Flanagan, Edward Joseph
Flanagan, Edward Joseph (1886–1948), catholic priest and founder of Boys Town, was born 13 July 1886 at Ballymoe, Co. Roscommon, son of John Flanagan, herdsman, and Nora Flanagan (née Larkin). One of eleven children, he was first educated at a local school, Drimatample, and…...
Flanagan, Terence Philip ('T. P.'; 'Terry')
Flanagan, Terence Philip ('T. P.'; 'Terry') (1929–2011), painter, was born 15 August 1929 at 18 The Hollow, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, the eldest among four sons and three daughters of William Flanagan and his wife Margaret (née Maguire). His father held a series of clerical jobs in…...
Foley, Edward Arlington
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Foley, John Henry
Foley, John Henry (1818–74), sculptor, was born 24 May 1818 at 6 Montgomery St., Dublin, second son and second among four children of Jesse Foley, glassblower, and Eliza Foley (née Byrne). His father later ran a grocer's shop on Mecklenburg St. His paternal step-grandfather,…...
Forbes, Ernest
Forbes, Ernest (1879–1962), cartoonist, landscape artist and portraitist, was born Ernest Forbes Holgate in Leeds on 2 July 1879, second son of Thomas Pullan Holgate, stonemason and sculptor, and Hannah Margaret Holgate (née Forbes). He changed his name by deed poll to Ernest Forbes…...
Forbes, Stanhope Alexander
Forbes, Stanhope Alexander (1857–1947), artist, was born 18 November 1857 in Dublin, the younger of two sons of William Forbes, a manager of the Midland Great Western Railway, and his wife Juliette de Guise of France. He was initially taught by a governess, Sophie Moran, who took…...
Forde, Samuel
Forde, Samuel (1805–28), painter, was born 5 April 1805 in Cork, second son and second among three children of Samuel Forde of Cork, a tradesman who abandoned his family and fled to America when his business failed. Nothing is known of his mother. It fell to Forde's elder brother,…...
Forrester, James
Forrester, James (1730–76), artist, was born in July 1730 in Dublin. Little is known of his family connections or his early life. He studied under the artist and draughtsman Robert West (qv) (d. 1770) at the Dublin Society School of Drawing…...
Fox, Kathleen
Fox, Kathleen (1880–1963), painter, enamellist, and stained-glass artist, was born 12 September 1880 at Glenageary, Co. Dublin, daughter of Capt. Henry Charles Fox of the King's Dragoon Guards. She received her artistic training at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, where she…...
Frankau, Julia (‘Frank Danby’)
Frankau, Julia (‘Frank Danby’) (1859–1916), art historian and novelist, was born 30 July 1859 in Dublin, into an English Jewish family, seventh among nine children of Hyman Davis (d. 1871), dentist and later artist/photographer, and his wife Isabella. Her parents arrived in Dublin in…...
Frazer, Hugh
Frazer, Hugh (1793?–1880), artist, was from Dromore, Co. Down. His parents were probably Hugh and Agnes Frazer (née Dickson); Hugh Frazer senior may have been a solicitor, and the family was well-connected locally. Agnes Frazer's grandfather, Alexander Colville (d. 1777), was a…...
French, (William) Percy
French, (William) Percy (1854–1920), songwriter, humourist, entertainer, and painter, was born 1 May 1854 in Cloonyquin House, parish of Tulsk, Co. Roscommon, second son and third child among four sons and five daughters of Christopher French (1821–97), landowner, and Susan Emma French…...
Friers, Rowel Boyd
Friers, Rowel Boyd (1920–98), cartoonist and painter, was born 13 April 1920 in Ravenhill Road, Belfast, youngest among six children of William Friers (d. 1926), a cashier in Irish Distillery, and Nellie Friers (née Stevenson). Rowel was educated at Park Parade intermediate school. All…...
Frömel, Gerda
Frömel, Gerda (1931–75), sculptor, was born 5 November 1931 at Schönberg, Czechoslovakia, eldest of four daughters of German parents. The family moved to Vienna in 1945 and later to Germany, where Frömel studied art in Stuttgart (where she received a scholarship in 1949), Darmstadt…...
Frye, Thomas
Frye, Thomas (1710–62), painter and mezzotint engraver, has traditionally been recorded as being born ‘in or near Dublin’, though it is likely he was born in Edenderry, King's Co. (Offaly), second among five sons of John Frye (1670–1752) and Anne Harrington, who also had two…...
Funge, Paul
Funge, Paul (1944–2011), artist and cultural impresario, was born Matthew Paul Funge on 25 January 1944 in Earslfort Terrace, Dublin, the youngest of three sons of Thomas Funge, a draper, of Main Street, Gorey, Co. Wexford, and his wife Ellen (née Doyle). His brother Michael followed…...
Furlong, George Joseph
Furlong, George Joseph (1898–1987), art historian and gallery director, was born 1 February 1898 in Dundrum, seven miles north-west of Cashel, Co. Tipperary, son of Michael Furlong, hotel proprietor, and Kate Mary Furlong (née Bourke). Although he was orphaned at 9, the family…...
Furniss, Harry
Furniss, Harry (1854–1925), illustrator and caricaturist, was born 26 March 1854 in Wexford town, youngest son of James Furniss, civil engineer, originally from Hathersage, Derbyshire, and his second wife Isabella Cornelia, daughter of Eneas McKenzie, topographer, of Newcastle upon…...
Gahan, (Winifred) Muriel Françoise
Gahan, (Winifred) Muriel Françoise (1897–1995), promoter of cooperation and traditional crafts, was born 27 October 1897 at Magherabeg House, near Donegal town, the second daughter of (Fredrick George) Townsend Gahan, a civil engineer with the Congested Districts Board, and…...
Gandy, James
Gandy, James (1619–89), portrait painter, was born in Exeter, England, and is thought to have been a pupil or assistant of Sir Anthony Van Dyck (d. 1641). He was one of the many artists influenced by the French and Dutch schools, and he moved to Ireland (1662) with his patron the…...
Gandy, William
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Geddes, Wilhelmina Margaret
Geddes, Wilhelmina Margaret (1887–1955), stained-glass artist, was born 25 May 1887 at her maternal grandparents’ home, Drumreilly, Co. Leitrim, eldest of four children of Belfast-born William Geddes, site engineer with the Sligo, Leitrim, and Northern Counties Railway, and Eliza Geddes…...
Gibb (Gibson), Rosemary Elizabeth Jane (‘Rosy’)
Gibb (Gibson), Rosemary Elizabeth Jane (‘Rosy’) (1942–97), social worker, clown, and magician, was born 8 November 1942 in Dublin, the only child of Jack Gibson, a well-known surgeon and hypnotist, and Elizabeth Maude Gibson (née James). She passed her early childhood in Guernsey, where…...
Gibbings, Robert John
Gibbings, Robert John (1889–1958), engraver, illustrator, and author, was born 23 March 1889 in Co. Cork, son of the Rev. Edward Gibbings, rector of Carrigrohane, and Caroline Gibbings (née Day). He was educated at boarding schools in Fermoy and Cork before entering…...
Gifford, Grace (Evelyn)
Gifford, Grace (Evelyn) (1888–1955), cartoonist and republican, was born 4 March 1888 at 8 Temple Villas, Palmerston Park, Rathmines, Dublin, one of twelve children of Frederick Gifford, a wealthy solicitor, and Isabella Gifford (née Burton), a niece of the artist Sir…...