About the Artist:

Born in Dublin in 1943, he studied architecture and worked as an engineering draughtsman, a musician and a postman before taking up painting in 1967. He represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale in 1969, and at graphic exhibitions in Florence, Ljubljana and Tokyo. His paintings are held in collections including the National Gallery of Ireland, the Ulster Museum, the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, and the Albrecht Dürer House, Nuremberg. Major survery exhibitions of his work have taken place in Lund, Warsaw, Sofia and Dublin. Due to the difficuley of earning a living in Ireland through painting alone, early in his career, Ballagh began to widen his range of work. As a graphic designer he has produced over 70 stamps for An Post, the final series of Irish banknotes before the introduction of the euro, and numerous murals, posters, limited prints and book covers. His notable work in the theatre includes set design for I'll Go On, Gate Theatre (1985); the Riverdance company; Samuel Beckett's Endgame, Gate Theatre (1991); Steven Berkoff's production of Oscar Wilde's Salomé, Gate Theatre, Dublin (1998)and the staging for the opening ceremony of the Special Olympics in Croke Park, Dublin (2003). He exhibited a series of imaginary landscapes at the Irish Arts Centre in New York (2002). For 10 years, he chaired the Irish National Congress, a non-party organisation working for peace in Northern Ireland, and he is currently president of the Ireland Institute, a centre for historical and cultural studies. He served as the first chairman of the Artists' Association of Ireland when it was founded in 1981, and he is a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. He married Elizabeth Carabini in 1967 and they have two children, Rachel and Bruce and they continue to live in Dublin's inner city.

This is a rare opportunity to obtain a top quality limited edition print by Robert Ballagh.

It has been relaunched in order to commemorate the 10 men who died on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh in 1981 and the Legacy that flows from that struggle.

The struggle continues today.

Insert includes letter from Gerry Adams.

Featuring: Christy Moore, Donal Lunny, Stephen Rea, Declan Sinnott, Francie Brolly, Noel Hill, Dan Dowd, Mick Hanly, Tony Linane , Matt Molloy and Brian Ua Baoill.

Tarcklist- 1. Rights of man, 2. Guest of the Queen, 3. On the Blanket 4. H-Block Song 5. Repeal the Union 6. Bright Star 7. Taimse I mo Chodladh 8. 90 miles from Dublin 9. A retort 10. Lucy Campbell/ Patsy Tuohy

The first seventeen days of Bobby Sands' H-Block hungerstrike to the death, written by him in diary form, with an introduction by Danny Morrison.