Arthur Booth (cartoonist)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For the English cricketer, see Arthur Booth.

Arthur Booth
Arthur Booth's caricature of Éamon de Valera, Dublin Opinion Vol. IV No. 37, March 1926
Birth name	Arthur James Conry Booth
Born	24 September 1892 Dublin
Died	8 October 1926 Dublin
Nationality	Irish
Field	Cartooning

Arthur James Conry Booth (1892–1928) was an Irish cartoonist and one of the founders of the satirical magazine Dublin Opinion. Born in Dublin, he was educated at the Catholic University School and joined the Dublin United Transport Company. Through his interest in amateur dramatics, he met fellow cartoonist Charles E. Kelly and writer Thomas J. Collins, and decided to start a humorous journal. Booth resigned his job to become editor, and drew the covers as well as interior cartoons.^[1]

Dublin Opinion was launched on 1 March 1922, on the eve of the Irish Civil War, and within four years it was selling 40,000 per issue. Booths cartoons tended to be sombre, concentrating on the destruction caused by the Civil War and the unemployment that followed. He died of pneumonia at the age of 33, leaving a widow and three children.^[1] Thereafter, Kelly and Collins became joint editors of Dublin Opinion.^[2]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Pauric J. Dempsey and Bridget Hourican, "Booth, Arthur James Conry", Dictionary of Irish Biography, Cambridge University Press, 2010
↑ Theo Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century, Merlin Publishing, 2002

Persondata
Name	Booth Arthur
Alternative names
Short description	Cartoonist
Date of birth	24 September 1892
Place of birth	Dublin
Date of death	8 October 1926
Place of death	Dublin

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.