It’s Pat Stack, Ben Stack who had studios at Ballyrogan in the 1980s, who now paints in Sydney, his cousin.

The beer bottles had a home-brewed beer. And it is one moment from any one of hundreds of animated chess and poetry evenings in the three hundred and fifty-year-old kitchen at Ballyrogan House.

Pat sits on the chair in a fantastically creative way. As a ‘Poet Should!’