In 1921 Conn became a commercial artist at lithographic printing company W. & G. Baird Ltd. From 1936 he was a staff artist for The Belfast Telegraph and its sports sister paper Ireland's Saturday Night, drawing a regular cartoon, "The Doings of Larry O'Hooligan", for the latter. He drew a monthly full-page illustration (two pages in the Christmas edition) for Dublin Opinion, sometimes satirical, sometimes observational scenes of rural and urban Irish life, sometimes ghostly gothic scenes, and also contributed spot cartoons. In 1951 he illustrated a novella, The Whole Story of the X. Y. Z., by Brinsley McNamara. He created colour posters for Northern Ireland Railways, exhibited his black and white drawings and watercolours, and was a member of the Ulster Arts Club and the Royal Ulster Acad
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| - In 1921 Conn became a commercial artist at lithographic printing company W. & G. Baird Ltd. From 1936 he was a staff artist for The Belfast Telegraph and its sports sister paper Ireland's Saturday Night, drawing a regular cartoon, "The Doings of Larry O'Hooligan", for the latter. He drew a monthly full-page illustration (two pages in the Christmas edition) for Dublin Opinion, sometimes satirical, sometimes observational scenes of rural and urban Irish life, sometimes ghostly gothic scenes, and also contributed spot cartoons. In 1951 he illustrated a novella, The Whole Story of the X. Y. Z., by Brinsley McNamara. He created colour posters for Northern Ireland Railways, exhibited his black and white drawings and watercolours, and was a member of the Ulster Arts Club and the Royal Ulster Acad
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| - In 1921 Conn became a commercial artist at lithographic printing company W. & G. Baird Ltd. From 1936 he was a staff artist for The Belfast Telegraph and its sports sister paper Ireland's Saturday Night, drawing a regular cartoon, "The Doings of Larry O'Hooligan", for the latter. He drew a monthly full-page illustration (two pages in the Christmas edition) for Dublin Opinion, sometimes satirical, sometimes observational scenes of rural and urban Irish life, sometimes ghostly gothic scenes, and also contributed spot cartoons. In 1951 he illustrated a novella, The Whole Story of the X. Y. Z., by Brinsley McNamara. He created colour posters for Northern Ireland Railways, exhibited his black and white drawings and watercolours, and was a member of the Ulster Arts Club and the Royal Ulster Academy. He died on 25 August 1973, aged 78, after a three year illness. At the time of his death he was living at 7 Stranmillis Gardens, Belfast. He was a lifelong bachelor.
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