Darragh Greally was born on the 25th of November 1969 in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the USA. His family brought him back to their homeland of Ireland before he was 1 year old and there he lived mainly in the west in a beautiful town by the sea called Galway until his untimely death in 2002. He was 32.

Darragh’s work is instantly recognisable to friends and fans. He worked almost exclusively in a black magic marker or fine tipped rotary pen, both of which were always either in the front pocket of his jeans or top shirt pocket. Ironically it would make him look like a slighty confused businessman echoing the image of one of his most infamous character drawings “Mr. Normal”.

In 1991 Darragh and a group of like-minded individuals opened the first dance music club in a dingy bar in Galway called “Wiped”. In the weeks leading up to the first night Darragh painstakingly hand drew and coloured in hundreds of smiling suns and stuck them up all over the town of Galway. Each one was unique and as soon as he put them up they would disappear either by annoyed shop owners or eager dance music fans. This gueriila style advertising continued throughout the following years as he moved on from “Wiped” to Club Ioas , Flux, Bizcurus and most notoriously Bransky’s of which the artwork seen here are examples.

Darragh not only did the art work for the posters but also decorated the clubs’ interiors, transforming the grotty venues into fluoro nirvanas. The very first club was an explosion of the smiling suns that people had seen all over the town. The next week it would be lips then flowers with faces then eyes. Every Friday night . clubbers still dancing to an imaginary beat would spill out from the sweaty club with large colourful eyes stuck to their foreheads, their backs or just completely covered in “Eyes”, no tidying up needed as all the club decor went home with the happy clubbers to be put on their walls to remind them of a fantastical place away from the drudgery of day to day.

Darragh’s two daughters Ella and Caoimhe live happily in Galway.