Anthony "Tony" J. Jordan is an Irish biographer. He is a native of
Ballyhaunis
Ballyhaunis () is a town in County Mayo, Ireland. It is at the crossroads of the N60 and N83 National secondary roads and on the railway line linking Dublin to Westport and Ballina.
It is thought that the town grew up around St Mary's Augu ...
, County Mayo.
Jordan is a graduate of
NUI Maynooth
The National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM; ga, Ollscoil na hÉireann Mhá Nuad), commonly known as Maynooth University (MU), is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. It w ...
,
University College Dublin
University College Dublin (commonly referred to as UCD) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath) is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a member institution of the National University of Ireland. With 33,284 student ...
, and
St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra
St Patrick's College ( ga, Coláiste Phádraig), often known as St Pat's, was a third level institution in Ireland, the leading function of which was as the country's largest primary teacher training college, which had at one time up to 2,000 s ...
. He initially specialized in writing 'first' biographies. His early interest centered on the interaction between the figures of Major John MacBride, W. B. Yeats, and Maud Gonne. After discovering the MacBride Papers in the
National Library of Ireland
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, he has made them available through his books in elucidation on MacBride from the criticism by W. B. Yeats and his admirers.
Publications
* ''Tell my Mother I... A Novel of Adoption''. 2020
* ''MAUD GONNE'S MEN'' Westport Books 2018.
* ''James Joyce Unplugged'' Westport Books 2017
* "William Thomas Cosgrave", in ''Dublin City Council and the 1916 Rising'', Gibney John Ed. Dublin City Council 2016.
* ''A Jesus Biography'' 2015 Westport Books 2015
* ''Arthur Griffith with James Joyce and W.B. Yeats – Liberating Ireland''. Westport Books. . 2013.
* ''Eamon DeValera 1882–1975 Irish: Catholic: Visionary''. Westport Books. . 2010.
* ''The Good Samaritans, Memoir of a Biographer''. Westport Books. 2008.* '
* ''John A Costello 1891–1976 Compromise Taoiseach''. Westport Books. 2007.
* ''WT Cosgrave A Founder of Modern Ireland''. Westport Books. 2006.
* "Christmas 1987 in The Quiet Quarter" ''Anthology of New Irish Writing'' Edited by Eoin Brady, New Island 2004. .
* ''W.B. YEATS Vain, Glorious Lout. A Maker of Modern Ireland''. Westport Books. . 2003.
* ''The Yeats/Gonne/MacBride Triangle'' Westport Books 2000.
* ''Christy Brown's Women – a biography''. Westport Books. 1998
* ''Willie Yeats and the Gonne-MacBrides''. Westport Books. . 1997
* ''Churchill a founder of modern Ireland''. Westport Books. . 1995.
* ''To Laugh or To Weep A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien''. Blackwater Press. 1994
* ''Sean A Biography of Sean MacBride'' Blackwater Press. 1992
* Major John MacBride 1865–1916 ''MacDonagh & MacBride & Connolly & Pearse''. Westport Historical Society. 1991
References
External links
Review of Arthur Griffith with James Joyce and WB Yeats – Liberating Ireland (paywalled)
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Irish biographers
Irish male non-fiction writers
21st-century Irish male writers
Male biographers
Writers from County Mayo
People from Ballyhaunis
Alumni of University College Dublin
Alumni of St Patrick's College, Dublin
Alumni of Maynooth University