+++++ What Thomas Kinkade said about this work +++++ "To me, Ireland means tradition and stability-charming customs, love of family, a faith as enduring as the austere, ruggedly beautiful landscape itself. The Ireland I've portrayed in Emerald Isle Cottage is a land rooted in the earth, but touched by a heavenly light. The humble cottages, thatched and weathered over centuries, seem anchored in the ground. They belong to the land. Yet the atmosphere is charged with radiance; golden shafts from the hidden sun dance on the distant lake." (Thomas Kinkade's heritage is Irish and German) ~~Thomas Kinkade