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Early life and family

Arthur James Conry Booth (born September 24, 1891) was an Irish satirist, cartoonist, and one of the proprietors of the satirical magazine ″Dublin Opinion″. Born on the south side of Dublin, in Stand Road in Sandymount, he was the youngest among four children, two elder brothers, and one sister.

"Picture of Belgrave Square sign in Rathmines, place where Arthur Booth spent his childhood."

During the time of his birth, his father, James Booth, worked as an accountant, and as a member of the docks board office of the Dublin port, while his mother, Helen Mary Booth (nèe Duggan) was originally from a family of merchants. However, from 1750 Helen and James Booth had been working in the paper and cotton milling industry while residing in Celbridge, in Kildare (Ireland). After the marriage in September 1881, the Booth family left their home in Celbridge for moving to Dublin, specifically in 34 Belgrave Square, Rathmines, until the early death of the parents left Arthur Booth and his siblings orphaned at a young age. After the death of the mother in 1894, at 35 years old, caused by Typhoid fever, followed by the death of the father in 1904 at 59 years old, caused by imminent apoplexy, Arthur Booth and his sister Margareth Booth, the younger children, were raised by their aunt Alice Duggan, at age of 19 and 21.

In that period, Arthur Booth was educated in the Dominican Convent, in Wicklow, and afterward at the Catholic University School, joining eventually the division for the management of traffic of the Dublin United Tramways Co. While his two brothers left the country to go to South Africa and his sister took part in the English noviciate of the Loreto order, Arthur Booth stayed in Ireland to build his own career as associate-owner of his satirical magazine. Arthur Booth founded ″Dublin Opinion″ at the age of 31 and since then, he accompanied Irish history for several years with pleasant humour.