{"id":3275,"date":"2025-08-16T20:25:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T20:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/3275\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T20:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T20:25:17","slug":"kildare-artist-presents-braveheart-painting-to-hollywood-star-mel-gibson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/3275\/","title":{"rendered":"Kildare artist presents &#8216;Braveheart&#8217; painting to Hollywood star Mel Gibson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curragh based artist, Michael Rowley recently had the honour of presenting Mel Gibson with one of his Braveheart Curragh landscapes in Trim Castle Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood star Gibson was the guest of honour to mark Trim&#8217;s association as a location for the 1994 making of Braveheart with fabulous events organised locally.<\/p>\n<p>In 1994, 1,000 young Reserve members of the Irish Defence Forces all signed up to become part of several scenes filmed in the Curragh plains in Kildare.<\/p>\n<p>The Oscar-winning iconic action film was about Scotland\u2019s struggle for independence.<\/p>\n<p>They camre in their droves from all over Ireland to work long hours as paid extras over the eight weeks of filming and became forever a part of the an Oscar-winning movie.<\/p>\n<p>They received specialst training in sword fighting and handling and how to avoid any accidents on set as the weapons used were real.<\/p>\n<p>Michael&#8217;s solo exhibition, Braveheart the Curragh Landscape&#8217;s continues at Castle Craft, Market Street, Trim until Sunday 17th August.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kildarenow.com\/story-telling\/local-news\/1870505\/gallery-naas-musical-society-open-night-on-august-28-2025.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>READ ALSO: Naas Musical Society Open Night\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Curragh based artist, Michael Rowley recently had the honour of presenting Mel Gibson with one of his Braveheart&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,3626,366,18,117,19,17,3625,1873],"class_list":{"0":"post-3275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-curragh","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-kildare","19":"tag-meath"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275","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=3275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}