Legendary Landscapes of Ireland

By Veronica Heywood and Christopher Daybell

"Legendary Landscapes of Ireland" is a book of the artist Veronica Heywood's paintings illustrated with words. Inspired by the Dindshenkus, ancient poems from the golden age; a guide map in poetry to the legendary landscapes. The heroes and heroines of the legends are portrayed in their landscapes and tell their own stories. Then a

• Language: English
• Publisher: Veronica Heywood
• Release date: Apr 19, 2019
• ISBN: 9781916048317

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Title

Legendary Landscapes of Ireland

Copyright

LEGENDARY LANDSCAPES of Ireland

Paperback: ISBN 978-1-9160483-0-0

Ebook: ISBN 978-1-9160483-1-7

Published by Éigse Laoghaire

Both paintings and text by Veronica Heywood

Prints of the Legendary Landscape paintings are available from: [e-mail]

© Veronica Heywood 2019

Design and layout by Francesca Giannotta

Portrait photo by Margaret Brown

Cover photo by Veronica Heywood

Contributions by Gian Tapinassi

Poet/translator John Minahane translated The Song of Amergin

The late poet Christopher Daybell wrote the Tribute

Dingle fisherman Mick Brick told the Voyage of Bran legend

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No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photo copying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author.

Summary

Legendary Landscapes is a book of images illustrated with words. Inspired by the Dindshenkus, ancient poems from the bardic oral tradition, a guide map in poetry to the Legendary Landscapes.

The heroes and heroines of legend are portrayed in their landscapes and tell their own stories. Then into the present, the search for these magical places in the landscape, was quite an adventure.

This book is just the beginning; the artist/author will have to live another 2,000 years to complete the series of Legendary Landscapes.

About Veronica Heywood

Veronica Heywood, Artist, Environmentalist and Arts Educator; born in Australia; childhood spent in Hong Kong; studied Art at Central St Martin’s, London. Fell in love with Ireland on a family Holiday and never left; painting around the Irish landscape and drawing out the talents of others, ever since. Suffered from Painter’s block as a result of an accident; attended creative writing groups instead and thus was inspired to write. Thinking that she might suffer from writer’s block as well and get mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records for having the greatest number of blocks; that won’t happen, as she has had a couple of works published. Watch this space for the third publication combining both her writing and her painting.

Comments from my fellow creative writers

A very enjoyable read as always, Veronica

Lovely writing style, lyrical and poetic; always appropriate for the ancient past

Lovely connection between Native American beliefs and ancient Irish poetry

Paul Corbett

There’s a flow and rhythm to the writing and it reads very well

Julia Camacho

Love the technical and inspirational elements to the paintings appearing in the text

Carol Dillon

Lovely language

John P Kyne

Tribute

Veronica

There are the talks with you

In the fields of our memory

The corn shimmering with the haze

Which is the drowsy mark of summer

The opposite of your landscapes

Picked out and clear

By your brown eyes

Around the thickets of our