Born on the Dingle Peninsular, Michael Flaherty studied in Cork at UCC and at the Crawford School of Art. He has exhibited widely throughout Ireland, particularly with the Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, the Kenny Gallery, Galway, the Cork Arts Society and the Sligo Art Gallery. His work hangs in many major collections in Ireland and the USA.

1950 Michael Flaherty was born on the Dingle Peninsula, Co.Kerry
1969-1973 B.A. Degree U.C.C. and H Dip Ed. National University, Maynooth.
1973-1977 Municipal Art College, Cork. & Sligo R.T.C.

Solo Exhibitions
Kilcock Art Gallery 1992 - 2008 Sligo Art Gallery
Arches Gallery-Edinburgh Ginnel Gallery - Manchester
Peacock Theatre - Dublin Cork Arts Society
Hendricks Gallery - Dublin Sligo Arts Festival
Heritage Centre - Derry Siamsa - Tralee
Mount Street Gallery - Dublin Kenny's Gallery - Galway
Listowel Writers Week Wellspring Gallery - Tralee
Greenlane Gallery - Dingle Grant Fine Art - Co. Down
New York University Cork Art Society
Guinness Hop Store - Dublin Vanguard Gallery - Macroom
Lavit Gallery - Cork Blue Raincoats Theatre, Sligo
Dalkey Castle
Brendan Kennelly Summer School, Ballylongford

Collections
A.I.B. Group Dublin City University
Irish Life Insurance Arthur Anderson & Co
Ulster Investment Bank I.B.E.C.
Department of an Tanaiste A.I.B., New York
Electricity Supply Board Merrill Lynch Corporate Finance
Glanbia plc Vincent Ferguson Collection
Lee Strand, Tralee National Treasury Management Agency
Government Offices DAIWA Bank Plc, New York
O.P.W.
National Portrait Collection, University of Limerick Commerz Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
New York University, Washington Square, N.Y. Irish Intercontinental Bank, Dublin
Irish Management Institute. United Drug plc.
Dock Holdings Ltd. Brian Burns Collection, U.S.A.
Guinness Peat Aviation ABN Amro.
St. Lukes Hospital. Irish Permanent plc.
Colourtech Computing Ltd. Kerry Foods plc.
Central Bank of Ireland, Dublin Bausch & Lomb, Waterford
International Company Services (Irl.) Ltd Shannon Development
Mrs. Jean Kennedy Smyth, Former US Ambassador to Ireland.

Sources:
Whyte's Auction
Kilcock Art Gallery

Following are reviews of Michael Flaherty gallery exhibitions from several galleries in Ireland: Kilcock, Green and Dingle. The source is: http://www.michaelflaherty.net/review.html

"Michael Flaherty is best known for his landscapes, spontaneous, lyrical compositions that bring to mind aspects of the work of artists as diverse as Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Henry and Sean Mc Sweeney. He is uninhibited in use of paint, that is of the physical stuff, the pigment itself, which he has on occasion worked in layers of imposingly thick impasto, and of course in his use of paint as colour."- "Flaherty's work clearly doesn't set out merely to record a scene in terms of its appearance, it enacts the excitement of the sexual experience of an environment and, equally, excitement of painting."?? Aidan Dunne - Irish Times Art Critic. Kilcock Art Gallery, 2000

"This is a remarkable exhibition. Incredibly fresh, incredibly instant. He captures very quickly , scenes which he's very, very familiar with. He's been seeping up this landscape for quite some time, but when he parks the canvas by the side of the road, or the middle of the field, or wherever, zoom, he's in there and out in jig time. Remarkably few mistakes, but he captures that instant to perfection...?Remarkably assured technique...Bright pictures, just celebrating his local landscape...Then there are darker ones, like the cliffs at Dunquin, deep black, bits of navy deep sea, then this forbidding cliff face. This is the power of nature: you don't mess with that?. The painting of the wave is dark, frightening. Nolde did famous wave many years ago, but this guy is doing his own thing. He owes nothing to nobody, but he's a very self-assured painter, whether it's these bright, happy scenes which sucks us in to enjoy the sunshine, enjoy the landscape, he has us under control. Remarkable pictures"??RTE Aug 1999 - Review by John Hunt

"Michael effectively conveys a sense of panoramic space by simplifying his subjects rather than getting bogged down by fussy details. Elemental shapes saturated with intensive colour- red, blues, greens, lilacs and pinks, earthen colours vary according to the changing conditions, communicating to us not only the artist's perceptions but also his powerful feelings for his native Dingle penninsula. ??Green Lane Gallery.