Holly and the Lucky Tree
Written by Barry Kavanagh & Illustrated by Mary Smyth.
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Bad Luck has descended on Darling Tea, as people forget the old ways treating their environment badly.
The Lucky Tree chooses Holly to be their voice..
Can she restore the Luck to the village?
Launched February 2025. Copies available to purchase. Readers 8 - 10 year olds.
Holly looking up at the tree's branches
Granny Mae's cottage
Holly worried looking at the Lucky Tree
Hairy Lemon and his horse
Muck Fairy
Above: Photo snippets from the book.
Below: Water Fairy Guardian, fishing rubbish from the river with her snail companion.
Brí Leith - The Entrance to Midir's Sidhe Kingdom
Above Website Artwork
Created for the website Brí Leith Café, this is a digital illustration depicting the entrance to the fairy/sidhe world that is said to be at the foot of Brí Leith Hill in Ardagh, Co. Longford. The cranes represent Midhir, the Sidhe King and the Dragonfly in the stain-glass window above the door represents the love of his life, Etáin, who is transformed into this creature in the local legend. This piece was drawn, scanned in and digitally coloured with magic in Photoshop.
Event Poster
Promotional animation for Longford Tourism 'Midir and Etáin (2018)'
Above: 'Animation Background Entry to the Brí Leith Kingdom'
Below: Screenshot from animation and asset Midir's Throne from same animation
Above: 'Animation Background Entry to the Brí Leith Kingdom'
Below: Screenshot from animation and asset Midir's Throne from same animation
Publications L-R: Cover & book illustrations for Simple Parenting Skills in Minutes,
self-published comic on local Irish myth in the Irish Language (2011), company advert.
self-published comic on local Irish myth in the Irish Language (2011), company advert.
Book Illustrations for 'Simple Parenting' by Gráinne Brady
2012 Irish Comic Book Published Illustrated Mary Smyth
