Sheelagh Flanagan (25 December 1925 – 3 May 2018) was a Northern Irish actress, costume designer, artist's agent, gallery owner and peace activist.
She left school at the age of fourteen and joined the civil service where she was later promoted to become private secretary to Northern Ireland's Attorney General.
[1] Flanagan's early career and outlook was influenced by her neighbours John and Ruby Hewitt, when they lived at Mount Charles, off Botanic Avenue in Belfast.
The exhibition at Queen's University consisted of donated works from thirty artists including her husband, Gerard Dillon, William Scott and Graham Gingles, Mercy Hunter, Carolyn Mulholland and Cherith McKinstry.
The inaugural exhibition showed the works of F. E. McWilliam, William Scott, George Campbell, Gerard Dillon, Norah McGuinness and Colin Middleton amongst a dozen artists.
[3] She was close friends with many of Ulster's literary, dramatic and visual artists of the fifties and sixties, including John Hewitt, Seamus Heaney and Jimmy Ellis.