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22 DERMOT DONOHUE HRHA (20TH/21ST CENTURY)Photograph of the Artist Derek Hill HRHA
Photograph, 24 x 19.5cm
Signed by the photographer Dermot Donohue
Provenance: From the estate of Dorothy Harrison Therman who wrote the book ‘Stories from
Tory Island’, published October 1989.
Dorothy Therman, an American, first visited Tory in 1981 and became enraptured by the
Island, its people and their stories which she started recording from her first trip. They were
stories of fairies, superstitions, fishing and great storms that had effected the lives of the
Islanders. She made friends with many of the islanders and also became close friends with
fellow visitor and part-time resident the artist Derek Hill. She was 71 before her book “Stories
of Tory” was published and Derek Hill wrote the introduction and also allowed one of his paint-
ings be used on the front cover. Her papers and collection of stories are now housed in UCD.
€ 20 - 30