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Hughie O'Donoghue RA (b.1953) The Changing Face of Moo Cow Farm V (2007) mixed media on paper signed lower centre left and dated 2007 h:38  w:57.50 cm. Provenance: Nicholas Gallery, Belfast (label verso); Private Collection Hughie O'Donoghue is best known for epic series of paintings that explore the relationships between people and place, from the hard lives experienced by small farmers in the West of Ireland to the challenges of migration and conflict as individuals become caught up in large historical events. Both come into play here. Moo Cow farm was the colloquial term among Allied (mostly Australian) troops for Mouquet Farm on the Somme. Once a beautiful, pastoral farm, it became a heavily defended German redoubt and was reduced to a cratered, muddy wilderness in the course of the battle in 1916.