Life
1909-1992; b. 28 Oct., 63 Lwr. Baggot St., Dublin; son of English parents;
his mother, Winifred Margaret née Supple, was wealthy from Yorkshire
steel, his father an army captain, kept stables at Cannycourt Hse., nr.
Kilcullen, Co. Kildare, and later at Straffan Lodge; a grandmother who had settled
at Farmleigh House, nr. Abbeyleix, provided shelter; left Ireland shortly
after and embarked on career as modernist painter.
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Notes
Irish Bacon: Bacon remarked to the author and film-maker Michel
Archimbaud: ‘You can’t really say that I’m Irish. It is true that I was
born in Ireland and that there are some things that I like about Ireland,
especially the way the people construct their sentences […]. Also, I suppose
I’ve always cherished certain memories of the time when I lived in Ireland
as a child. But my parents were English and I spent my childhood between
England and Ireland.’ [undated newspaper, cutting.]
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)