I don't know if you spotted Martin's comment on the 'painters' entry (which he posted on my 'hens' entry) when he told me that he thought that the 'Jack' of the three artists was probably Jack O'Hare.

Martin was right and, in a separate email, went on to tell me that Jack O'Hare lived in an unusual house, just down the road from where he and Sile used to live in Kilmacleague, Co. Waterford where we used to visit regularly, which we passed - and passed comment on - on many a walk.

I trust Jack will forgive me if his eye should ever fall upon this entry, when I tell you that we we all knew his house as 'the train crash'.
This because, my memory informs me, the roof was at an unusual - I would say awkward - angle with a row of windows beneath, that looked to us like a railway carriage - at that equally awkward and unusual angle that may occur following a railway calamity.

And, in my reply to Martin, I also told him: 'Yes, you are quite correct: Jack is Jack O'Hare and it was quite plain, from the timbre of Danny (Brennan's) voice, when he introduced the two of them to me on their first visit, that a proper person would immediately have recognised that, in Jack O'Hare, one was privileged to be in the presence of a man of status and accomplishment!'

Jack was evidently an architect of considerable accomplishment and worked with one of the profession's colossuses of the age, Frank Lloyd Wright.
So I must make a visit back to Kilmacleague to see if I should reassess my view of his house.

And, finally, it is interesting (to me) to note that Jack's son, Sean, does as I do and designs and makes furniture.

I do hope Jack's and my paths cross again.