Irish man Jack B Yeats' painting titled The Liffey Swim won a silver medal in the arts and culture category at the 1924 ...
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Ireland's first ever Olympic medal was won by a famous artist in an unlikely categoryInterestingly, the only other medal that Ireland won in the 1924 Olympics, was also in the arts. Poet Oliver St John Gogarty won a bronze medal in literature for his poem, Ode to the Tailteann Games.
In 1958, Betjeman’s Collected Poems were published and two years later he received the Queen’s medal for poetry and was appointed a CBE. A knighthood followed in 1969, making his appointment as poet ...
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