In the shadow of Long Kesh watch-towers, a blanketman draped in an Irish Tricolour is held in the arms of his father, with mother looking on, reminiscent of Michelangelo’s pietà (“pity”) in which Mary holds the body of her dead son after he has been taken down from the cross (and so it also echoes Oliver Sheppard’s statue of Cúchulaınn).
Painted by Con at the top of Donegall Road, west Belfast.
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Copyright © 1981 Paddy Duffy
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Paddy Duffy Collection 