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Blarney has welcomed many visitors over the years.
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Some have left a record of their visit for posterity, usually in words, but sometimes in visual media; a drawing, a print, watercolour or oil painting. Usually, the subject chosen was the romantic ruins of the castle and its surrounds, more rare were the people that the artists encountered during their visit.
When one of the greatest artists of his age painted a large oil painting of a celebration of the locals, little did they think that it would become a celebrated masterpiece almost two centuries later.
The Painter
The artist was Daniel Maclise, born in Cork in 1806, who earned his fame in London as a portrait painter of eminent Victorians, but even more as the pre-eminent history painter of his age, who was especially selected to decorate the new Houses of Parliament with two giant murals depicting the nation’s greatest military victories; the Death of Nelson at Trafalgar and the