Irish art Evie Hone worked in stained glass. Portraitists have included Daniel Maclise, John Lavery, William Orpen (both these War Artists in WWI), John Butler Yeats (father of Jack and William Butler), and Henry Jones Thaddeus. Apart from Francis Bacon, who left Ireland as a young man, the best-known 20th-century Irish artist was Jack Yeats, brother of the poet, also with an individual style that is hard to classify. The art of Seán Keating was poised between Social Realism and Romanticism, and addressed public and political themes in an emerging nation. Irish Modernism began with Mainie Jellett, with later participants being The
Tony Curtis (Irish poet) is his own man. However, there is nothing approximate in his use of language, which is always, note for note, exact and true. By times playful, funny, and deeply serious, these poems find music that makes us most human." Samuel Green, Washington State Poet Laureate 2007–2009 978-1910345-41-2 pbk, 978-1910345-42-9 hbk, 978-1910345-43-6 ebk. 60pp. Published September 2015 by ARC Publications Tony Curtis (Irish poet) Tony Curtis (born 1955) is an Irish poet. Curtis was born in Dublin, and educated at the University of Essex and at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1993 he won the Poetry Ireland/Friends Provident National Poetry Competition. In