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Early life, family, and education

Patrick Hickey was remembered as a famous Irish painter, architect, printmaker, and teacher who was born on the 27 April 1927 in Bannu, British India, which is now a part of Pakistan. His father was involved in the Indian Army (1st Punjab Regiment) as a colonel. . Althoug​​h Hickey discovered early on that he had a passion for art, his family had no history of being involved in that industry. As his family moved from Bannu to Bedford in England, he began his education in Yorkshire at Ampleforth College from 1939 to 1945. Despite having a passion for art and paintings, Hickey only wanted to paint for the first time after he had received an acceptable and stable education, specifically because of the financial risks of that activity and the lack of artistic education and tools that were provided in Ireland at that time. Therefore, Patrick Hickey moved to Ireland in 1948 to study Italian, architecture, and history of art in University College Dublin in the south of Dublin.

University College Dublin where Patrick Hickey graduated from in 1954

He graduated in 1954 from the agricultural school of UCD and then went to Wicklow to work with Irish architect Micheal Scott before he painted landscapes for the first time. Hickey decided to begin selling his painting after graduating from UCD to begin his artistic career at an early age. In order to finish his education, Patrick Hickey succeeded in winning a scholarship to study printmaking, which consists of creating designs by printing them, for eight months in an Italian university in Urbino called the “Scuola del Libro". The specific types of printmaking he learned in the university were “lithography” and “etching”. As a result of this year abroad, Hickey was able to show the skills he learnt in Urbino to other aspiring Irish artists such as Anne Yeats or Liam Miller, who eventually supported his artistic career.