Frances Kelly
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Frances Josephine Kelly (14 February 1908 – 2002; usually known as Judy Boland), was an Irish painter.[1][2][3][4] She is known for being the wife of Frederick Boland, an Irish diplomat who served as the United Nations representative for Ireland. By the age of 27, when she married, she had attained prominence as a painter.[5]
Early life
Kelly was born on 14 February 1908 in Coolagh Bridge, Drogheda, County Louth to James and Marion Kelly (née Shields).[6][7] On 11 February 1935, she married Irish diplomat Frederick Boland in the Church of St Michael, Dún Laoghaire.[8][9] They had a son, Fergal and four daughters; Jane, Nessa, Mella, and the poet Eavan Boland.[10][11][12]
Artistic career
Kelly studied at the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin, and, from 1932 to 1935, in Paris with the cubist painter Léopold Survage.[7][13] In Ireland, she painted the murals in Tullamore Hospital, and those at the old Russell Hotel, Dublin. Kelly specialized in still life works. Her work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.[14]
She died 20 August 2002 in Donnybrook, Dublin.[14]
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- ↑ Eavan Boland, Jody Allen Randolph, Bucknell University Press, 2014, p. 14
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- ↑ Eavan Boland, Jody Allen Randolph, Bucknell University Press, 2014, p. 13
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- ↑ a b Irish Writing London: Volume 2, Post-war to the Present, ed. Tom Herron, Bloomsbury, 2013, p. 46
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- ↑ Who was Who: A Companion to Who's Who, containing the biographies of those who died, vol. VIII, 1981-1990, A. & C. Black, p. 71
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- ↑ Eavan Boland, Jody Allen Randolph, Bucknell University Press, 2014, p. 16
- ↑ Quirke genealogy and family history: of Clonmel, county Tipperary, Ireland; India, New Zealand, England, Australia, South Africa, and the United States, Terence T. Quirke, 2005, p. 183
- ↑ Eavan Boland, Jody Allen Randolph, Bucknell University Press, 2014, p. xx
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