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Lily Williams (artist)
Lily Williams Royal Hibernian Academy, ARHA (20 October 1874 – 16 January 1940) was an Irish portrait painter. She also designed a Definitive stamp, definitive Irish postage stamp. Life Lily Williams was born Elizabeth Josephine Williams in Rathmines, Dublin on 20 October 1874. She initially studied art under Mary Manning (artist), Mary Manning, going on to enrol in the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. She studied alongside Estella Solomons and Cissie Beckett. She was a member of the Dublin Sketching Club. Williams exhibited with the Royal Hibernian Academy annually from 1904 to 1939. She became an associate of the RHA in 1929. Williams was a Irish republicanism, Republican and supporter of Sinn Féin, which led to her falling out with her Protestant, Irish Unionism, Unionist family during the Easter Rising in 1916. Some of her best known paintings feature nationalist themes or are portraits of figures relating to Irish War of Independence, Irish independence. She also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rathmines
Rathmines (; ) is an inner suburb on the Southside (Dublin), Southside of Dublin in Ireland. It begins at the southern side of the Grand Canal of Ireland, Grand Canal and stretches along the Rathmines Road as far as Rathgar to the south, Ranelagh to the east, and Harold's Cross to the west. It is situated in the city's List of Dublin postal districts, D06 postal district. Rathmines is a commercial and social hub and was well known across Ireland as "Flatland"—an area where subdivided large Georgian and Victorian houses provided rented accommodation to newly arrived junior civil servants and third-level students from outside the city from the 1930s. However, in more recent times, Rathmines has diversified its housing stock and many historic houses formerly divided into often tiny flats and bedsits have in a process of gentrifying been re-amalgamated into single-family homes. Rathmines gained a reputation as a "Dublin Belgravia" in the 19th Century. Name Rathmines is an Anglici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
