Together Just Us

Original oil and acrylic on canvas by Andrew Gault

40x30cm unframed

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There is a piece of carved Kilkenny limestone which lies flat on the grass near the village of Mesen. The words carved on it are;

“So the curtain fell, over that tortured country of unmarked graves and unburied fragments of men: Murder and massacre: The innocent slaughtered for the guilty: The poor man for the sake of the rich: The man of no authority made the victim of the man who had gathered importance and wished to keep it.”

Although written over 100 years ago by an Irishman who died in Flanders, those words are still too loud.