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A mixed media art exhibition will give visual expression to themes inspired by O\u2019Brien\u2019s writing. The exhibition will combine work engendered by the project research with work by the artists involved. Born in Strabane, he spent much of his childhood and youth, with his brothers, bicycling around Strabane and Lifford and further into Donegal. He spent time in the Donegal Gaeltacht. Later he returned to the north west for holidays. The project artists believe his early experience influenced his later writing and the research will seek to uncover new influences in his work. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>The project research and resulting exhibition will stimulate awareness of the importance of the writer and redress the focus of the origins of influences on some of his most important works. Project research will enable the exhibition of work by three internationally acclaimed artists in their own Donegal community. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":11233,"template":"","class_list":["post-11232","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u201cFlann O\u2019Brien and Donegal\u201d Edward O&#039;Kane - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Flann O\u2019Brien is an internationally recognised writer and is recognised as one of Ireland\u2019s most important writers alongside Joyce and Beckett, but his importance is often overlooked in his own homeplace.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/flann-obrien-and-donegal-edward-okane\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cFlann O\u2019Brien and Donegal\u201d Edward O&#039;Kane - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Flann O\u2019Brien is an internationally recognised writer and is recognised as one of Ireland\u2019s most important writers alongside Joyce and Beckett, but his importance is often overlooked in his own homeplace. 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