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ERIC HANSON: IRISH SPIRITS

October 24, 2011

Eric Hanson’s on-going challenge for the whip-smart wwword.com is to illustrate the untranslatable. This time around, the topic is the Irish penchant for the no longer living but never really dead; the unalive but ever-present: "Neamhbeo."

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“There is a lot of the ineffable about these untranslatable expressions, which makes the drawing more fun,” Says Eric. “Allusiveness works better than concrete detail when describing the ineffable, the intangible, the spiritual…”  

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