{"id":183936,"date":"2025-12-10T01:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/183936\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T01:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:21:09","slug":"pedestrian-killed-in-road-incident-in-carlow-named-as-well-known-artist-philippa-bayliss-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/183936\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian killed in road incident in Carlow named as well-known artist Philippa Bayliss \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A female pedestrian who died in road traffic incident in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/carlow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/carlow\/\">Co Carlow<\/a> has been named locally as well-known artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/philippa-bayliss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/philippa-bayliss\/\">Philippa Bayliss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ms Bayliss (85), originally from Kilkenny, was living in Myshall village for almost 20 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed and emergency services were alerted to the incident, involving a car and a pedestrian at around 5.30pm on Monday. Ms Bayliss was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The coroner has been notified and  the body was removed to University Hospital Waterford (UHW) where a post-mortem examination will take place in due course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The mother-of-three sons was born in Kilkenny in 1940 and undertook her formal training as a painter at The Beam Shaw School of painting in London from 1961 to 1965 where Ms Bayliss became involved in the developing cultural movement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She also studied under Bernard Dunstan, Maurice de Sausmarez, Peter Greenham and Marc Vaux and Jane Dowling for printmaking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ms Bayliss became the first curator of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/castletown-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/castletown-house\/\">Castletown House<\/a> and had her paintings included in public collections in the Bank of Ireland, AIB Group, The Butler Gallery, The Mater Private Hospital, St Vincent\u2019s Hospital, Dublin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Her paintings were also represented in private collections worldwide and she was a member of the Artists Association of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Throughout her life Ms Bayliss lived in Ireland, England, Sri Lanka, USA, Vienna, France, Mexico and Sicily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Local independent councillor Charlie Murphy expressed his \u201cdeep sympathy and that of the community\u201d to her family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cPhilippa was highly respected and known for her generosity with her time and her generosity to the community. What happened is very tragic for her family and our community. She will be sadly missed by us all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The scene is being examined for technical purposes pending by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed this collision to contact them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Any road users who may have camera footage (including dash-cam) and were travelling in the area between 5pm and 5.30pm on Monday, are asked to make this footage available to investigating Garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Anyone with information is asked to contact Carlow Garda Station on (059) 9136620, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A female pedestrian who died in road traffic incident in Co Carlow has been named locally as well-known&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16665,61,60,43,11318],"class_list":["post-183936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-carlow","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-road-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}