SNIPPET: Melanie le BROCQUY was born in Dublin in 1919. Now in her 80s, she postponed her artistic career to rear her family, returning to sculpture in her forties. Most of her work shows the interaction between parent and child or elements of that relationship - a baby's feet, entwined fingers, leaning figures perhaps. The pieces are small, sometimes just inches high, but her ability to capture the essence of a piece is stunning. Her bronze of St. Patrick, Ireland's patron saint who spent his early days as a slave tending sheep on the hillsides of rural Ireland. now stands on a plinth in the aisle of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. The sculpture was a gift to the cathedral, in 2002, from Dr. Edwin OWEN, former Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe, in thanksgiving for fifty years of his ministry. Tradition tells that the saint baptized converts in a well on the site of the cathedral; the present building was founded in the 12th century and later restored by the GUINNESS family in the 19th century. A photo of this beautiful sculpture appeared in the March-April 2003 issue of Dublin's "Ireland of the Welcomes" magazine.