George Wallace

George Wallace (1920-2009) is probably best remembered as a teacher and artist. He was born in 1920 at Sandycove south of Dublin, Ireland, and grew up nearby in Dalkey. Educated at St. Columba’s College, he went on to read philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin (1939-44). On leaving Ireland after the war with his wife Margaret Howe, he held a temporary teaching post at Radley College in England, and continued his studies at the West of England College of Art in Bristol. For the next eight years with a growing family, he taught at the Falmouth School of Art in Cornwall. In 1957 he emigrated to Canada, where he taught at Ryerson Polytechnic, Toronto, and Blakelock High School, Oakville, before moving to McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.