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Early Life
Jeremiah J. Hayes and Gertrude Hayes, who was from Kildare raised their only daughter, Gabriel Hayes, who was born in County Dublin on 25 August 1909. Jeremiah Hayes worked as a maintenance in the prison service, which he was an RIC member. Later worked for Board of Work as an architect. Gabriel attended secondary school in Dominican College in Eccles Street, Dublin, which was nurtured primarily by her aunt.

Gabriel later orchestrated her passion in Art at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, where she studied for one year and later left Ireland to study as a painter in Montpellier France for the next three years. She studied art at a provincial academie-des-beaux-arts in France.Gabriel Hayes. As she was in France, she ultimately studied and cultivated their native tongue. After finishing her degree in France, Gabriel later returned to Ireland where she enrolled in Dublin Metropolitan School of Arts. Gabriel would spend most of her summer holidays in France or Italy.

Gabriel would later obtain the teachers-in-training scholarship in her second year of college, where she would exhibited her five works in the Royal Hibernian Academy. Soon after, Gabriel finished her master’s certificate, in which she came first in the whole of Ireland. In the year 1932 to 1947, Gabriel began her exhibition in the Royal Hibernian Academy Art Gallery in County Dublin. Gabriel Hayes later married Sean P. O’Riordain, a lecturer in University College Cork in 1936. They both had a son and a daughter, and later moved to Newbridge Lodge, Celbridge.

In 11th April 1957 Sean O’Riodain passed away from an illness, he was fifty-two at that time. A life-sized group of the Holy Family was carved by Gabriel for the Holy Family Post-Primary School in Newbridge in 1967. Thereafter, in 1971 Gabriel was commissioned to designed the bronze decimal coins, which was to become the new Irish currency.