1865 - 1945
Originally from Limerick, Dermod O’Brien spent time studying paintings in Europe, particularly in the Louvre, following which he made the decision to paint full time. He studied under Charles Verlat at the Antwerp Academy, where he met Walter Osborne. O’Brien continued his studies at the Academi...
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1910 - 1982
Kitty Wilmer always wanted to go to art school. She got her wish aged sixteen when she entered the RHA Schools, where she won awards including the Taylor Scholarship which allowed her to move to London to study at The Slade. She later went with her sister-in-law, Rose Brigid Ganly to study with And...
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1942 -
Following his studies at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin born Anthony O’Carroll moved to Scandinavia to study at the Academy of Fine Art in Helsinki and the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Art in Stockholm. From the mid 1960s on, O’Carroll had solo shows in Dublin at the Molesworth ...
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1928 -
Long associated with the St. Ives School of painters, O’Casey began his studies at the Anglo-French Art Centre in London in 1949 and Saint Martin’s School of Art in 1953 before completing an apprenticeship under Denis Mitchell and Barbara Hepworth. He has lived and worked in Cornwall since the 1...
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1953 -
Eilís OConnell was born in Derry in 1953. She studied at the Crawford School of Art in Cork from 1970 to 1974, at Massachusetts College of Art, Boston from 1974 to 1975 and again at Crawford School of Art from 1975 to 1977 where she received the only award for Distinction in Sculpture that year. Ot...
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