{"id":120866,"date":"2025-10-14T06:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/120866\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T06:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:48:10","slug":"beloved-wicklow-artist-33-to-emigrate-to-australia-i-look-at-ireland-as-never-never-land-now-we-just-cant-grow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/120866\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved Wicklow artist (33) to emigrate to Australia \u2013 \u2018I look at Ireland as Never-Never Land now. We just can&#8217;t grow up\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Artist immortalised by Katie Taylor and Carlisle Grounds murals, is to close his shop and make a new life Down Under\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Artist Adam J Connors with some of his work, outside his studio in Bray.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/62a3c96d-f682-4518-bdfc-5a3d01ea8683.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Artist Adam J Connors with some of his work, outside his studio in Bray.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Before the month of October is out, Bray, Co Wicklow will have a \u2018To Let\u2019 sign in the window of yet another retail unit on one of its busiest streets, while the town will have lost one of its most well-loved and prolific creative souls to emigration. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For artist Adam J Connors, normally so adept at using his hands, he struggles to paint a positive picture of what the last few years of life have been like, ever since he chose to return home from what must seem now like the idyllic town of Porto in Portugal, some five years ago. Within a matter of weeks he will be in Sydney, Australia, where he has a job and a visa and the chance to set up his easel in sunnier climes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artist immortalised by Katie Taylor and Carlisle Grounds murals, is to close his shop and make a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,9273],"class_list":{"0":"post-120866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-tom-galvin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}