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Romeo Toogood
Romeo Toogood ''ARCA'' ''HRUA'' (6 May 1902- 11 August 1966) was an Ulster artist and teacher who specialized in landscape painting. Early life Romeo Charles Toogood was born in Belfast on 6 May 1902. He was the son of a stone-carver, Charles Toogood, who had moved from England to work on the construction of Belfast City Hall. He was married to Anne in 1932 and had four children, one of whom died at the age of six. Education Toogood received a general education at Hillman Street Public Elementary School until he found work at the age of fourteen as a painter and decorator. Toogood began his professional training at Belfast School of Art in 1922 and graduated in 1925. Between the years 1925 and 1928 Toogood delivered evening classes at the College and amassed £300 which he took to the Royal College of Art in London to continue his studies. His funds did not last the three years that Toogood had intended, therefore he successfully petitioned the College administrators to al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belfast City Hall
Belfast City Hall ( ga, Halla na Cathrach Bhéal Feirste; Ulster-Scots: ''Bilfawst Citie Haw'') is the civic building of Belfast City Council located in Donegall Square, Belfast, Northern Ireland. It faces North and effectively divides the commercial and business areas of the city centre. It is a Grade A listed building. History Belfast City Hall was commissioned to replace the Old Town Hall in Victoria Street. The catalyst for change came in 1888 when Belfast was awarded city status by Queen Victoria. This was in recognition of Belfast's rapid expansion and thriving linen, rope-making, shipbuilding and engineering industries. During this period Belfast briefly overtook Dublin as the most populous city in Ireland. It was in this context that in the late 19th century the new city leaders formed the view that the Victoria Street building was not imposing enough and decided to commission a new building: the site they selected was once the home of the White Linen Hall, an importan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seán Keating
Seán Keating (born John Keating, 28 September 1889 – 21 December 1977) was an Irish romantic-realist painter who painted some iconic images of the Irish War of Independence and of the early industrialization of Ireland. He spent two weeks or so each year during the late summer on the Aran Islands and his many portraits of island people depicted them as rugged heroic figures. However, he ceased to visit the Aran Islands in 1965. Life and career Seán Keating studied drawing at the Limerick Technical School before a scholarship arranged by William Orpen allowed him to go at the age of twenty to study at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin. Over the next few years, he spent time on the Aran Islands. In 1914 Keating won the RDS Taylor award with a painting titled ''The Reconciliation''. The prize included £50 which allowed him to go to London to work as Orpen's studio assistant in 1915. In late 1915 or early 1916, he returned to Ireland where he documented the War o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arts Council Of Northern Ireland
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Irish: ''Comhairle Ealaíon Thuaisceart Éireann'', Ulster-Scots: ''Airts Cooncil o Norlin Airlan'') is the lead development agency for the arts in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1964, as a successor to the Committee for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA). As the main development agency for the arts it is responsible for the distribution of Exchequer and National Lottery Funding for the arts in Northern Ireland. The council is headquartered at Linen Hill House, 23 Linenhall Street, Lisburn. Organisationally it is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Communities. Notable projects * Audiences NI * Belfast Festival at Queens * Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival * Culture Northern Ireland * Féile an Phobail See also *List of Government departments and agencies in Northern Ireland *Northern Ireland Screen *Arts Council (Ireland) The Arts Council (sometimes called the Arts Council of Ireland; legally ga, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olive Henry
Olive Henry ''HRUA'' (15 January 1902 -8 November 1989) was a Northern Irish artist known for her painting, photography and stained glass design. She was a founding member of the Ulster Society of Women Artists and is believed to have been the only female stained glass artist working in Northern Ireland in the first half of the twentieth century. Early life Olive Henry was born in Belfast on 15 January 1902, the daughter of the tea merchant George Adams Henry. She attended Mount Pottinger National School, and Victoria College, before expanding her studies at night classes at the Belfast School of Art. Henry completed an apprenticeship at Clokey Stained Glass Studios founded by Walter Francis Clokey where she was to work for over fifty years designing stained glass windows. Her appointment in Autumn of 1919 came by a chance visit to Victoria College by the firm's owner who was seeking a suitable apprentice. Henry retired from the firm at Easter 1972. Snoddy suggests that Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Berger Hammerschlag
Alice Berger Hammerschlag née Berger (18 February 1917 – 14 July 1969) was an Austrian artist. She settled in Belfast and while creating abstract paintings also had a number of creative and administrative roles in Northern Ireland. Biography Hammerschlag was born in Vienna and studied art between 1929 and 1938 under Franz Cižek at the Kunstgewerbeschule and at the Vienna Academy of Arts. In 1938 she moved to Belfast, as a refugee on a British government permit for graphic designers, to avoid persecution under the Nazi regime. Her older sister, Trudi, came to Britain with her, but the two appear to have led separate lives once in the UK, with Trudi becoming a linguist and teacher, eventually leading a team at York University in its Language Centre. In Northern Ireland Hammerschlag did design work for commercial publishers and, later, designed theatre sets. In 1941 the Ulster Academy of Arts published a portfolio of her lithographs in aid of the Ulster Hospital for Children and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis H
Dennis or Denis is a first or last name from the Greco-Roman name Dionysius, via one of the Christian saints named Dionysius. The name came from Dionysus, the Greek god of ecstatic states, particularly those produced by wine, which is sometimes said to be derived from the Greek Dios (Διός, "of Zeus") and Nysos or Nysa (Νῦσα), where the young god was raised. Dionysus (or Dionysos; also known as Bacchus in Roman mythology and associated with the Italic Liber), the Thracian god of wine, represents not only the intoxicating power of wine, but also its social and beneficent influences. He is viewed as the promoter of civilization, a lawgiver, and lover of peace—as well as the patron deity of both agriculture and the theater. Dionysus is a god of mystery religious rites, such as those practiced in honor of Demeter and Persephone at Eleusis near Athens. In the Thracian mysteries, he wears the "bassaris" or fox-skin, symbolizing new life. (See also Maenads.) A mediaeval L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank McKelvey
Frank McKelvey (3 June 1895 – 30 June 1974) was an Irish painter from Belfast. Early life and education Francis Baird McKelvey, also known as Frank McKelvey, was born 3 June 1895. He was born in Belfast at 31 Woodvale Road. He was baptised at Saint Matthew's Parish Church. His parents William and Mary McKelvey had six children, three sons and three daughters. McKelevy was the second oldest. William, his father, was a decorator and painter. McKelvey attended Mayo Street National School in Belfast. When he was 16 he became a lithographer apprentice to the firm, David Allen & Sons. They produced postcards, posters and notices. McKelvey enrolled in the Belfast College of Art part time by attending evening classes until he left his employment in 1911 to study full-time. Alfred Rawlings Baker, McKelvey's art master, had great influence on him during his time at art college. McKelvey received numerous awards for his artworks including the Sir Charles Brett Prize, the Fitzpatri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustus John
Augustus Edwin John (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a time he was considered the most important artist at work in Britain: Virginia Woolf remarked that by 1908 the era of John Singer Sargent and Charles Wellington Furse "was over. The age of Augustus John was dawning." He was the younger brother of the painter Gwen John. Early life Born in Tenby, at 11,12 or 13 The Esplanade, now known as The Belgrave Hotel, Pembrokeshire, John was the younger son and third of four children. His father was Edwin William John, a Welsh solicitor; his mother, Augusta Smith, from a long line of Sussex master plumbers, died young when he was six, but not before inculcating a love of drawing in both Augustus and his older sister Gwen. At the age of seventeen he briefly attended the Tenby School of Art, then left Wales for London, studying at the Slade School of Art, University College London. He became the star pupil of drawing teacher Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherith McKinstry
Cherith McKinstry (4 March 1928 -October 2004) was an Irish painter and sculptor. Biography Cherith Boyd was born in Powick, Worcestershire to Lilian Goodwin, a nurse, and Arthur Boyd a psychiatric doctor. She was the middle child of three girls. When Cherith was three years old her father moved the family back to his native Ulster where he was to take a post as superintendent at Antrim Mental Hospital. Boyd was taught by a governess until the age of ten, when along with her older sister she was enrolled as a boarder at Ashleigh House in Belfast. At school she befriended Florence McKinstry whose brother she would later marry. Her father died in 1939 and her mother was appointed matron at Ashleigh House in the same year. When World War II broke-out the students were evacuated to Learmount Castle in the Sperrins, where Boyd contracted polio which was to affect her gait for the rest of her life. Her art teacher Romilly Seymour recommended that she train at Belfast College of Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basil Blackshaw
Basil Joseph Blackshaw ''HRUA, HRHA'' (July 1932 – 2 May 2016) was a Northern Irish artist specialising in animal paintings, portraits and landscapes and an Academician of the Royal Ulster Academy. Early life and education Born in Glengormley, County Antrim, Northern Ireland and brought up in Boardmills in Lisburn, County Down, he was the son of a professional horse trainer, Englishman Samson Blackshaw and Edith Clayton from Tyrone. Blackshaw attended Methodist College Belfast and studied at Belfast College of Art (1948–1951) under Romeo Toogood. In 1950 Blackshaw joined two of his fellow students, Michael Stewart and Esther Crolley, as winners of the annual competition for the most outstanding students of the year, in the forty-eighth annual exhibition of the Ulster Arts Club. In 1951 Blackshaw was awarded a scholarship to study in Paris by the Committee for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts. For a number of years after his graduation Blackshaw taught part-time at the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friends' School, Lisburn
Friends' School, Lisburn is a Quaker voluntary grammar school in the city of Lisburn, Northern Ireland, founded in 1774. History Friends’ School Lisburn was founded – as The Ulster Provincial School – on the basis of a bequest in 1764 of a prosperous linen merchant, John Hancock, who left £1,000 for the purchase of land in or near Lisburn on which to build a school for the children of Quakers. at Prospect Hill were purchased from the Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Earl of Hertford. In 1774, the first headmaster, John Gough, took up his post. In 1794 The Ulster Provincial School became the responsibility of the Ulster Quarterly Meeting, the body representing the Religious Society of Friends in Ulster. Friends' is one of two Quaker schools in Ireland, the other being Newtown School, Waterford. There are eight in the United Kingdom. The school has been named by ''The Sunday Times'' as Northern Ireland Secondary School of the Year on two occasions: fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hewitt (poet)
John Harold Hewitt (28 October 1907 – 22 June 1987) was perhaps the most significant Belfast poet to emerge before the 1960s generation of Northern Irish poets that included Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Michael Longley. He was appointed the first writer-in-residence at Queen's University Belfast in 1976. His collections include ''The Day of the Corncrake'' (1969) and ''Out of My Time: Poems 1969 to 1974'' (1974). He was also made a Freeman of the City of Belfast in 1983, and was awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Ulster and Queen's University Belfast.John Hewitt (1907–1987) John Hewitt Collection, University of Ulster, accessed 27 August 2007 From November 1930 to 1957, Hewitt held positions in the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
