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10 Annual Report 2023
CARING I am one of three daughters and have three
children. My eldest, Evin, is studying medicine,
and I am still shocked he achieved that amidst
Kiln View’s
all our housing problems. His two siblings are
in secondary school and are just great kids
resident
considering the traumas we have had over the
last few years. In some ways, it has made us all
Deborah Donnelly shares her
stronger, and they have grown up quicker.
After completing my art degree at NCAD, I saved
up for a ticket to the capital of the art world, New
housing story.
York. There, I worked in a huge gallery as a ghost
painter. We painted another artist’s paintings
for him, and I got the most amazing experience
of how the art world works. I won a green card
I’m an artist, like my mother was before me.
Some of my earliest and fondest memories are of
playing in Merrion Square with my sisters while
my mother exhibited her art on the railings there.
I learned the trade from her. She was also a single
parent, and as a child, we took in students, and
the house was always full – it still is today.
in the visa lottery, and everything was going
from strength to strength. Then, September 11th
happened, and I just wanted to come home – I
thought it was the end of the world.
I came home, and that is when I found out I was
pregnant with my son. It was definitely a struggle
PHOTOGRAPHER: JENNY BARKER