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Frank Leah (1886-1972) was an illustrator, caricaturist and newspaper art editor based in Dublin, Ireland.[1]
He worked for multiple Dublin newspapers and periodicals including the Weekly Freeman, Evening Telegraph, and the short-lived cinema and theatre publication The Irish Limelight. In 1917 he was the animator of the early Irish animated film, Ten Days' Leave.[2]
He made portraits of many well-known Dublin personalities and famous Irish people including Michael Collins, Arthur Griffith and Éamon De Valera.[1] [3] [4]
Leah was born in 1886 in Stockport, England into a working class family, and was the eldest of many siblings. He sold his first cartoon at the age of 12 and left home at 15.