Henry O'Neill (illustrator)

[1] As from childhood he had evinced a talent for drawing, he was placed as a pupil in the Dublin Society's Schools in 1815.

He applied himself eagerly to his work, and carried off the first premiums in every class he competed in.

O'Neill identified himself with the popular political movements of the day, was a member of the Repeal Association, and during the imprisonment of O'Connell in Richmond gaol he painted a group of the Liberator and his fellow-prisoners, and later he did the well-known series of lithograph portraits of the Young Irelanders, Smith O'Brien and others.

Part the First, containing descriptions of the four Round Towers in the county of Dublin," published by M. H. Gill and Son, Sackville Street, 1877.

[2] O'Neill is best remembered for the creation of lithographs portraying Celtic art and crosses in Ireland.