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Cork Hangups

The VQ Series.

A Pop Art take on the Cork vernacular.

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Rory G

The VQ Series.

Portait of Rory Gallagher as a boy recognising his links to MacCurtain St.

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St. Patrick's Hill

The VQ Series.

A tribute to all who've summited Patricks Hill!

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'Delightful' - Tribute to Hadji Bey's

The VQ Series.

Painted with thanks to Hadji Bey's for introducing Turkish Delight to Corkonians in the early 1900's!

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Cork Noir - The Everyman

The VQ Series

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Cork Noir - Kent Station

The VQ Series

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Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire

Painted for Ballincollig Post Office.

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Féile Fearann Rí

Painted for Music Generation Cork City to mark Féile Fearann Rí 2025.

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'Wish You were here'

Commissioned by Market Lane on Oliver Plunkett, this is a playful take on Cork City Centre being an island, cut off by the river Lee.

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'PROC' Welcome to Cork - lativan Box 

My first contribution to the People's Republic of Cork 'welcome' series. This features Cork's world champion rower Sanita Purpsure and a message for our Latvian friends = Laipni lūdzam Korkā!

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Creative Bandon - Scéal art trail 1/3

'Ghost Stories'. These paintings are illustrations based on stories from Dúchas, the national folklore collection.

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Creative Bandon - Scéal art trail 2/3

'Pooka Duant's Ghost'. These paintings are illustrations based on stories from Dúchas, the national folklore collection.

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Creative Bandon - Scéal art trail 3/3

'Old Cures'. These paintings are illustrations based on stories from Dúchas, the national folklore collection.

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Sir Alan Cobham's Flying Circus

A little something inspired by Sir Alan Cobham's Flying Circus that came to Ballincollig in the '30s. Painted at Healy's Post Office Ballincollig.

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Sir Alan Cobham's Flying Circus

A little something inspired by Sir Alan Cobham's Flying Circus that came to Ballincollig in the '30s. Painted at Healy's Post Office Ballincollig.

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Thanks for the Courage to care #2

Tribute to healthcare workers outside St Finbarr's Hospital. Commissioned by Cllr. Kieran McCarthy.

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Terence & Muriel MacSwiney

Tribute to Terence and Muriel MacSwiney. This is located on Douglas Rd near to where they both used to live on Eldred Terrace. Commissioned by Cllr. Kieran McCarthy.

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Thanks for the Courage to care #1

My tribute to healthcare workers for all their efforts during the COVID19 pandemic. Painted outside Cork University Hospital.

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Frederick Douglass

'I breathe and lo! the chattel becomes a man'. Painted to mark Douglass's visit to Cork.

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Brian Dillons Gaa

Promoting Brian Dillons Gaa underage teams.

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Brian Dillons Gaa

'Cluiche na Déithe'/ Game of the Gods... For Brian Dillons Gaa

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Brian Dillons Camogie

Painted as part of the national 20x20 campaign to promote women's sports in Ireland.

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Christmas Art - Ballincollig Post Office

Some festive artworks for Christmas 2020 at Healy's Post Office Ballincollig.

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Ballinlough Standing Stone

Commissioned by Cllr Kieran McCarthy, this box features a recreated 1815 sketch by Thomas Crofton Croker of the bronze age standing stone.

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Daniel Corkery

Daniel Corkery Portrait - Series of Electrical Box Paintings for Brian Dillons GAA Club in Dillons Cross and St Lukes.

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Seamus Murphy

Seamus Murphy Portrait - Series of Electrical Box Paintings for Brian Dillons GAA Club in Dillons Cross and St Lukes.

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Paul O'Leary

Paul O'Leary Tribute - Series of Electrical Box Paintings for Brian Dillons GAA Club in Dillons Cross and St Lukes.

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Brian Dillon

Brian Dillon Portrait - Series of Electrical Box Paintings for Brian Dillons GAA Club in Dillons Cross and St Lukes.

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The Hole in the Wall

Hole in the Wall - Series of Electrical Box Paintings for Brian Dillons GAA Club in Dillons Cross and St Lukes.

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Keep the FAITH

Keep the Faith - Series of Electrical Box Paintings for Brian Dillons GAA Club in Dillons Cross and St Lukes.

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Welcome to Clon

Pop art style painting set in a garden in Clonakilty. 

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cILLIAN mURPHY

Cillian Murphy Portrait set in a garden in Clonakilty.

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kAREN uNDERWOOD

Cork's greatest soul singer, Karen Underwood. Painted with Mad About Cork in collaboration by with Soul in the City music festival.

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bILL o'hERLIHY

Mad About Cork street art tribute to Bill O'Herily.

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jAMES wILKINSON

Cork's first city librarian. Played a key role in restoring the library following the devastation incurred during the Burning of Cork. Collaboration with Cllr Kieran McCarthy.

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Agnes Mary Clerke

The only Cork person with a crater on the moon named after them. Mad About Cork Collaboration with Blackrock Castle and Observatory.

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Rory Gallagher

Iconic musician and Cork legend, musician Rory Gallagher. Collaboration with Cork City Library.

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Ellen Hutchins

Ellen Hutchins was an early pioneering botanist who discovered, catalogued and illustrated hundreds of species of seaweed, lichens and and mosses. For Mad About Cork.

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From Dublin to Hollywood

Cairbre the Lion, born in Dublin in the early 1900s before moving to Hollywood and becoming the first-ever MGM mascot.

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Feens & Beors Love the Taste...

Tribute to Corkonians favourite fizzy pop, first manufactured on Kyrl's Quay in the city in the 1930s. For Mad About Cork.

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A Welcome on Every Street

Commission for ACET English College on Wellington Rd.

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Welcome to Cork, Kid!

Pop art style street art commissioned by ACET English School on Wellington Place.

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Cillian Murphy

Portrait of Cillian Murphy with a quote from a spoken verse from The Frank & Walters song, 'Stages'.

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King Joffrey

Tribute to the Cork actor, Jack Gleeson, who plays the detestable King Joffrey in Game of Thrones. For Mad About Cork.

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Ballinlough School Project #1

Collaboration with Our Lady of Lourdes NS where the pupils took part in a competition organised by Cllr. Kieran McCarthy to design artwork for a box in the Mad About Cork style.

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Ballinlough School Project #2

Collaboration with Our Lady of Lourdes NS where the pupils took part in a competition organised by Cllr. Kieran McCarthy to design artwork for a box in the Mad About Cork style.​​

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Mary Elmes

Cork's Schindler, Mary Elmes, worked as a humanitarian worker during the Spanish Civil War and World War 2, saving hundreds of Jewish people from entering concentration camps and almost certain death. For Mad About Cork.

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Kick the Wall at Salthill

Painted during a workshop with a group looking to set up a version of Mad About Cork for Galway.

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'Taylor loves the Franks'

Tribute to The Frank & Walters. Painted in collaboration between Mad About Cork and The Frank & Walters.

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Maggie Barry

A tribute to the fearless Cork folk singer, Maggie Barry.

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Perkin Warbeck

​Tribute to the man believed to be responsible for Cork being know as the 'rebel city', Perkin Warbeck, with a little nod to David Bowie too! 

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Ashling Thompson

Mad About Cork tribute to Cork camogie star Ashling Thompson.

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The Barrack St Boy

Daniel Florence O'Leary, South American liberator during the 1800s and right hand man of Simon Bolivar. Collaboration for Mad About Cork and Brodericks Chemist on Barrack St.

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