{"id":439971,"date":"2026-05-09T07:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/439971\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T07:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:16:08","slug":"horrified-artist-in-kerry-creates-sculpture-to-honour-children-who-died-in-strike-on-iranian-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/439971\/","title":{"rendered":"Horrified artist in Kerry creates sculpture to honour children who died in strike on Iranian school"},"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\">\u2018I felt I had to do it to honour the dead and their families,\u2019 the artist said.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Artist Brian Hackett pictured with his 'Minab' sculpture outside his workshop in Ballylongford. Photos by Jack Joy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/04e3bbd2-afe8-4fa8-9fa5-af8d755dba9f.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)\">Artist Brian Hackett pictured with his &#8216;Minab&#8217; sculpture outside his workshop in Ballylongford. Photos by Jack Joy<\/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)\">A north Kerry artist who is horrified by the violence in the Middle East has crafted a sculpture to honour the dozens who died in a missile strike on a primary school in Iran.<\/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)\">Brian Hackett (60), a metalsmith who lives in Ballylongford, created the sculpture to remember the more than 160 people \u2013 mostly children \u2013 who died when Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab was hit as the US and Israeli war on Iran commenced on February 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018I felt I had to do it to honour the dead and their families,\u2019 the artist said. Artist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,3332],"class_list":["post-439971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jack-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439971","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=439971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}