Frank Leah

Frank Leah was an illustrator, caricaturist and newspaper art editor based in Dublin, Ireland.

Career

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.
He made portraits of many well-known Dublin personalities and famous Irish people including Michael Collins, Arthur Griffith and Éamon De Valera.

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.