Treasures of an Irish suffragette and a bishop

The entire contents of Oak Park House in Letterkenny, Co Donegal, home of suffragette, painter, sculptor and photographer Norah Lyle-Smyth (1874-1963) will go under Victor Mee’s hammer in The Palace Collection sale next week.

In line with convention circa 1910, Lyle-Smyth was neither allowed by her wealthy papa to attend university nor to marry the man of ...