Lost Paintings | Cormac O’ Leary at Ballina Arts Centre

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‘Even now there are still places where a thought might grow.‘ – Derek Mahon

I wrote the phrase ‘keep the burning world at bay’ in a notebook during a deep sense of uncertainty at the start of the global pandemic and partly as an answer to my young daughter’s worried question when her school closed – ‘Will it be like this forever?’ I didn’t know, bluffing I told her it would be back to ‘normal’ soon.