Hughie O’Donoghue on Mayo views, Manchester links, and his Cork exhibition  

The Manc-Irish artist currently has an exhibition at the Glucksman in UCC 

 Hughie O'Donoghue at the Glucksman, UCC, recently for the opening of his exhibition. 

Growing up in Manchester in the 1950s and ‘60s, the artist Hughie O’Donoghue was brought back every summer to his mother Sheila’s home place at the edge of Lough Carrowmore in Erris, Co Mayo.

“It’s wild country,” he says. “Mountains. Lakes. I was deliberately taken there to give me a sense of that landscape, and it’s indelible in my memory. It's a kind of default position, which one reverts to in terms of identity.”