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Oisin kelly sculptures by michelangelo Oisín Kelly was born as Austin Kelly in Dublin, the son of William (willy) Kelly, principal of the James Street National School, and his wife, Elizabeth (née McLean). [1] He studied languages at Trinity College, Dublin. [ 2 ].

Oisín Kelly

Irish sculptor

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

Oisín Kelly (17 May – 12 October ) was an Irish sculptor.

Life and career

Oisín Kelly was born as Austin Kelly in Dublin, the son of William (willy) Kelly, principal of the James Street National School, and his wife, Elizabeth (née McLean).[1] He studied languages at Trinity College, Dublin.[2] Until he became an artist in residence at the Kilkenny Design Centre in , he worked as a teacher of Art, English, Irish and French from to at St Columba's College, Dublin.

He initially attended night class at the National College of Art and Design and studied briefly in – under Henry Moore.

He originally concentrated on small wood carvings and his early commissions were mostly for Roman Catholic churches. He became well known after he was commissioned to do a sculpture, The Children of Lir (), for Dublin's Garden of Remembrance, opened in on the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising.[3] More public commissions followed, including the statue of James Larkin on Dublin's O'Connell Street.[4]

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

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

Works on display

  • The Children of Lir () Garden of Remembrance, Dublin 1
  • Two Working Men () by County Hall, Cork
  • Roger Casement () Banna Strand, County Kerry
  • Jim Larkin () O'Connell Street, Dublin 1
  • Chariot of Life () Irish Life Centre, Lower Abbey Street, Dublin

See also

Sources

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

    Hacketstown, Co Carlow: Derreen Books. (ISBN&#;)

  • Fergus Kelly () Kelly, Oisín, The Encyclopedia of Ireland.

    Oisin kelly sculptures by michelangelo paintings These biographies are excerpted from Art and Architecture of Ireland Volume III: Sculpture , edited by Andrew Carpenter and Paula Murphy and published by the Royal Irish Academy. KELLY, OISÍN (Austin Ernest Kelly) (–81). By Brian Fallon. Kelly was born in Dublin on 17 May , the son of a schoolteacher.

    Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. (ISBN&#;)

  • Judith Hill () Irish public sculpture. Dublin: Four Courts Press. (ISBN&#;)

References