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A memoir of an Irish stonecarver's apprenticeship.

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Author:	Seamus Murphy
Paperback:	239 pages
Publisher:	Collins Pr
Publication Date:	October 27, 2005
Language:	English
ISBN:	1903464811
Product Length:	8.48 inches
Product Width:	5.7 inches
Product Height:	0.73 inches
Product Weight:	0.7 pounds
Package Length:	8.35 inches
Package Width:	5.43 inches
Package Height:	0.79 inches
Package Weight:	0.71 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 2 reviews

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Old craftmanship in Ireland Dec 10, 2006 By Rosco Butter "Rosco"
My gr grandfather was a stonecutter from Ireland so I was very interested in this. Its all about the characters he met as an apprentice stonecutter in Ireland about 100 years ago. Its about people and how they were before the modern conformist factory system destroyed individuals.

The story of an Irish stone carver Feb 24, 2011 By Malcolm Schosha
Seamus Murphy trained as a stone carver in the city of Cork (Ireland) in the early part of the 20th century, and went on to become one of Ireland's best known artists. The book describes his training as a stone carver in as series of stories, and some of the stories he tells are so amusing they might have have come from a James Stephens novel. Interestingly, little of the book is narrated in the first person, but told mostly as accounts of the men he worked with in the stoneyard where he was apprenticed as a fourteen year old boy, and continuing up to the time the stoneyard closed. The book gives a view into a world of artisan stone carvers which is now gone, and most of the work of stone cutters and stone carvers has now been replaced by cast cement.