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Oil on canvas, 35 x 52cm (13¾ x 20½”)

Signed and dated 1901

Provenance: From the collection of the late Charlie Hennessy

Joseph Poole Addey was born in Dublin in 1852, although he is always regarded as a Cork painter. He received his early training at the Royal

Dublin Society Schools and later at the Cork School of Art. As an artist he must have advanced amongst his peers because at just 23 he was

appointed as the first Headmaster of the Londonderry School of Art in 1875. Following the death of his mother, who had been living in Cork,

Addey returned to the city in 1895 to spend the remainder of his life painting the environs and people of the Courts from his home on Victoria

Road.

The work depicted above is painted from Monkstown looking towards a schooner at the Deepwater Anchorage at Ringaskiddy, home to a cur-

rent ferry terminal and commercial port. In the middle ground is the Cork ferry, which travelled from Cork to Passage West, Monkstown Cobh,

and on to Crosshaven. Referred to as ‘The Green Boats’, this ferry continued up until the early 20th century when eventually it was overtaken

by the railway.

€2,000 - 4,000