EXCERPT FROM SARA'S JOURNALOctober 27, 1998
Near Ballyferriter
Dingle Peninsula
The Peat Victory keeps us warm while the wind rages.
A few minutes down the road, Louis Mulcahy Pottery is a fancy
mass-production wheelwork studio and shop. Louis has built an empire on the peninsula with
slick outlets in Dingle, Ventry, Ballyferriter and Clogher. It's wheelwork.
It’s functional earthenware with earthy glazes, some gestural drawings and loose,
confident vessels and platters. Dingle is renowned for its dozens of potters.
Each has his or her own style and glazing technique and variety is plentiful.
Louis Mulcahy's specialty is a giant urn, half the height of a person, and sometimes
elaborated with a handle and a spout to make an oversized teapot. They are
sculptural and go beyond the often utilitarian nature of wheelwork.
There are many little shops in Dingle, most of them filled with a
menagerie of Waterford crystal, beenie babies, woolens, objects with shamrocks on them,
antiques, Irish porcelain, linen and handiwork like doilies and crocheted items.
