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The Brothers Hickey– Renaissance Men of Capel Street
In the 1750s, Noah Hickey ran a sweetshop on Capel Street in Georgian Dublin where he and his wife Anne raised two remarkable sons, John and Thomas. John Hickey, the elder boy, became Edmund Burke’s Favourite Sculptor, while Thomas was to become one of the finest European artists who worked in British India.