Fergus O’Ryan, RHA (1911-1989) Born in Limerick on 13 March 1911, landscape and townscape painter. He was passionate about travel and spent most holidays abroad visiting France and Germany before the Second World War leaving a European taste to his work as you will see in his market scenes. In 1938 he first exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy which continued until 1984 overall showing nearly 200 works. O’ Ryan also lectured in art at the Masonic School and at evening classes in Rathmines High School. His visits to the continent continued. A solo exhibition at the Victor Waddington Galleries in 1954 found the art “lively and quality interesting. He has a kind of impressionistic virtuosity which, however, seems to me to overlie a fundamentally academic approach to his subject” In his last appearance at the RHA, 1984, his six works included Glendalough River; Laragh; Riddles Row, Dublin. Place de Furstenburg is one of three oils at Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork. In Dublin Civic Museum are six woodcuts of old Dublin. The Fergus O’ Ryan RHA Memorial Award was instituted at the 1993 exhibition. A studio sale was held at t he James Gallery, Dalkey, Co. Dublin, in 1997.