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Harry Kernoff RHA (1900-1974)

Currency:EUR Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR
Harry Kernoff RHA (1900-1974)
Harry Kernoff RHA (1900-1974) RICHARD HAYWARD signed and inscribed "30 min.s" and with the sitter's name, lower right charcoal heightened with white 51 by 38cm., 20 by 15in. Ulsterman N. Richard Hayward (1892-1964) was a multi-talented actor, singer, musician, writer and director. He played the leading role in the 1935 film, "The Luck of the Irish", which was the first ever to be shot in Ulster, and also made an appearance on the very first night of Ulster television. He founded the Belfast Repertory Theatre, co-founded the Belfast Radio Players, and wrote several plays. A specialist in the Ulster dialect and in Ulster history, he wrote several travel books on the area, the best known being In Praise of Ulster, published in 1938 and illustrated by James Humbert Craig. Hayward was killed in a car crash in 1964. At his funeral service in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, the Rev. D. Frazer-Hurst paid tribute to his "great contribution to Irish literature and to the development of culture in this country".€1500-€2000 (IR £1200-£1600 approx.)
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