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Philip McDonald is a native of New York who has lived his adult life in Germany, Colorado, and Pennsylvania. The opportunity to travel extensively throughout the United States and Europe created an early interest in photography. He soon captured his environment with the eye of an artist. He also began to write poetry and has put together several copyrighted collections of poems. In 2003, inspired by the Irish Brigade monument at the Gettysburg Battlefield, he composed the poem "The Irish Brigade" and merged his two avocations of poetry and photography. In 2004, while traveling in Ireland, he found beautiful photographic images to match several poems he had previously written. One of these, "The Hounds of Tara," is being used by the Potomac Valley Irish Wolfhound Club to raise funds to assist in Irish Wolfhound rescue efforts. |
For those interested in what gallowglass means, gallowglass is an Anglicization of the Irish Gallglaigh meaning "foreign soldier." The gallowglass were mercenary warriors that came from the Hebrides and Scottish Highlands. The gallowglass were revered as warriors, sought after and employed by Irish lords from the mid thirteenth century through the sixteenth century. One of the predominant surnames associated with gallowglass' clans is McDonald. As part of Clan Donald, their lineage can be traced to Colla Uasis, High King of Ireland. So with this sense of history and tradition, I decided to name my company "Gallowglass Prints." |
