Woman’s journal catalogues wealth of Celtic Tiger craft

FROM a Gaelic chieftain surveying the Boyle bypass to the giant, rearing horse overseeing the roadway from Tralee to Cork city, Ann Lane has spent four years and travelled over 14,000 miles on an odyssey to catalogue the country’s main pieces of public art.

Having finished her work earlier this year, Ms Lane’s photographic journal will be published in the autumn as a major art book.

The 64-year-old, originally from Co Cork, said it was her initial encounter with Capall Mór, the ferro-cement over a steel structure, near Tralee, that depicts a Celtic war horse with broken chains around its forelegs, signifying freedom, which inspired her to undertake the task of cataloguing the works.