Munster In 30 Artworks, No 2: Peregrine Falcons Visit Moyross, by Seán Lynch

The Kerry artist strapped cameras to the back of three birds of prey to film the Limerick housing estate that was featuring in the news for all the wrong reasons 

A still from Peregrine Falcons Visit Moyross, by Seán Lynch.

Seán Lynch’s Peregrine Falcons Visit Moyross could be described as typical of his oeuvre in that it takes an unusual approach to an everyday subject. The three-minute film was shot from the point of view of three falcons as they swooped and dived over Moyross, a suburban council housing estate not half an hour from where the artist now lives, in Askeaton, Co Limerick.

Lynch is a native of Co Kerry who studied at the Stadelschule in Frankfurt, Germany, before completing a Master’s Degree at the University of Limerick. He represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 2015 with a project called Adventure: Capital, which reflected on public art at airports and the representation of Greek river gods on Irish banknotes, among other subjects.