Kathleen Ryan (8 September 1922 â€" 11 December 1985) was an Irish
actress.She was born in Dublin, Ireland of Tipperary parentage and
appeared in British and Hollywood films between 1947 and 1957. In
2020, she was listed as number 40 on The Irish Times's list of
Ireland's greatest film actors.Kathleen Ryan was one of the eight
children of Séamus Ryan, a member of Seanad Éireann and his wife
Agnes Ryan née Harding who came from Kilfeacle and Solohead
respectively in County Tipperary and who were Republican activists
during the Irish War of Independence. They opened a shop in Parnell
Street, Dublin in the 1920s which was the first of 36 outlets which
were known as "The Monument Creameries". The family lived at Burton
Hall, near Leopardstown Racecourse in the Dublin suburb of Foxrock.
Her father died in 1933, shortly after he had been elected to
Ireland's senate. Her brother was John Ryan, an artist and man of
letters in bohemian Dublin of the 1940s and 1950s, who was a friend
and benefactor of a number of struggling writers in the post-war era,
such as Patrick Kavanagh. He started and edited a short-lived literary
magazine entitled Envoy. Among her other siblings were Fr. Vincent
(Séamus) (1930â€"2005), a Benedictine priest at Glenstal Abbey,
Sister à de of the Convent of The Sacred Heart, Mount Anville, Dublin,
Oonagh (who married the Irish artist Patrick Swift), Cora who married
the politician, Seán Dunne, T.D. When Kathleen was an undergraduate
at University College Dublin, she was introduced to the future Dr.
Dermod Devane of Limerick. They were married in the society wedding of
1944 and the couple had three children, but the marriage was annulled
in 1958.Ryan's schooling came in convents and universities.
actress.She was born in Dublin, Ireland of Tipperary parentage and
appeared in British and Hollywood films between 1947 and 1957. In
2020, she was listed as number 40 on The Irish Times's list of
Ireland's greatest film actors.Kathleen Ryan was one of the eight
children of Séamus Ryan, a member of Seanad Éireann and his wife
Agnes Ryan née Harding who came from Kilfeacle and Solohead
respectively in County Tipperary and who were Republican activists
during the Irish War of Independence. They opened a shop in Parnell
Street, Dublin in the 1920s which was the first of 36 outlets which
were known as "The Monument Creameries". The family lived at Burton
Hall, near Leopardstown Racecourse in the Dublin suburb of Foxrock.
Her father died in 1933, shortly after he had been elected to
Ireland's senate. Her brother was John Ryan, an artist and man of
letters in bohemian Dublin of the 1940s and 1950s, who was a friend
and benefactor of a number of struggling writers in the post-war era,
such as Patrick Kavanagh. He started and edited a short-lived literary
magazine entitled Envoy. Among her other siblings were Fr. Vincent
(Séamus) (1930â€"2005), a Benedictine priest at Glenstal Abbey,
Sister à de of the Convent of The Sacred Heart, Mount Anville, Dublin,
Oonagh (who married the Irish artist Patrick Swift), Cora who married
the politician, Seán Dunne, T.D. When Kathleen was an undergraduate
at University College Dublin, she was introduced to the future Dr.
Dermod Devane of Limerick. They were married in the society wedding of
1944 and the couple had three children, but the marriage was annulled
in 1958.Ryan's schooling came in convents and universities.
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