Which artist became Ireland's first ever medallist at the Olympic Games when his painting 'The Liffey Swim' won a silver medal in the Arts and Culture segment of the Games in 1924?
The Liffey Swim a Guinness Barge and finished at Burgh Quay. In 1991 the first ladies race was introduced and in the early 1990s the race was moved 400 yards down river to start beside the Civic Offices and to finish opposite the Custom House. The 2009 Liffey Swim was the 90th edition of the race and saw electronic timing used for the first time. One of the earliest Liffey Swims was portrayed in the Jack B. Yeats 1923 painting entitled "The Liffey Swim", which won him the Silver Medal for Painting at the Art competitions at the 1924 Summer Olympics. The painting
Jack Butler Yeats poet, and the poet is Jack'. He was elected a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1916. He died in Dublin in 1957, and was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery. Yeats holds the distinction of being Ireland's first medalist at the Olympic Games in the wake of creation of the Irish Free State. At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, Yeats' painting "The Liffey Swim" won a silver medal in the arts and culture segment of the Games. In the competition records the painting is simply entitled "Swimming". In November 2010, one of Yeats's works, "A Horseman Enters a