Anthony J. Jordan

Anthony "Tony" J. Jordan is an Irish biographer. He is a native of Ballyhaunis, County Mayo. He lives at Sandymount village in Dublin. Jordan is a graduate of NUI Maynooth, UCD and St. Patrick's College Drumcondra. He has been involved in Special Education for many years. He specialized in writing 'first' biographies. [Major John MacBride, Sean MacBride, Christy Brown, WT Cosgrave, John A. Costello] His early interest centered on the interaction between the figures of Major John MacBride/WB Yeats and Maud Gonne. On discovering the MacBride Papers in the National library of Ireland, he has made them available through his books in elucidation on MacBride from the slings and arrows fired by WB Yeats and his admirers. [The Yeats/Gonne/MacBride Triangle]

Publications

• Arthur Griffith with James Joyce and W.B. Yeats - Liberating Ireland. Westport Books. ISBN 9780957622906.
• Eamon DeValera 1882-1975 Irish: Catholic: Visionary. Westport Books. ISBN 9780952444794.
• The Good Samaritans, Memoir of a Biographer. Westport Books. ISBN 978-0-9524447-5-6
• Christy Brown's Women - a biography. Westport Books. ISBN. 0952444712.
• To Laugh or To Weep A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien. Blackwater Press. ISBN.0861214439
• Churchill a founder of modern Ireland. Westport books. ISBN. 0952444704.
• W.T. COSGRAVE 1880-1965. founder of Modern Ireland. Westport Books. isbn.0952444771
• John A Costello 1891-1976 Compromise Taoiseach. Westport Books. ISBN. 0952444787.
• Major John MacBride 1865-1916 'MacDonagh & MacBride & Connolly & Pearse'. Westport Historical Society. ISBN. 0951414828
• Willie Yeats and the Gonne-MacBrides. Westport books. ISBN. 0952444712.
• W.B.YEATS Vain, Glorious, Lout. A Maker of Modern Ireland. Westport Books. ISBN. 0952444720.
• A Jesus Biography 2015, Westport Books.2015. ISBN 9780957622913
• Christmas 1987 in The Quiet Quarter Anthology of New Irish Writing Edited by Eoin Brady, New Island 2004. ISBN 1904301622.
• William Thomas Cosgrave, in Dublin City Council and the 1916 Rising, Gibney John Ed.Dublin City Council 2016. ISBN 9781907002342.

External links

• Review of Arthur Griffith with James Joyce and WB Yeats - Liberating Ireland (paywalled)
• Review in the Sunday Independent

Articles published in Cathair na Mart - Journal of the Westport Historical Society by Anthony J. Jordan

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1997 The Case of Maude Gonne versus John MacBride - A Primary Document 1998 The Major John MacBride Manuscripts 1999 Boer War Centenary 2001 How Major John MacBride became involved in the Easter Rising 2004-5 Centenary of the Birth of Sean MacBride 2006-7 John MacBride’s account of the Irish Transvaal Brigade 2011 Eamon deValera and John MacBride 2012 Joseph MacBride 1860-1938 2013 Dr. Anthony MacBride (1866-1942) of Westport & Castlebar 2014 The Relationship between Major John MacBride and Mrs Clara Allen.

ARTICLES IN SUNDAY INDEPENDENT by Anthony J. Jordan

WHY JOYCE PUT GRIFFITH IN ‘ULYSSES’ 2 Nov 2014 Yeats and the flip side of a national icon, 26 July 2015 How Joyce bit the Yeats hand that fed him 30 August 2015,

ARTICLES IN IRISH TIMES by Anthony J. Jordan:

Leader of Free State stood firm against church pressure, Irish Times 23 Oct 2006 An Irishman’s Diary on links between Ezra Pound & Arthur Griffith, 22 October 2013 An Irishman’s Diary 18 February 2008 on John A Costello. An Irishman’s Diary on Arthur Griffith Feb 29 2013 An Irishman’s Diary on WB Yeats betrays Lady Gregory 3 August 2010 An Irishman’s Diary on relationship between Arthur Griffith & James Joyce 22 February 2012 An Irishman’s Diary on Arthur Griffith & Maud Sheehan April 2015 Obituary on Dr Mary O’Donnell a guiding light in medicine showed the way forward for Irish women 31 July 1999 In defense of a national hero Irish Times - Willie Yeats and the Gonne- MacBrides Current judicial controversy has echoes of 90-year-old conflict, 22 April 2013 IN Studies Machiavelli at the Abbey Theatre; Reflections on WB Yeats, Summer 2005. IN Doctrine and Life; 40 Years ago; John Charles McQuaid and the Founding of the Dublin Samaritans. September 2007. The Furrow Book review of - Edward Byrne 1892-1941. The Forgotten Archbishop of Dublin by Thomas J. Morrissey . June 2011.