{"id":394845,"date":"2026-04-12T14:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394845\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T14:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:32:14","slug":"my-first-large-piece-was-exhibited-in-1949-and-it-sold-for-20-guineas-mo-irwins-passion-for-art-endures-as-she-marks-her-100th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394845\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My first large piece was exhibited in 1949 and it sold for 20 guineas\u2019 \u2014 Mo Irwin\u2019s passion for art endures as she marks her 100th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Renowned painter and printmaker talks about her inspirations, incredible career and plans for the future\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mo Irwin in her studio in Connemara. Photo: Ray Ryan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/and printmaker 3139.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Mo Irwin in her studio in Connemara. Photo: Ray Ryan<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Not many artists plan an exhib\u00adition of their work in their 100th year, but then not many people are quite like Mo Irwin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Sitting in her living room overlooking Connemara\u2019s Omey Island, she laughs as she speaks about the celebration of her work in Dublin\u2019s United Arts Club with all the excitement of a recent art school \u00adgraduate. Whipping out a straw hat from behind her chair, she places it at a jaunty angle before our photographer arrives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Renowned painter and printmaker talks about her inspirations, incredible career and plans for the future Mo Irwin in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,615,93,61,60,15120],"class_list":{"0":"post-394845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-dublin","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-trinity-college-dublin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}