A Question of Taste with Martin Gale

Martin Gale’s latest exhibition runs at the Lavit Gallery, in Cork, until November 11. The Kildare-based artist is a member of Aosdana and of the Royal Hibernian Academy.

Best recent book you’ve read:

In Parenthesis, by David Jones. Jones was born in Kent. In 1915, then an art student, he went to war with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, where he fought in the battles of the Somme and Ypres. The book is a prose/poem relating his experiences in WW1 from December, 1915 to July, 1916, when he was wounded during the assault on Mametz Wood — one of the most disastrous actions in the battle of the Somme.