Christmas card 1997

Uncial hand, with dark green border, and candle-illustration in full colour. The title of the piece is Christmas Eve, and the text (in Gaelic) translates to:

With candles of angels the sky is now dappled,
The frost on the wind from the hills has a bite,
Kindle the fire and go to your slumber,
Jesus will lie in this household tonight.


Leave all the doors wide open before her,
The Virgin who’ll come with the child on her breast,
Grant that you’ll stop here tonight, Holy Mary,
That Jesus tonight in this household may rest.

These beautiful verses are by the Irish poet, Máire Mhac an tSaoi.