Fallon, Conor Hubert
Fallon, Conor Hubert (1939–2007), sculptor, was born 30 January 1939 at Holles Street hospital, Dublin, the third of six sons of Padraic Fallon (qv), poet, playwright, and civil servant in customs and excise, residing at 9 Rhoda Villas,…...
Farrell, James
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Farrell, John
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Farrell, Joseph
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Farrell, Micheal
Farrell, Micheal (1940–2000), painter and print-maker, was born 3 July 1940 at Cookstown House, near Ceanannus Mór (Kells), Co. Meath, one of two sons and two daughters of James Farrell, farmer and rugby player with Bective Rangers, and Nora Farrell (née Folwell). He began his…...
Farrell, Sir Thomas
Farrell, Sir Thomas (1827–1900), sculptor, was born in Dublin, third of six sons of Terence Farrell (qv), sculptor, of Dublin, and Maria Farrell (née Ruxton). He received his earliest training as a sculptor in his father's workshop on…...
Farrell, Terence
Farrell, Terence (1798–1876), sculptor, was born at Creve, Co. Longford, where his family ran a number of stone quarries. Nothing more is known of his parents except that in 1810 he moved with his mother to Dublin, where they joined his elder brother, then working there as a stone…...
Faulkner, John
Faulkner, John (c.1830–1890), landscape and marine painter, was born in Dublin. He trained at the School of Landscape and Ornament of the Royal Dublin Society Schools (1848) and exhibited his first works, with the RHA (1853),…...
Fergus
Fergus son of Roach, a key figure in the Ulster cycle, was foster-father of Cú Chulainn (qv), lover of Queen Medb (qv), and (as mac roich ‘son of the great horse’) the most virile man in…...
Ferguson, Vincent
Ferguson, Vincent, (1931–2007), businessman and art collector, was born in the family home in Teeling Street, Sligo town, on 21 June 1931, the son of John Ferguson, printer, and his wife Mary (née McGarry). His mother died when he was five, leaving five boys and two girls. The family…...
Find (Mod. Ir. Fionn; Arch. Ir. Vind; Celt. Vindos)
Find (Mod. Ir. Fionn; Arch. Ir. Vind; Celt. Vindos) son of Cumall, hero figure and central character of the Fianaigecht cycle, was almost certainly a euhemerised deity. A continental background for a deity of this name is well attested; he is commemorated in placenames such as…...
Fisher, Edward
Fisher, Edward (1730–p.1781), engraver, was born 18 November 1730 in Dublin, son of Charles Fisher, hatter, of Wood Quay, Dublin, and Mary Lamb. Nothing is known of his early life or training. By 1757 he was working in London. In that year four mezzotint plates by him…...
Fisher, Jonathan
Fisher, Jonathan (fl. 1763–1809), painter, was established as a linen draper in the Liberties area of Dublin where he was practising as an artist by 1763. Though Strickland says he may have received some training in London, no further evidence has come to light to support…...
Fitzgerald, John
Fitzgerald, John (1825–1910), poet, painter, antiquary, and wood-carver, was born 18 June 1825 at Hanover Street, Cork, son of John Fitzgerald and Martha Mary Deacy. He was educated at Fr Mathew's (qv) school, Blackamoor Lane, and…...
Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington
Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington (1830–1925), writer, sculptor, and barrister, was born 26 April 1830 at Fane Valley, near Dundalk, Co. Louth, the younger son of Thomas Fitzgerald. His father, a pro-repeal MP for Co. Louth (1830–4), had made his fortune from properties in the West…...
Fitzgerald, Robert David
Fitzgerald, Robert David (1830–92), surveyor, botanical artist, and naturalist, was born 30 November 1830 at Tralee, Co. Kerry, the son of Robert David Fitzgerald, a banker, and his wife, Mary Ann, née Bell. After studying civil engineering at QCC…...
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…...