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Clare is a complicated county. A place of tradition and inspiration, of discipline and recklessness, of old habits and new beginnings. Editors Anne Jones and Peadar King set out to explore the dichotomy that resides within the Banner in their book, ‘The Art of Place: People and Landscape of County Clare’. The book features personal accounts of 31 Clare artists, who were either born in Clare or moved to the county. Later this week, this discussion will be brought to a live audience at the Armada Hotel in Spanish Point where two of the featured artists, Ennis painter Mick O’Dea and Miltown Malbay singer-songwriter, Tim Dennehy, will be in conversation with Peadar King. “When we were thinking about that book, I was particularly conscious that a lot of the narrative that has come through [about Clare] over the last few decades has been written by people involved in the GAA or from parishes. If you look at those particular narratives, …
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