Jellett, Mainie
Jellett, Mainie (1897–1944), artist, was born Mary Harriet Jellett on 29 April 1897 into a protestant family at 37 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, the eldest of four daughters of William Morgan Jellett, a barrister, and Janet Jellett (née Stokes). Her father, the son of…...
Jones, Nancy (Esperanca) Wynne-
Jones, Nancy (Esperanca) Wynne- (1922–2006), painter, was born 10 December 1922 at Penmaenucha, Dolgellau, north Wales, youngest child among two sons and one daughter of Charles Llewellyn Wynne-Jones (c.1891–1974), landowner, and his wife Sybil Mary Gella (née Scott) (c…...
Kane, Katherine Sophia
Kane, Katherine Sophia (1811–86), botanist and horticulturist, was born 11 March 1811, the only child of Henry Baily , who came from Berkshire, England, to Limerick as a distiller, and Bridget Baily (née O'Kelly). Katherine's uncle Francis Baily was an eminent astronomer and vice-…...
Kavanagh, Lady Harriet Margaret
Kavanagh, Lady Harriet Margaret (1800–85), artist, traveller, and antiquarian, was second daughter among three sons and four daughters of Richard Le Poer Trench (qv), later 2nd earl of Clancarty, and Henrietta Margaret Le Poer Trench…...
Kay, Dorothy Moss
Kay, Dorothy Moss (1886–1964), artist, was born 3 December 1886 in Greystones, Co. Wicklow, one of seven children of (John) William Elvery , merchant, and his wife, Mary Teresa (d. 1925), daughter of Dr William Moss of Kilternan, Co. Dublin, and Teresa Moss (née Richardson) of…...
Kelly, Frances Josephine
Kelly, Frances Josephine (1908–2002), artist, was born 14 February 1908 in Drogheda, Co. Louth, daughter of James Kelly, master mariner, and Marion Kelly (née Shields). She studied at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin and was a star pupil, exhibiting frequently in the…...
Kirkwood, Harriet (née Jameson)
Kirkwood, Harriet (née Jameson) (1880–1953), landscape and still life painter, was born Grace Harriet Sara Jameson in Dublin on 28 September 1880, the middle of the three daughters of Andrew Jameson (qv), chairman and managing director of…...
Lamont (La Mont, La Monte), Elish
Lamont (La Mont, La Monte), Elish (1816–70), artist and writer, was born in Belfast into a prominent business family, daughter of John Lamont, stationer and printer. Having trained as a miniaturist in London, she subsequently returned to Belfast, where by 1837 she had established…...
Lavery, Hazel
Lavery, Hazel (1880–1935), Lady Lavery, artist, model, actress and socialite, was born 14 March 1880 at 514 North Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Edward Jenner Martyn (1846–1897), a self-made man who became vice president of Armour & Co. (a successful meat packing firm)…...
Lynch, Mary Concepta
Lynch, Mary Concepta (1874–1939), artist and Dominican nun, was born Lilly Lynch in Dublin, daughter of Thomas Joseph Lynch, a renowned Dublin illuminator who had a studio in Middle Abbey St. and later at 31 Grafton St.; nothing is known of her mother. Her father was at the…...
MacDonnell, Angela Christina (‘Angela Antrim’) (née Sykes)
MacDonnell, Angela Christina (‘Angela Antrim’) (née Sykes) (1911–84), countess of Antrim , sculptor, cartoonist, and illustrator, was born 6 September 1911 at Eddlethorpe, near Malton, Yorkshire, youngest daughter and fifth child among three sons and three daughters of Sir Mark Sykes,…...
Manning, Mary Ruth (May)
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McGuinness, Norah
McGuinness, Norah (1901–80), painter, was born 7 November 1901 in Derry city, eldest daughter of Joseph Allison McGuinness, coal merchant and shipowner, of Lawrence Hill, Derry, and Jessie McGuinness (maiden name unknown). She was educated at Victoria High School, known for its…...
McKee, Eva Kathleen
McKee, Eva Kathleen (1890–1955), craftswoman, was born 28 July 1890 at 32 Lothair Avenue, Belfast, daughter of James Henry McKee, builder, of that address, and Jane McKee (née Grogan). While working during the 1910s in the Irish Decorative Art Association (IDAA) – a Belfast-based…...
Mitchell, Flora Hippisley
Mitchell, Flora Hippisley (1890–1973), painter, was born 23 December 1890 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA, eldest child of Arthur J. C. Mitchell, manager director of the Anglo-American Cattle Co., originally from Devonshire, and his wife Margaret (m. March 1890; née Hippisley?). As a…...
Molloy, Dorothy (Mary)
Molloy, Dorothy (Mary) (1942–2004), poet, painter and journalist, was born 10 June 1942 in Ballina, Co. Mayo, third child of Patrick Molloy, who was in the building trade, and his wife Kathleen, known as Doris (née Murphy). The family of two daughters and three sons moved to Dublin…...
Moloney, Helen
Moloney, Helen (1926–2011), artist in stained glass and other media, was born 2 January 1926 in Henry Street, Tipperary town; she and her twin sister Mary (O'Halpin) were the eldest among four daughters and one son of James Moloney (1896–1981) and his wife Katherine (Kathleen)…...
Mulcahy, Neillí
Mulcahy, Neillí (1925–2012), fashion designer, was born in Dublin on 27 February 1925, the second youngest of six chidren (three girls and three boys) of Gen. Richard Mulcahy (qv), IRA chief of staff and politician, and …...
Niland, Nora
Niland, Nora (1912–88), Sligo county librarian and founder of the Sligo municipal art collection, was born 21 March 1912 in Galway, eighth child among six sons and three daughters of John Niland, of Ballinastack, Tuam, Co. Galway, railway worker and small farmer, and his wife Elizabeth…...
O'Brien (Arnold-Forster), Florence Mary
O'Brien (Arnold-Forster), Florence Mary (1854–1936), diarist, philanthropist, and craftswoman, was born 3 July 1854 in Bayswater, London, the second of four children of William Delafield Arnold and Frances Anne Arnold (née Hodgson). Her father, a son of Dr Thomas Arnold of Rugby and…...
O'Brien, Catherine Amelia
O'Brien, Catherine Amelia (1881–1963), stained-glass artist, was born 19 June 1881 at Durra, Ennis, Co. Clare, one of five children of Pierce O'Brien, JP, a gentleman landowner, of Durra house, Ennis, Co. Clare, and Sophia Angel St John O'…...
O'Brien, Ellen Lucy (‘Nelly’)
O'Brien, Ellen Lucy (‘Nelly’) (Ní Bhriain, Neilí) (1864–1925), miniature and landscape artist, and Gaelic League activist, was born 4 June 1864, the eldest of two daughters and one son of Edward William O'Brien, landowner, of Cahirmoyle, Co. Limerick, and Mary O'Brien (née Spring Rice…...
O'Donnell, Erica Marie-Josèphe
O'Donnell, Erica Marie-Josèphe (1920–99), art historian and SOE officer, was born 11 March 1920 in Dublin, the only child of Eric Hugh O'Donnell, a British army officer of Dublin and Ballingaddy, Co. Limerick, and his wife Mary Mabel Elizabeth, second daughter of Joseph Charles Dunbar…...
O'Hagan, Harriet (née Osborne)
O'Hagan, Harriet (née Osborne) (1830–1921), portrait painter, was born in Dublin and studied drawing with George Sharp RHA (1802–77). As Harriet Osborne, aged nineteen, she exhibited, for the first time with the RHA, a lithograph of Mrs Hone…...
O'Neill, Henrietta
O'Neill, Henrietta (1757/8–1793), poet, hostess, and patron of the arts, was the only child of Charles Boyle (1728–59), Viscount Dungarvan (son of John Boyle (qv), 5th earl of Cork and Orrery), and his wife, Susannah (1732–83), daughter of…...