Arthur Booth (cartoonist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
About Arthur Booth (cartoonist)
- Arthur James Conry Booth (1892–1926) was an Irish cartoonist and one of the founders of the satirical magazine Dublin Opinion.
- Born in Dublin, he was educated at the Catholic University School and joined the Dublin United Transport Company.
- Through his interest in amateur dramatics, he met fellow cartoonist Charles E.
- Kelly and writer Thomas J.
- Collins, and decided to start a humorous journal.
- Booth resigned his job to become editor, and drew the covers as well as interior cartoons.Dublin Opinion was launched on 1 March 1922, on the eve of the Irish Civil War, and within four years it was selling 40,000 per issue.
- Booths cartoons tended to be sombre, concentrating on the destruction caused by the Civil War and the unemployment that followed.
- He died of pneumonia at the age of 33, leaving a widow and three children.
- Thereafter, Kelly and Collins became joint editors of Dublin Opinion.
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