Conor’s background

William Conor was born into a working-class North Belfast Protestant family in 1881. His father was a sheet-metal worker and later a gas fitter. At national school his artistic ability was noticed and he won a place at the government school of design in Belfast, where he trained as a commercial artist, later being employed ... Read more

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