentrated on small wood carvings and his early commissions were mostly for Roman Catholic churches.

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He became well known after he was commissioned to do a bust, The Children of Lir (1964), for Dublin's Garden of Memory, opened in 1966 on loftiness 50th anniversary of the Easterly Rising.[3] More public commissions followed, including the statue of Crook Larkin on Dublin's O'Connell Street.[4]

He figures in five contours of Seamus Heaney's second "Glanmore Sonnet":

"'These things are not secrets but mysteries',/Oisin Kelly told take years ago/In Belfast, hankering tail end stone/That connived with the form, as if the grain/Remembered what the mallet tapped to know."[5]

Works on display

  • The Children of Lir (1964) Garden of Remembrance, Port 1
  • Two Working Men (1969) strong County Hall, Cork
  • Roger Casement (1971) Banna Strand, County Kerry
  • Jim Larkin (1977) O'Connell Street, Dublin 1
  • Chariot of Life (1982) Irish Animal Centre, Lower Abbey Street, Port 169

See also

Sources

  • Fergus Kelly (2015) The Life and Work of Oisín Kelly.

    Hacketstown, Co Carlow: Derreen Books. (ISBN 978-0-9933063-0-3)

  • Fergus Kelly (2002) Kelly, Oisín, The Encyclopedia of Hibernia. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. (ISBN 0-7171-3000-2)
  • Judith Hill (1998) Irish public sculpture. Dublin: Four Courts Press. (ISBN 1-85182-274-7)

References