Erin ' is assumed to be personified as the mother of a great nation, pondering on the future destiny of her children, not so muc
Poets and nineteenth-century Irish nationalists used Erin in English as a romantic name for this context, along with Hibernia, Erin is the name sometimes given to the female personification of Ireland Anglicized form of EIREANN. It has been used as a given name since the middle of the 20th century This lithograph was printed in 1861; it is not a modern reproduction in any way Ireland has contributed to the British School of Art more good sculptors-indeed, many of our best -than she has painters, in proportion to the relative number of each class of artists; we cannot account for the fact, but know such to he the case, and could prove it, if necessary, by indisputable evidence. To the list of Irish sculptors whose names are already well known among us, we may add that of William James O'Doherty, as one who bids fair to occupy a niche in the temple of honour, if the works of his matured years maintain the promise of his youth- for he is still very young. That he has yet much to learn none know better than himself; but he is most ardent in the pursuit of his art, sensitive to its greatness as well as its difficulties, open to friendly counsel, and having, as we noticed in our last impression, Just received one or two important com- missions, has now embarked on his career under auspicious circumstances. Mr. O'Doherty was born in Dublin, in 1835, and having at an early age evidenced much ability and feeling for design, entered the Schools of the Royal Dublin Society, with the intention of becoming a painter; his first studies, therefore, were directed to this end. But the discernment of the late Mr. Panormo, then modelling-master of the institution, detected in the style of the youth's drawing more of the power of the sculptor than of the painter, and it was determined he should exchange the pencil for the chisel, a resolution which O'Doherty was not slow in adopting, for his enthusiasm and fervid imagination had already begun to mould the lifeless c
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