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Cecil Maguire RHA RUA (b.1930)
Claddagh Quay, Galway
Oil on board, 60 x 45cm (23¾ x 17½”)
Signed and dated (19)’82
€3,000 - 5,000
Born in Lurgan in 1930 Maguire graduated from Queen’s University Belfast in
1951. He then took an English teaching post at Lurgan College. He became a
member of the Royal Ulster Academy in 1974, winning both the Silver Medal
(1964, 1967) and the Gold Medal there (1993). In 1971 he began exhibiting at
the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin and between 1982 and 1992 he exhib-
ited at the Oriel Gallery in Dublin in a series of solo exhibitions. In 1981 he re-
tired from teaching at Lurgan College to concentrate on painting and travelling.
Maguire now divides his time between Italy, Belfast and the West of Ireland but
lives and works for a great part of the year in Roundstone, Connemara - an area that
has always been the inspiration for much of his work.