Adam's IMPORTANT IRISH ART 1 MARCH 2023

www.adams.ie Important Irish Art | 1 March 2023 23 11 EDWARD MCGUIRE RHA (1932 - 1986) Paul Durcan (1981) Oil on board, 39 x 29.5cm (151/4 x 111”) Signed with initials and dated (19)’81 Provenance: From the Collection of Patrick MacEntee SC € 4,000 - 6,000 Born in 1944, the contemporary poet, Paul Durcan was born and grew up in Dublin and in Co. Mayo. Through his mother, Sheila MacBride Durcan, he is a great-nephew of both Maud Gonne and John MacBride, thus cousin of Sean MacBride. He studied law and economics at University College Dublin and after a hiatus due to ill-health he resumed his academic studies at UCC, stud- ying Archaeology and Medieval History. A prolific, distinguished and popular poet, Durcan’s Daddy, Daddy (1990) was awarded the Whitbread Book Award for poetry and was joint winner of the 1995 Heinemann Award, among other important awards. Paul Durcan lives in Dublin.