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Edward McGuire RHA (1932 - 1986) John Jordan (1982) Oil on board, 60 x 44cm (23½ x 17¼) Signed with initials and dated (19)’82 Also signed, inscribed and dated verso Provenance: From the Collection of Patrick MacEntee SC John Jordan, the poet, critic and short-story writer was born in Dublin in 1930 and was educated at Synge Street CBS, University College Dublin and Pembroke College, Oxford. He taught at UCD, Memorial University in Newfoundland and at Princeton. A member of Aosda?a, Jordan was described by MacDara Woods of Poetry Ireland ‘When John Jordan died in 1988 he had forty years of literary endeavour and achievement behind him as editor, critic, story-teller, and poet, and as academic, broadcaster, and man of the Theatre. And the very variety of the disciplines makes it hard to achieve a clear view of any one of them: when you focus on any one thing another stands out.’