A Birthday Tea for William Conor

A Birthday Tea for William Conor

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Details

Location

Belfast, Belfast City Hall

Year

1966

Date

Production 16/05/1966

Length

01min 28sec

Audio

mute

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

Joe Tomelty and Lord Mayor Jenkins are among guests at a birthday tea party for artist William Conor at Belfast City Hall. This is William Conor’s 85th birthday and he appears in fine form. We can see a birthday illustration by Rowel Friers of the man himself. 

Notes

Joseph Tomelty (5 March 1911 – 7 June 1995) was an Irish actor, playwright, novelist, short-story writer and theatre manager. He worked in film, television, radio and on the stage, starring in Sam Thompson's 1960 play Over the Bridge. 

William Conor OBE RHA PPRUA ROI (1881–1968) was a Belfast-born artist. 

Celebrated for his warm and sympathetic portrayals of working-class life in Ulster, William Conor studied at the Government School of Design in Belfast in the 1890s. Born in the Old Lodge Road area of north Belfast, the son of a wrought-iron worker, his artistic talents were recognized at the early age of ten when a teacher of music, Louis Mantell, noticed the merit of his chalk drawings and arranged for him to attend the College of Art. 

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