The Tailteann Games or Aonach Tailteann was an Irish sporting and cultural festival held in the Irish Free State in 1924, 1928, and 1932. It was intended as a modern revival of the Tailteann Games hel
Cover of the programme for the 1924 games
Fireworks at the first Games, 15 August 1924
The Australian eight won the silver medal
Boy Charlton who won the 800 m
Patrick Tuohy
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Patrick Tuohy was an Irish portrait, narrative, and genre painter.
Tailteann Games (Irish Free State)
…went to Seán Keating's Homage to Hugh Lane. Other gold medallists included Margaret Clarke, Francis Doyle Jones, Letitia Hamilton, Power O'Malley, and Patrick Tuohy. At the Theatre Royal two recent operas by Irish composers were performed: Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer's Sruth na Maoile (1922) and Harold White's Seán…
A crop from "Self Portrait With Two Girlfriends" (1922)
"Supper Time" by Tuohy (circa 1912) held by the National Gallery of Ireland
John Joyce by Tuohy