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'A delightful and classically simple book' William Trevor 'A book of surpassing passing, full of warmth, humour and profound perception' Southern Star 'Devotees of craft traditions will delight in the detailed accounts of stone carving technique' Irish Arts Review

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SEAMUS MURPHY was born in Mallow, Co. Cork, in 1907. On leaving school at fourteen he was apprenticed as a stonecarver. At the same time he attended art school by night. Then a scholarship allowed him study in Paris for two years. On returning to Cork he opened his own studio. He exhibited at the RHA every year from 1931 to his death in 1975, and became Professor of Sculpture at the RHA in 1964. His work, which can be seen all over Ireland, and in England and America, includes allegorical figure, madonnas, headstones, memorials and portrait busts.

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