An Artist.
A member of the Dublin Painters group, as well as a poet, playwright and owner of the Gayfield Press, Cecil Salkeld was at the forefront of the avant-garde in Irish arts and literature. He studied art in Kassell in the early 1920s, coming under the influence of Otto Dix and the New Objectivity movement. Upon returning to Dublin, he aligned himself immediately with the modernists, showing works with the New Irish Salon and the Radical Painters' Group among others. Reviewing an exhibition of his at the Victor Waddington Galleries in 1945, the Dublin Magazine commented on Salkeld's "original, sombre palette, intellectually rather than emotionally conceived".
"He was a man of too many gifts - none of them sufficiently strong to control him. ... He seemed to me to have a contempt for life - which in a man so gifted was especially sad. The invalidism of his later years was deplorable, but must have been an expression of wounded pride, a refusal to complete [...]. Yet he must be said to have had a good life."
Quote from Kate O'Brien.
He was educated at Mount St. Benedict, Gorey Co. Wexford, where Sean MacBride was a contemporary.
He married Irma Tessler in 1922, in Germany.
They had two daughters, Celia and Beatrice.
In 1954, Beatrice married Brendan Behan, who is also buried in this grave.
He died at St. Laurence's Hospital, Dublin.
The headstone is for Brendan Behan
The small plaque on the ground has the other names on it, and reads,
Here Also Lie
Jarlath Ffrench-Mullen 1855-1928
Mina Ffrench-Mullen 1860-1932
Blanaid Salkeld -Poet- 1880-1958
Cecil Ffrench Salkeld-Artist-1903-1969
Irma Salkeld 1891-1976
A member of the Dublin Painters group, as well as a poet, playwright and owner of the Gayfield Press, Cecil Salkeld was at the forefront of the avant-garde in Irish arts and literature. He studied art in Kassell in the early 1920s, coming under the influence of Otto Dix and the New Objectivity movement. Upon returning to Dublin, he aligned himself immediately with the modernists, showing works with the New Irish Salon and the Radical Painters' Group among others. Reviewing an exhibition of his at the Victor Waddington Galleries in 1945, the Dublin Magazine commented on Salkeld's "original, sombre palette, intellectually rather than emotionally conceived".
"He was a man of too many gifts - none of them sufficiently strong to control him. ... He seemed to me to have a contempt for life - which in a man so gifted was especially sad. The invalidism of his later years was deplorable, but must have been an expression of wounded pride, a refusal to complete [...]. Yet he must be said to have had a good life."
Quote from Kate O'Brien.
He was educated at Mount St. Benedict, Gorey Co. Wexford, where Sean MacBride was a contemporary.
He married Irma Tessler in 1922, in Germany.
They had two daughters, Celia and Beatrice.
In 1954, Beatrice married Brendan Behan, who is also buried in this grave.
He died at St. Laurence's Hospital, Dublin.
The headstone is for Brendan Behan
The small plaque on the ground has the other names on it, and reads,
Here Also Lie
Jarlath Ffrench-Mullen 1855-1928
Mina Ffrench-Mullen 1860-1932
Blanaid Salkeld -Poet- 1880-1958
Cecil Ffrench Salkeld-Artist-1903-1969
Irma Salkeld 1891-1976
An Artist.
A member of the Dublin Painters group, as well as a poet, playwright and owner of the Gayfield Press, Cecil Salkeld was at the forefront of the avant-garde in Irish arts and literature. He studied art in Kassell in the early 1920s, coming under the influence of Otto Dix and the New Objectivity movement. Upon returning to Dublin, he aligned himself immediately with the modernists, showing works with the New Irish Salon and the Radical Painters' Group among others. Reviewing an exhibition of his at the Victor Waddington Galleries in 1945, the Dublin Magazine commented on Salkeld's "original, sombre palette, intellectually rather than emotionally conceived".
"He was a man of too many gifts - none of them sufficiently strong to control him. ... He seemed to me to have a contempt for life - which in a man so gifted was especially sad. The invalidism of his later years was deplorable, but must have been an expression of wounded pride, a refusal to complete [...]. Yet he must be said to have had a good life."
Quote from Kate O'Brien.
He was educated at Mount St. Benedict, Gorey Co. Wexford, where Sean MacBride was a contemporary.
He married Irma Tessler in 1922, in Germany.
They had two daughters, Celia and Beatrice.
In 1954, Beatrice married Brendan Behan, who is also buried in this grave.
He died at St. Laurence's Hospital, Dublin.
The headstone is for Brendan Behan
The small plaque on the ground has the other names on it, and reads,
Here Also Lie
Jarlath Ffrench-Mullen 1855-1928
Mina Ffrench-Mullen 1860-1932
Blanaid Salkeld -Poet- 1880-1958
Cecil Ffrench Salkeld-Artist-1903-1969
Irma Salkeld 1891-1976
A member of the Dublin Painters group, as well as a poet, playwright and owner of the Gayfield Press, Cecil Salkeld was at the forefront of the avant-garde in Irish arts and literature. He studied art in Kassell in the early 1920s, coming under the influence of Otto Dix and the New Objectivity movement. Upon returning to Dublin, he aligned himself immediately with the modernists, showing works with the New Irish Salon and the Radical Painters' Group among others. Reviewing an exhibition of his at the Victor Waddington Galleries in 1945, the Dublin Magazine commented on Salkeld's "original, sombre palette, intellectually rather than emotionally conceived".
"He was a man of too many gifts - none of them sufficiently strong to control him. ... He seemed to me to have a contempt for life - which in a man so gifted was especially sad. The invalidism of his later years was deplorable, but must have been an expression of wounded pride, a refusal to complete [...]. Yet he must be said to have had a good life."
Quote from Kate O'Brien.
He was educated at Mount St. Benedict, Gorey Co. Wexford, where Sean MacBride was a contemporary.
He married Irma Tessler in 1922, in Germany.
They had two daughters, Celia and Beatrice.
In 1954, Beatrice married Brendan Behan, who is also buried in this grave.
He died at St. Laurence's Hospital, Dublin.
The headstone is for Brendan Behan
The small plaque on the ground has the other names on it, and reads,
Here Also Lie
Jarlath Ffrench-Mullen 1855-1928
Mina Ffrench-Mullen 1860-1932
Blanaid Salkeld -Poet- 1880-1958
Cecil Ffrench Salkeld-Artist-1903-1969
Irma Salkeld 1891-1976
Inscription
here also lie
Lt. Col. JARLATH FfRENCH MULLEN 1885-1928
MINA FfRENCH MULLEN 1860-1932
BLÁNÁID SALKELD / Poet / 1880-1958
CECIL FfRENCH SALKELD / Artist / 1908-1969
IRMA SALKELD 1891-1976
CECILIA SALKELD 1936-1984
BEATRICE BEHAN 1926-1993
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