Brendan Crowe has been cutting, carving and shaping stone since he was “the nipper” at the age of fourteen. Based on Thomas St. since the late seventies, his trade has been the production of headstones and graveyard sculptures. Filmed just weeks before his retirement, he looks back without regret on a life of hard work which was altered ultimately by globalisation and our modern obsession with the immediate and the disposable. He cautions us, with great prescience, not to get wrapped up in “that Celtic Tiger-ish world which can sort of come and go” but rather to put our energies into something a little bit more permanent.

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Official Selection, Kerry Film Festival 2009.