News 5. 3. 2013

“Riverdance’s” Michael Flatley launches career as an artist with Famine painting

Michael Flatley has been expressing his artistic talents in a different way since 2011 when he sold his first painting for €5,600. To create this painting, he applied paint to the soles of his shoes and tap-danced the Al-Capone solo from his show ‘Celtic Tiger’ and expressed a wish to do other paintings in this way.
The Irish Times reports that the Taoiseach was “delighted” to accept Mr. Flatley’s painting “on behalf of the State and in recognition of the year of the Gathering in Ireland” believing the painting to be “very striking indeed” with a subject matter that is “something Irish people all over the world hold close to their hearts”. The Taoiseach also wished Flatley “every success in his new chosen path”.

AMANDA DRISCOLL,
IrishCentral Intern

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