{"product_id":"the-long-middle","title":"The Long Middle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLoop Head to Achill — Book Two of The Painter's Road\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBack on the road after a fortnight at home, Dublin painter Jason O'Brien picks up where Book One left off — at Loop Head, where a squall breaks over the sea arch at George's Head just as he arrives to paint it. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Long Middle\u003c\/strong\u003e carries him and The Curragh through the horseshoe bay at Kilkee (Pollock Holes, pier jump, and a pint at the Greyhound Bar included), out to the Cliffs of Moher and Dun Aonghasa, through Connemara's currach-lined slipways and Kylemore's mirrored lake, up the fjord at Killary, and out to Achill's Keem Bay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the middle stretch of the Wild Atlantic Way — the long green heart of the route, five more Signature Discovery Points found and painted, a bog memorial to Alcock and Brown, a deserted famine village on Slievemore, and the quiet accumulation of a journey that no longer feels like an experiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrated throughout with the author's own paintings — twenty-one full-colour plates in oil, gouache and watercolour — The Long Middle is both travel memoir and sketchbook, written for anyone who has ever wanted to disappear into the west of Ireland for a while and come back slightly more themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy F Cosgrove. Available as a full-colour 8.5″×11″ paperback on Amazon. 126 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wild Beauty","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57749886140747,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0981\/4330\/6059\/files\/Book2_Cover_FCosgrove.jpg?v=1783004133","url":"https:\/\/www.wildbeauty.store\/products\/the-long-middle","provider":"Wild Beauty","version":"1.0","type":"link"}