Stone Mad

By Seamus Murphy

Book Overview

While studying modelling at the Crawford School of Art in Cork in the early 1920s, Murphy took the unusual step of apprenticing himself to a master stonecarver. Stone Mad tells the story of his seven... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1903464811
• ISBN13: 9781903464816
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Collins Press
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Old craftmanship in Ireland

My gr grandfather was a stonecutter from Ireland so I was very interested in this. Its all about the characters he met as an apprentice stonecutter in Ireland about 100 years ago. Its about people and how they were before the modern conformist factory system destroyed individuals.