Life
1892-1993; son of Mayo coach-builder; joined Volunteers, 1913; Officer Commanding in South Mayo Brigade, 1920; successfully ambushed British contingent at Tourmakeady, inflicting 10 deaths to two, May 1921; elected to Dáil, May 1921; participated in handing of authority to IRA by Second Dáil, in 1939; later worked as insurance agent; gave his blessing to the Provisional Movement, 1969, and later to Rerpublican Sinn Féin after the split of 1986.
Criticism
Ruairi Ó Brádraigh, The Story of Commt. General Tom Maguire and the Second (All Ireland) Dáil (Dublin: Irish Freedom Press 1998), 89pp.; see Martin Mansergh, ‘An Unfading Green: Mistaken Attemps to Deny Legitimacy to the New Ireland’ [review essay ], Times Literary Supplement, 10 July 1998, p.15.
Life
Author of Irish Literary Figures: Biographies in Miniature, Vol. 1. (Metropolitan Publishing Co., Dublin, 1945) 222pp.
Notes
Irish Literary Figures (1945) comprises short and sometimes informative, but equally often eccentric, biographical notices with quotations from works and from accounts by contemporaries and later admirers. The Irish authors treated are Ware, Petty, Swift, O’Carolan, Sterne, Lucas, Goldsmith, Burke, O’Connell, Moore, Haliday, John Banim, Griffin, Mangan, Mahoney, William Stokes, Ferguson, Davis, Denis Florence MacCarthy, John Elliot Cairnes, Thomas Darcy Magee, Charles J. Kickham, Robert Dwyer Joyce, George Moore, Oscar Wilde, and W. B. Yeats.
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