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The Train Crash

July 5, 2010
07:08 AM

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Strange how things come back to haunt me.

Clives Nunn’s recent blogs have been about a group of artists who arrived out of the blue last week, to paint their beautiful cottage home in Ballyduff.

One of these, Jack O Hare, was our next door neighbour in Kilmacleague.

We lived for ten years or so in a bungalow in Kilmacleague, by the estuary of the back strand between Tramore and Dunmore East.

Our next door neighbour was Jack O Hare, one time disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright and then head of the department of Building Studies in WIT.
His house, self designed, was a most unusual shape and, to our shame it was always called the train crash by the Dwyers.

Now I am not so sure.
I went rooting in the internet for a picture and found this in the archives of the Dyehouse Lane Gallery where he had had an exhibition.

He is a particularly fine watercolour artist, as the above picture of the house shows.
I have to agree with Clive and recognise that maybe the house should also be looked at again.

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