Along the Atlantic seaboard, on the west coast of Ireland, there are 12 mountains that are steeped in myth and which have inspired writers and poets for centuries.
At the heart of the “Twelve Bens” in Connemara, County Galway, nestle marble quarries that mine the unique green stone known as Connemara marble. Continue reading
There are only about 5 million people in the whole of Ireland – 3.5 million in the Republic and the rest in the North – which is why Kevin Joyce was looking beyond the home market when he decided to start working the family quarry in the famous marble – producing area on the west coast of Ireland, Connemara. Continue reading
Our space and time are not real, tangible entities.
It is we who give life and meaning to their tyrannical dimensions, confirming and adapting them to our pleasure. From this point of view, the cognition of time, interpreted as a realisation that it never stands
still, is indispensable because it conditions our awareness of objects, their uses and their physical reality.
This cognition or total awareness of an “existential substance” manifests itself inside of us, when
an object is ‘digested’ within us. Along with its shape, function and the material it is made of. Continue reading
