Carving, Sculpting & Teaching with Stone
Victor was delighted to lead the stone-carving workhops at the recent Tirconnell Stone Festival Participants young and old worked with Kilkenny limestone and sandstone to create small sculptural pieces that they were able to take home with them at the end of the festival. Victor offers a range of courses from his own West Cork …
Last year Wilf Stock came to visit me on the Sheep’s Head peninsula for a weekend stone-carving course. Wilf took to stone-carving like a natural, and it was a pleasure to pass on to him some of the skills involved in carving letters in stone. After the course, 75-year-old Wilf bought himself some chisels, and …
Victor Daly has carved the Munster crest that takes pride of place on ‘The Gathering of Stones’ in the Lough Boora Discovery Park in Co. Offaly. The Gathering of Stones is a dry stone monument built by the people of Ireland for the people of Ireland across the world. All of the stone for this …
Victor was delighted to star in a recent TV broadcast which focused on life along our stretch of Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way touring route. The TV crew came to visit Victor at his workshop in Rossnacaheragh, just outside Ahakista on the Sheep’s Head peninsula, and he chatted to them about his work and the tradition …
