30" x 30" - Oil on canvas - SOLD
The Tackled Pony
30" x 30" - Oil on canvas - SOLD
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| ' Tackling a horse is not a fool's job. Never forget that,' Danny Dooley had spoken curtly to Mark one fair morning when the younger man tended to take the exercise for granted. ' Tackling a horse properly will save your horse's life and maybe your own. What if the two traces are not tied to the same length! How about the damage such carelessness will cause to your horse's breast! How about if the slides are not greased and the straddle shifts! You'll scorch your horse's breast for sure. What if you forget your bellyband and your horse bolts! I knew chaps that tackled horses and they didn't know a common bit from a running bit. Wronging a horse is as bad as wronging a woman. A good woman or a good horse will never let you down. Remember that always and you won't go far wrong.' - John B. Keane DURANGO |
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| Listowel, Co. Kerry -- The annual Listowel Horse Fair is always held the first week in October. The square is filled with horses, buyers, sellers, vans, trucks, and the occasional lucky tourist. And you better watch where you step. | |
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The John B. Keane Pub sits at the end of the square, a cozy place with walls covered with posters of the many plays and movies that sprang from the great man's stories of rural Ireland. His widow Mary still runs the kitchen and is well known for her soup. We spent a pleasant hour there, enjoying hot tea and discussing the time the 1948 Kerry football team played for the all-Ireland championship in the Polo Grounds, New York City, USA.. |
Irish Art - Paintings and Prints of Ireland:
James Joyce - W.B. Yeats - Oscar Wilde - John B. Keane - Samuel Beckett - Michael Hartnett - Céide Fields - The Way Home - I Will Give You Ireland - Marin's Quilt - Brigid's Cloak - Patrick's Quilt - Listowel Trader - Connemara Lady - The Negotiation - White Foal - The Tackled Pony - Piebald-soul - Listowel Pony - Connemara Pony - Mulranny Pony - Cooling Down - A Unicorn in Clare - Travelers - Grafton Street - Fiddler Joe - Joe Murphy - Patsy Whelan - Bodhran Player - Galway Street Musician - The Burren: After the Rain - Maam Cross - Allihies Parish -Mountry Sentry - Fanore Hill - Rainy Day in Clare - Burren Thistle - Donegal Cottage - I Remember Ireland - Celtic Biker - Stairway to Heaven - West Cork - Window on Innismere - Aran islands - Dunworley Strand - Timoleage Abbey - West Cork - Water Lily - Five Irishmen - Listowel - Cemetery South of Enniskillen - The Face of Ireland - Suppertime in Kerry - Achill Ram - Windy Connemara Sheep - Connor Pass Sentry - Show Off - sheep - Bunratty Castle Hen - Lowtide near Roundstone, County Limerick from Heaven, Achill Ram, Sheep, Irish Quilt Prints, Irish Golf, Scotland Golf, Prints of Ireland - The Irish Quilt - Digital prints of Irish Rocks - Lough Swilly - Giants's Causeway
