KING, Marion. ABC na Gaedhilge.

Illustrated. Átha Cliath: Oifig Díolta Foillseacháin Rialtais, 1946. Quarto. An Dara Cló. pp. 20. Coloured pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. Rare.

JISC locates 3 copies only BL, NLW and TCD. Marion King was a cartoonist, illustrator and painter on glass. Born in Trim, County Meath, she spent much of her early life with her family in Leeds, England where she studied at Leeds College of Art. She returned to Ireland in 1922 and exhibited in the Angus Gallery, St Stephen’s Green and the Academy of Christian Art, Upper Mount Street, Dublin. She lived for a time in Paris where in 1936 she exhibited at the Salon des Femmes Peintres and the Salon des Artistes Français. Marion King wrote and illustrated a number of children’s books with Irish texts and had a programme on Radio Éireann - ‘Drawing and Painting with Marion King’ which began in 1943. Sean Bunny, her cartoon-and-story strip in the Irish Times began in 1953 and continued until her death in 1963. Sorcha Ní Ghuairim a chuir Gaedhilg air.

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