34 Notable alumni of
National College of Art and Design
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The National College of Art and Design is 1493rd in the world, 514th in Europe, and 7th in Ireland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 34 notable alumni from the National College of Art and Design sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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William Butler Yeats
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- astrologermysticpoetwriterplaywright
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William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.
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Dónal Lunny
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- composerguitaristrecord producersingermusic executive
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Dónal Lunny is an Irish folk musician and producer. He plays guitar and bouzouki, as well as keyboards and bodhrán. As a founding member of popular bands Planxty, The Bothy Band, Moving Hearts, Coolfin, Mozaik, LAPD, and Usher's Island, he has been at the forefront of the renaissance of Irish traditional music for over five decades.
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Grace Gifford
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- caricaturist
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Grace Evelyn Gifford Plunkett was an Irish artist and cartoonist who was active in the Republican movement, who married her fiancé Joseph Plunkett in Kilmainham Gaol only a few hours before he was executed for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising.
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Philip Treacy
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- designermodistedressmaker
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Philip Anthony Treacy is an Irish haute couture milliner, or hat designer, who has been mostly based in London for his career, and who was described by Vogue magazine as "perhaps the greatest living milliner". In 2000, Treacy became the first milliner in eighty years to be invited to exhibit at the Paris haute couture fashion shows. He has won British Accessory Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards five times, and has received public honours in both Britain and Ireland. His designs have been displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Harry Clarke
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- painterglass artistillustrator
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Henry Patrick Clarke RHA was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator. Born in Dublin, he was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement.
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Liam Clancy
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- singeractorguitarist
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Liam Clancy was an Irish folk singer from Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary. He was the youngest member of the influential folk group the Clancy Brothers, regarded as Ireland's first pop stars. They achieved global sales of millions and appeared in sold-out concerts at such prominent venues as Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall.
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William Orpen
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- paintervisual artist
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Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, was an Irish artist who mainly worked in London. Orpen was a fine draughtsman and a popular, commercially successful painter of portraits for the well-to-do in Edwardian society, though many of his most striking paintings are self-portraits.
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George William Russell
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- writerpainterscreenwriterpoetjournalist
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George William Russell, who wrote with the pseudonym Æ (often written AE or A.E.), was an Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, painter and Irish nationalist. He was also a writer on mysticism, and a central figure in the group of devotees of theosophy which met in Dublin for many years.
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Reginald Gray
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- painter
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Reginald Gray was an Irish portrait artist. He studied at The National College of Art (1953) and then moved to London, becoming part of the School of London led by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach. In 1960, he painted a portrait of Bacon which is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London. He subsequently painted portraits from life of writers, musicians and artists such as Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Brendan Behan, Garech Browne, Derry O'Sullivan, Alfred Schnittke, Ted Hughes, Rupert Everett and Yves Saint Laurent. In 1993 Gray had a retrospective exhibition at UNESCO Paris and in 2006, his portrait "The White Blouse" won the Sandro Botticelli Prize in Florence, Italy.
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Stella Steyn
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- painterphotographer
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Stella Steyn was an Irish artist.
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Neasa Hardiman
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Ireland - Occupations
- film directortelevision directorscreenwriter
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Neasa Hardiman is an Irish director of both fiction and nonfiction, predominantly known for her television work.
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Walter Osborne
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- painter
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Walter Frederick Osborne was an Irish impressionist and Post-Impressionism landscape and portrait painter, best known for his documentary depictions of late 19th century working class life. Most of his paintings are figurative and focus on women, children, the elderly, the poor, and the day-to-day life of ordinary people on Dublin streets, as well as series of rural scenes. He also produced city-scapes, which he painted from both sketches and photographs. A prolific artist, he produced oils, watercolours, and numerous pencil sketches.
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Seán Keating
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- painterteacher
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Seán Keating 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.
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Niamh Smyth
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- politician
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Niamh Smyth is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cavan–Monaghan constituency since the 2016 general election. She was appointed Chair of the Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht in September 2020.
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Mary Devenport O'Neill
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- 1898-1967 (aged 69)
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- writerpoet
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Mary Devenport O'Neill was an Irish poet and dramatist and a friend and colleague of W. B. Yeats, George Russell, and Austin Clarke.
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Lily Yeats
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- designer
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Susan Mary Yeats, known as Lily Yeats, was an embroiderer associated with the Celtic Revival. In 1908 she founded the embroidery department of Cuala Industries, with which she was involved until its dissolution in 1931. She is known for her embroidered pictures.
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Patrick Swift
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- painter
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Patrick Swift was an Irish painter who worked in Dublin, London and the Algarve, Portugal.
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Elizabeth Yeats
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- publisherbusinessperson
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Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, known as Lolly, was an Anglo-Irish educator and publisher. She worked as an art teacher and published several books on art, and was a founder of Dun Emer Press which published several works by her brother W. B. Yeats. She was the first commercial printer in Ireland to work exclusively with hand presses.
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Pauline Bewick
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- 1935-2022 (aged 87)
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- painter
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Pauline Bewick was an English-born Irish artist.
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Hugh Douglas Hamilton
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- painter
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Hugh Douglas Hamilton RHA was an Irish portrait-painter. He spent considerable periods in London and Rome before returning to Dublin in the early 1790s. Until the mid-1770s, he worked mostly in pastel. His style influenced the English painter Lewis Vaslet (1742–1808).
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Shane Berkery
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- 1992-.. (age 32)
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- painter
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Shane Keisuke Berkery is an Irish-Japanese contemporary artist based in Dublin, Ireland. His cultural background has been a major influence on his work and is a frequent theme in his paintings. Berkery primarily works out of his studio in Dublin.
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Eileen Shields
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- 1970-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- designer
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Eileen Shields is a footwear designer and owner of the EILEEN SHIELDS label and the Dublin-based store/gallery "5 Scarlet Row". Shields's shoe designs have been worn by a number of celebrities, including Eva Longoria's character on Desperate Housewives. Shields has made custom shoes for Bono, Halle Berry, Eva Longoria, Courteney Cox Arquette, and Drew Barrymore.
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Oliver Sheppard
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- sculptor
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Oliver Sheppard was an Irish sculptor, most famous for his 1911 bronze statue of the mythical Cuchullain dying in battle. His work was also part of the art competitions at the 1924 Summer Olympics and the 1928 Summer Olympics.
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Beatrice Elvery
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- painter
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Beatrice Moss Elvery, RHA was an Irish painter, stained-glass artist and sculptor.
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Mary Fitzgerald
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- 1956-.. (age 68)
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- artist
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Mary FitzGerald is an Irish artist. She lives and works in Dublin and County Waterford. After graduating from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 1977, she moved to Japan where she lived and exhibited between 1979 and 1981. FitzGerald has held numerous solo exhibitions in Ireland, Europe and the United States and has participated in group exhibitions worldwide. She has represented Ireland at ROSC, L'Imaginaire Irlandais and the XVIII Bienal de Sao Paulo.
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Patrick Tuohy
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- painter
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Patrick Tuohy was an Irish portrait, narrative, and genre painter.
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Henry Tresham
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- art historianpainter
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Henry Tresham was an Irish-born British historical painter active in London in the late 18th century. He spent some time in Rome early in his career, and was professor of painting at the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 1807 to 1809.
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Daryl Kerrigan
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- fashion designercostume designer
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Daryl Kerrigan, known professionally as Daryl K is an Irish born, fashion designer based in New York City
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Gabriel Hayes
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- 1909-1978 (aged 69)
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- sculptor
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Gabriel Hayes was an Irish artist born in Dublin. She was a sculptor and medallist who studied in Dublin, France, and Italy and was also an accomplished painter.
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Paul Daly
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- 20th Century
- Occupations
- sculptor
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Paul Daly is an Irish sculptor and designer, currently based in London's East End.
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Lydia Shackleton
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- botanical illustratorpainter
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Lydia Shackleton was an Irish botanical artist who studied at the Royal Dublin School of Art and Design. She was the first artist-in-residence at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Dublin, creating hundreds of botanic studies. She also taught, wrote verses, and travelled to the United States.
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Leo Whelan
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- painter
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Leo Whelan RHA was an Irish painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
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Katie Holten
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- sculptorpainter
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Katie Holten is a contemporary Irish artist whose artwork focuses on humans' impact on the natural environment.
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John Trotter
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- artistpainter
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John Trotter was an Irish artist and portrait painter.
