Liam O'Neill

Biography

Liam O'Neill was born in Corca Dhuibhne, in West Kerry in 1954 and is among Ireland’s most celebrated contemporary artists. He paints using a palette knife to capture the iconic imagery of his own place - It’s wind beaten harbours, coastal fishermen, farmers and musicians are among his subject matter.
Liam O’Neill enjoys painting the colour and movement of horse racing events and fairs.
He also pays particular attention to portraiture; capturing the essence of literary figures such as James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. Almost sculpturally he carves their characteristic features and reveals the human and emotional essence behind what are well recognised public faces. O’Neill is interested in the nature of portraits and how a famous face can become broadly familiar and simultaneously depersonalized in the public eye. Through the process of looking and realizing these faces with paint, O’Neill reintroduces the humanity in these significant people.
Liam O’Neill has gone back home to live in West Kerry again after thirty years in Dublin.
When he paints scenes of Kerry his own relationship with the landscape appears time and time again. His direct connection with his home place provides him with endless reasoning to paint his surroundings.
O’Neill says of his home place “I paint that which makes this area unique, the special views: Brandon, The Blaskets, and The Three Sisters, they are the backbone of the place from which it takes its structure. They are powerful symbols. Then there are the fields, the walls, the people and the animals.”
Liam O’Neill has exhibited widely over the past thirty years including Dublin, London, Paris, East and West Coast US.
Liam O'Neill is amongst Ireland's most talented contemporary artists. He is a self-taught painter, who, over the last twenty years, has shown work at The Royal Hibernian Academy, The Oireachtas, The National Portrait Exhibition and The Claremorris Open. His paintings are collected nationally and internationally.
Over the course of his career, Liam O'Neill has developed a reputation as one of the finest portrayers of rural life and his painterly interest in the lives and environs of West Kerry has become his hallmark.

"overwhelmingly powerful images of landscapes and people..."

- Armita Wallace, The Irish Times

"Portraiture that leaves its subject "immortalised on canvas."

- Bruce Arnold, The Irish Independent

 
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Turfcutting Cruach
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Coca Feir
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An Fomhar
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Meitheal sa Phortach
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An Fiach 's a Mháthair
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Seo Ardaigh I
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Gliomaigh le Gealaigh
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Fé bhun Bhinn Dhiarmada
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Com Dhíneol Amach
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iCistin Bhéicir
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Cathedral Rocks, Inis na mBro
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Amach Linn Dúinín

Previously Sold

 

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A Day in the Bog SOLD
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A Field of Oats SOLD
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Ag Cnochairt SOLD
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Ag Fagaint Cuas SOLD
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An Bóthar Siar SOLD
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An Bromach SOLD
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Ar an Slean Com a'Lochaigh SOLD
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Arbhar an Fhómhair SOLD
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Around Brandon Head SOLD
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Barley by the Sleeping Giant SOLD
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Béal Bán Races SOLD
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Bóithrín na Smaointe SOLD
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Bringing Her Up SOLD
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Bringing Home the Turf SOLD
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Bringing Up the Naomhóg, Clogher SOLD
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Clothar Amach SOLD
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Cogar SOLD
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Coirce SOLD
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Coming Home, Great Blasket SOLD
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Cornfield SOLD
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Dingle Races SOLD
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Eorna an Chnoic SOLD
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Faobhar SOLD
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Going to the Creamery SOLD
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Harvesting the Hill Field SOLD
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Hauling the Lobster Pots Ballydavid SOLD
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Haymaking SOLD
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Haymaking SOLD
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Haymaking by the Sleeping Giant SOLD
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Haymaking Day SOLD
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Heading Home SOLD
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Heading into Cuas SOLD
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Heading Out SOLD
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Killarney Races under Mangerton SOLD
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Lá na Scolb SOLD
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Lobstermen at Cuas SOLD
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Mackerel Fishing Dooneen SOLD
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Mackerel Men SOLD
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Mackerelmen, Duinin SOLD
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Maidin Bhreá, Cuas SOLD
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Móin Cam a' Lochaigh SOLD
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Mountain Turf SOLD
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Ná hAbair SOLD
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Ráil Mhóna SOLD
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Riding the Wave SOLD
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Rowing to the Sleeping Giant SOLD
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Running Free, West Kerry SOLD
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Saving the Hay before the Rain SOLD
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Scytheman by the Sleeping Giant SOLD
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Sheridan's Horses SOLD
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Síoladóir SOLD
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Stacking the Turf SOLD
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Suas Bóithrín an Chnoic SOLD
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The Reaper SOLD
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The Road Home SOLD
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Three Men Launching the Currach SOLD
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Tóg Bog é SOLD
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Triúr sa Naomhóg Baile na nGall SOLD
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Turf Cutters SOLD
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Turf Cutting at Midday SOLD
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Turfcutting by Mount Brandon SOLD
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Yellow Colt SOLD