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Hilda Roberts

BIOGRAPHY Hilda Roberts competed in the arts competition at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games, one of eight Irish artists who entered nine exhibits in the painting competition staged at the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art from 30 July to 31 August 1932. Roberts studied at the Metropolitan School of Art in [...]

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George Collie

BIOGRAPHY George Collie competed in the arts competition at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games, one of eight Irish artists who entered nine exhibits in the painting competition staged at the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art from 30 July to 31 August 1932. He was one of three artists who entered from

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Frances J. Kelly

BIOGRAPHY Frances Kelly was one of the most accomplished Irish painters of her generation, a specialist in still life who also painted murals for significant Dublin institutions including a city hospital and the Russell Hotel. She studied at Dublin's Metropolitan School of Art and, having won a travel scholarship, continued her studies in Paris from

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Charles Lamb

BIOGRAPHY Charles Lamb was one of the leading landscape and figurative painters of twentieth-century Ireland, best known for his vivid depictions of life on the west coast of Ireland - particularly the fishermen, boats and coastal scenes of Connemara and Carraroe on Galway Bay. He competed in the painting section of the arts competition at

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Noel Flanagan

BIOGRAPHY OTHER ATHLETICS OLYMPIANSSEE ALL ATHLETES Adrian O’DwyerAilish SmythAlex WrightAlistair CraggAndrew CoscoranAndy RonanAnn Keenan-BuckleyAoife CookeAva HutchinsonBarbara JohnsonBasil CliffordBertie MessittBob TisdallBreda Dennehy-WillisBrendan BoyceBrendan O’ReillyBrendan QuinnBrendan ReillyBrian FayCaitríona JenningsCarey MayCarlos O’ConnellCaroline O’SheaCathal DoyleCatherina McKiernanCatriona CuddihyCharles ReidyChris O’DonnellCiara EverardCiara MageeanCiarán Ó LionáirdCillin GreeneClaire BerginCliodhna ManningColin GriffinConor McCulloughCormac FinnertyDavid GillickDavid KennyDavid MatthewsDeclan HegartyDeirdre GallagherDeirdre RyanDerval O’RourkeDick HooperDonal McCarthyEamonn CoghlanEamonn

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Louis Crowe

BIOGRAPHY OTHER ATHLETICS OLYMPIANSSEE ALL ATHLETES Adrian O’DwyerAilish SmythAlex WrightAlistair CraggAndrew CoscoranAndy RonanAnn Keenan-BuckleyAoife CookeAva HutchinsonBarbara JohnsonBasil CliffordBertie MessittBob TisdallBreda Dennehy-WillisBrendan BoyceBrendan O’ReillyBrendan QuinnBrendan ReillyBrian FayCaitríona JenningsCarey MayCarlos O’ConnellCaroline O’SheaCathal DoyleCatherina McKiernanCatriona CuddihyCharles ReidyChris O’DonnellCiara EverardCiara MageeanCiarán Ó LionáirdCillin GreeneClaire BerginCliodhna ManningColin GriffinConor McCulloughCormac FinnertyDavid GillickDavid KennyDavid MatthewsDeclan HegartyDeirdre GallagherDeirdre RyanDerval O’RourkeDick HooperDonal McCarthyEamonn CoghlanEamonn

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Charles Reidy

BIOGRAPHY OTHER ATHLETICS OLYMPIANSSEE ALL ATHLETES Adrian O’DwyerAilish SmythAlex WrightAlistair CraggAndrew CoscoranAndy RonanAnn Keenan-BuckleyAoife CookeAva HutchinsonBarbara JohnsonBasil CliffordBertie MessittBob TisdallBreda Dennehy-WillisBrendan BoyceBrendan O’ReillyBrendan QuinnBrendan ReillyBrian FayCaitríona JenningsCarey MayCarlos O’ConnellCaroline O’SheaCathal DoyleCatherina McKiernanCatriona CuddihyChris O’DonnellCiara EverardCiara MageeanCiarán Ó LionáirdCillin GreeneClaire BerginCliodhna ManningColin GriffinConor McCulloughCormac FinnertyDavid GillickDavid KennyDavid MatthewsDeclan HegartyDeirdre GallagherDeirdre RyanDerval O’RourkeDick HooperDonal McCarthyEamonn CoghlanEamonn KinsellaEddie

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Jack Vard

BIOGRAPHY Jack Vard made history at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games as the first Irish wrestler to compete at the Olympic Games, representing Ireland in the lightweight freestyle division. He won the British Open lightweight wrestling title in 1949 and 1951, the Irish Open welterweight titles in 1950 and 1951, the Irish titles at welterweight

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Harry Thuillier

BIOGRAPHY Harry Thuillier was one of the dominant figures in Irish fencing for over two decades, a twelve-time Irish foil champion and a radio broadcaster, who competed at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games after the OCI's Standards Committee initially declined his selection - his admission to the Games secured through the intervention of the FIE

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Tom Kearney

BIOGRAPHY Tom Kearney was the most successful of the Irish fencing contingent at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games, qualifying from his first-round group and advancing to the second round in the épée competition - the furthest any Irish fencer progressed at those Games. A dairy farmer from Ballyragget, Co. Kilkenny, Kearney competed after the OCI's

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