Inspired by the knees of a dying man

John Donne provided the spark for Isabel Nolan’s exhibition in Bandon, writes Alan O’Riordan

JOHN DONNE may have been a renowned preacher in his day, and the author of some of the most powerful religious verse in the English language, but, as the phrase goes, he also lived a little. And, he did not deny posterity a poetic account of his bawdier side:

“Licence my roving hands, and let them go