Carving, Sculpting & Teaching with Stone
The West Cork Stone Symposium celebrates stone as part of our environment and as a source of inspiration throughout the ages The event will be held in Ahakista on West Cork’s Sheep’s Head peninsula from 23-25 March 2018, as Victor Daly welcomes the best stone carvers and dry stone wallers from across Europe to this …
Victor Daly’s carving of County Cork has taken pride of place on a new national monument Victor was very proud to represent Cork as the carver of the county’s stone for the ‘Clocha na hÉireann’ or ‘Stones of Ireland’ monument erected in Glencolmcille in Donegal. The monument is a map of Ireland made up from …
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 …
It’s interesting, as a sculptor in the twenty-first century, to get the chance to experiment with a type of stone-carving that was at its most popular in fifth-century Ireland. Ogham stones served as a means of commemorating someone, and the lines along the side of the stone spelled out their names, and sometimes details about …
