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{{Short description|Irish illustrator}}
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| birth_date = 15 June 1902
| birth_place = [[Dublin]], [[Ireland]]
| death_date = 20 January 1981 (aged 78)
| death_place = [[Dublin]], [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]
| nationality = Irish
| field = Cartooning
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'''Charles Edward Kelly''' (15 June 1902 – 20 January 1981) was an [[Republic of Ireland|Irish]] [[cartoonist]], and one of the founders and editors of the [[Satire|satirical]] magazine ''[[Dublin Opinion]]''. His prolific contributions to the magazine were drawn in a variety of styles, from cartoony to illustrative.

Kelly was educated at [[Synge Street CBS]],<ref name="c-kelly-dib-1">{{cite web |title=Dictionary of Irish Biography - Cambridge University Press |url=https://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a4440 |website=dib.cambridge.org |publisher=Cambridge University Press |access-date=4 January 2021}}</ref> and joined the [[Civil service of the Republic of Ireland|Irish civil service]] as a messenger boy at the age of 15. At the age of 19 he, fellow cartoonist [[Arthur Booth (cartoonist)|Arthur Booth]], a 28-year-old clerk, and writer Tom Collins, founded ''Dublin Opinion'' in 1922, on the eve of the Irish Civil War, with Booth becoming its first editor. Kelly had no formal art training, and developed his style by studying the work of the leading cartoonists of the time. After Booth's death in 1926, Kelly co-edited the magazine with Collins, while continuing to work in the civil service, eventually becoming Director of Broadcasting and Director of National Savings.

Kelly's cartoons were also published in ''[[Capuchin Annual|The Capuchin Annual]]'' from 1942 to 1955. He began painting watercolours in the 1930s, and became a member of the Dublin Sketching Club and the Water Colour Society of Ireland: he exhibited over 60 pieces at the latter from 1941 to 1980, and had a solo exhibition of his watercolours in Dublin in 1972.

After Collins' death Kelly struggled on with ''Dublin Opinion'' for a few years, before it was voluntarily wound up in 1968. He received an honorary doctorate from the [[National University of Ireland]] in 1979, and was president and chairman of [[International PEN|PEN]].

His eldest son, [[Frank Kelly|Frank]], was an actor best known for playing Father Jack in the Channel 4 sitcom ''[[Father Ted]]''. His daughter, [[Pauline Bracken]], is a journalist who wrote a memoir, ''Light of Other Days: A Dublin Childhood'', published in 1992.

==References==
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*Thomas J. Collins & Charles E. Kelly (eds.), ''Fifteen Years of Dublin Opinion'', Dublin Opinion Ltd, 1937
*Louis McRedmond (ed.), ''Modern Irish Lives: Dictionary of 20th Century Biography'', Gill & McMillan, 1998, p. 154
*Theo Snoddy, ''Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century'', Merlin Publishing, 2002
*Frank Kelly, [https://web.archive.org/web/20080924180630/http://www.politicalcartoon.co.uk/html/history/dublin-opinion.html The Story of Dublin Opinion]
*[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_19990314/ai_n14485909 Interview with Frank Kelly], Sunday Mirror, 14 March 1999
*[https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1856350320 Pauline Bracken, ''Light of Other Days''] at Amazon.co.uk

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