This collection of jewellery has been inspired by the ancient Irish legend of King

Lir’s (Lear) four children – Fionnuala, (Fin nula) Fiacra, (Fee cra) Conn (Con)

and Aed (Aid). Who were turned into four magical swans by their jealous

stepmother, Queen Aoife (Eve fa) They were condemned to spend an isolated

life of 300 year on Lake Deravarragh, 300 years on the Sea of Moyle and 300

years on Inis Glora. Only when a Christian bell was heard across the land would

the spell break. Although they were swans they still retained the human voices.

Fionnuala cheered her young brothers by singing to them. At the end of the

nine hundred years the bell of St.Kemoch rang out and the children found they

had become frail old people with death close at hand. They asked St. Kemoch

to baptise them and when they died, to bury them where they had sheltered

during their years of hardship – Aed the youngest resting at the bosom of

Fionnuala with the twins Fiacra and Conn at either side within her embrace.