This title includes 51 photographs of domestic, agricultural and industrial paintwork, from County Wexford to County Donegal.

Attempts to decorate steel, concrete and stone with paintwork rarely last, but produce curious anachronisms for a time.

This book journeys through the hardy, patchworked, yet dishevelled nature of the Irish countryside, from home in Leitrim to friends in Wexford, Roscommon and Mayo, via the boreens of Tipperary.

Helen O’Leary and Paul Chidester have made these journeys, pointing their cameras at such edifices, giving much pleasure in their discovery.