"Vowel of Earth Dreaming Its Root"
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"Vowel of Earth Dreaming Its Root"
Image: © Rod Allday Taken: 16 Oct 2010
A 12 metre high sculpture in Kilkenny limestone by Eilis O'Connell http://www.sculpture.org.uk/biography/EilisOConnell/ at the junction of Marsh Wall and Mastmaker Road. The strange title is a quotation from Seamus Heaney's poem 'Kinship' 'This is the vowel of earth Dreaming its root In flowers and snow'
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Image Location
Latitude
51.500515
Longitude
-0.020723