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A great talent kept hidden too long

ArtsHub | Tuesday, November 24, 2009

THE IRISH TIMES: FOR A LONG TIME Kathleen Isabella Metcalfe Mackie was the forgotten woman of Irish art. Paddy Mackie knew his mother to be something of a “dare devil” – a glider pilot, a friend of the pioneering aviator Amy Johnston, a crack shot, a diver, an early skier, an angler who could sweetly cast a fly – but what he didn’t know was that in the 1920s she was an artist of distinction who studied under William Orpen and other leading painters of that period, writes GERRY MORIARTY Northern Editor


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