3 Dec 2025 Rock Art by Finola Finlay

Now retired, Finola Finlay lives in West Cork and writes and edits the popular arts and
culture blog, Roaringwater Journal which she began in 2012 with her husband
Robert Harris who sadly died in 2024. The Journal has been continuously published every week
since then on a wide variety of topics (mostly focussed on West Cork) including
landscape and the natural world, archaeology and history, music, language and
literature, architecture, food, art and culture and local events.

Finola holds a BA (history and archaeology) and MA (archaeology) from the
National University of Ireland. She has conducted post-graduate research at
University College Cork on prehistoric rock art and at Simon Fraser University (BC,
Canada) on the BC fur trade.

Finola retired in 2010 as the Associate Director of the British Columbia Council on
Admissions and Transfer.