Dermot Donohue (20th/21st Century)
Photograph of the Artist Derek Hill HRHA
Photograph, 24 x 19.5cm
Signed by the photographer Dermot Donohue

Provenance: From the estate of Dorothy...

Dermot Donohue (20th/21st Century)
Photograph of the Artist Derek Hill HRHA
Photograph, 24 x 19.5cm
Signed by the photographer Dermot Donohue

Provenance: From the estate of Dorothy Harrison Therman who wrote the book 'Stories from Tory Island', published October 1989.

Dorothy Therman, an American, first visited Tory in 1981 and became enraptured by the Island, its people and their stories which she started recording from her first trip. They were stories of fairies, superstitions, fishing and great storms that had effected the lives of the Islanders. She made friends with many of the islanders and also became close friends with fellow visitor and part-time resident the artist Derek Hill. She was 71 before her book Stories of Tory was published and Derek Hill wrote the introduction and also allowed one of his paintings be used on the front cover. Her papers and collection of stories are now housed in UCD.

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