Reid, Eileen Florence Beatrice (née Oulton)
Reid, Eileen Florence Beatrice (née Oulton) (1894–1981), painter and musician, was born at 19 Upper Mount Street, Dublin, the only daughter and one of two children of George Nugent Oulton , a Dublin barrister. Her birthplace remained her home throughout her life. Educated at the…...
Reid, Nano
Reid, Nano (1900–81), painter, was born Anne Margaret Reid on 1 March 1900 in Drogheda, Co. Louth, eldest among four children of Thomas Reid, publican, and Anne Reid (née Downey). The family lived above their pub on the corner of Peter St. and Fair St., and enjoyed a prosperous…...
Rhind, Ethel
Rhind, Ethel (1877–1952), mosaic and stained-glass artist, was born 1 December 1877 in Arrah, Bihar, India, daughter of Robert Hunter Rhind, an Edinburgh-born civil engineer in the Indian civil service, and Hannah Rhind (née Tate), a native of Whiteabbey, Co. Antrim, and a relative…...
Rice, Noreen
Rice, Noreen (1936–2015), artist, was born in east Belfast on 19 February 1936, the second of two children of Johnny Rice, a master mason, and his wife Nell (née Hayes). During the second world war her father joined the British army and her mother took work in a munitions factory,…...
Rivers, Elizabeth Joyce
Rivers, Elizabeth Joyce (1903–64), artist, was born 5 August 1903 in the family home, Bonks Hill House in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England, the daughter of Thomas Alfred Rivers, nurseryman, and his wife Mabel (née Hall). Her family had run a renowned nursery plant operation from…...
Robertson, Clementina
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Robertson, Olivia Melian
Robertson, Olivia Melian (1917–2013), writer, artist and co-founder of the Fellowship of Isis, was born on 13 April 1917 at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, to Manning Durdin Robertson (qv), urban planner and architect, and…...
Robinson, Anne Marjorie
Robinson, Anne Marjorie (1858–1924), miniature portrait painter, was born 15 August 1858 in Belfast. She showed a considerable talent in art from an early age and expressed herself by decorating her exercise books at school. Through the influence of…...
Robinson, Dolly
Robinson, Dolly (1901–77), artist and theatre designer, was born Dorothy Travers Smith on 26 October 1901 in Dublin, daughter of Richard Travers Smith, MD, FRCPI, of 20…...
Robinson, Mina
Robinson, Mina (fl. 1893–1910), founder of the Irish Decorative Art Association, was probably born in Belfast; nothing is known of her early life. In the early 1890s she began holding art classes from her home in Cliftonville in that city and then, from 1894, from her…...
Ross, Florence Agnes
Ross, Florence Agnes (1870–1949), artist, was born 6 December 1870 in Ulster, youngest of the three children of the Rev. William Steward Ross and Agnes Ross (née Traill). Soon after her birth, the family moved from the North to live with their maternal grandmother, Mrs Annie Traill…...
Russell, Angela Gertrude (née Coyne)
Russell, Angela Gertrude (née Coyne) (1893–1991), physician and social reformer, was born 15 November 1893 in Tralee, Co. Kerry, the fourth daughter and seventh child among nine children of James Aloysius Coyne, an inspector of national schools, and Kathleen Mary Coyne (née Pitt).…...
Shackleton, Lydia
Shackleton, Lydia (1828–1914), botanical artist, teacher, and poet, was born 22 November 1828, at Griesemount, Ballitore, Co. Kildare, the third eldest of thirteen children of George Shackleton, a miller, and Hannah Shackleton (née Fisher). Her forebear…...
Shaw (Shaw-Graetz), Elizabeth
Shaw (Shaw-Graetz), Elizabeth (1920–92), artist and children's author, was born 4 May 1920 in the manager's residence above the Ulster Bank in York Street, Belfast, the second of two daughters (there were also two sons) of George William Shaw, bank manager, originally from Co.…...
Simms, Mercy Felicia
Simms, Mercy Felicia (1915–98), social crusader, was born 3 March 1915 in a nursing home at 89 Lower Baggot St., Dublin, only child of Brian James Gwynn (1883–1972) of 48 Hollybrook Road, Clontarf, civil servant employed as assistant secretary in the labour exchange, and his wife…...
Sinclair, Everina Mary Caroline
Sinclair, Everina Mary Caroline (1870–1966), craftswoman and teacher, was born 21 May 1870 in a private maternity home at 111 St Stephen's Green, Dublin, second child among one son and two daughters of James Montgomery Sinclair (1841–99), gentleman landowner, of Bonnyglen, Inver, Co…...
Solomons, Estella Frances
Solomons, Estella Frances (1882–1968), artist, was born 2 April 1882 at 32 Waterloo Road, Dublin, second among four children of Maurice E. Solomons, optician to the royal family and maker of optical instruments, and Rosa Jane Solomons (née Jacobs) of Hull; the other children were Edwin…...
Steyn, Stella
Steyn, Stella (1907–87), artist and designer, was born 26 December 1907 in Dublin, daughter of William Steyn, dentist, and Bertha Steyn (née Jaffe). Both the Steyn and Jaffe families had moved to Limerick from Russia in the 1870s. William and Bertha married in 1890. Stella was the…...
Sugrue, Elizabeth (‘Lady Betty’)
Sugrue, Elizabeth (‘Lady Betty’) (1740/50–1807), executioner, is thought to have been born in Co. Kerry into a tenant farming family between 1740 and 1750. The location of her birth and names of her parents are not known, and available details of her life are largely anecdotal or…...
Sullivan, Lucinda
Sullivan, Lucinda (1831–1881), philanthropist, writer and promoter of children's welfare, was born in 1831, probably in Castleconnell, Co. Limerick, to Captain William Edward Brady , formerly a lieutenant in the 2nd West India Regiment, and subsequently chief constable of police in…...
Swanzy, Mary
Swanzy, Mary (1882–1978), landscape and genre painter, was born 15 February 1882 in Dublin, second of three daughters of Sir Henry Rosborough Swanzy, ophthalmic surgeon and vice-president of the College of Surgeons, and his wife Mary, daughter of Dr John Denham. The family resided at 23…...
Tinney, Mary Catherine
Tinney, Mary Catherine (1924–2006), diplomat, was born on 15 February 1924 in Scotland, where her parents were living briefly. When her father, Eamonn Tinney, an income tax official, was posted to Letterkenny, they returned to his home county, Donegal; her mother, Winifred Tinney (née…...
Traquair, Phoebe Anna
Traquair, Phoebe Anna (1852–1936), mural artist, craftworker, bookbinder, and illustrator, was born 24 May 1852, third daughter of William Moss , physician, of Kilternan, Co. Dublin, and Teresa Moss (née Richardson), and was reared in Dublin and Wicklow. In her late teens she…...
Trench, Cesca (Trinseach, Sadhbh)
Trench, Cesca (Trinseach, Sadhbh) (1891–1918), artist and cultural-political activist, was born Frances Georgiana Chenevix Trench in Liverpool on 3 February 1891, fourth child (of three sons and two daughters) of Francis Chenevix Trench, perpetual curate at the anglican church of St…...
Trevor, Helen Mabel
Trevor, Helen Mabel (1831–1900), artist, was born 20 December 1831 in Lisnagead House, Loughbrickland, Co. Down, eldest daughter of Edward Hill Trevor, Esq.; her mother's name is not known. She began drawing from an early age and her father encouraged her by fitting out a studio in…...