Highlanes Gallery Drogheda Presents:
In the Footsteps of Nano Reid; A Walking Tour with Brendan Matthews
Date:
Saturday 20th August
Time: 1pm
Booking required: €5
Booking Link:
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/in-the-footsteps-of-nano-reid-a-walking-tour-with-brendan-matthews-tickets-339846659507
Explore more about
artist Nano Reid and her life as you traverse some of the streets and lanes and
the most beautiful rural settings of the old Market town of Drogheda,
reflecting on the sights and sounds that inspired much of the artist's greatest
work.
Beginning at Highlanes Gallery the tour will
proceed down Kezer`s Lane, through Bachelors Lane and Mayoralty Street and
across De Lacy Bridge to the South Quay and James's Street area of the town and
where Brendan will relate some fascinating insights pertaining to Nano and her
life Boyneside.
The tour will move up the Dublin Road to the
magnificent rural setting of Sunnyside & the wonderfully-named Errigal; the final home of Nano Reid, prior to her
death in 1981. Here, Brendan will discuss one of Reid's works that she painted
in 1973 which has a special significance to the location.
From Errigal, the tour will
then move across Sunnyside to St. Mary's Cottages and proceed down the 101
steps into the magical Dale Valley, before ending at the bottom of Mary Street
at the Celtic Cross War Memorial.
Tours are €5 and advance booking advised.
⏯Old Drogheda Society - History, Archaeology & Heritage - Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097 - or find us on Facebook.
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