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Cecil Maguire

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Cecil Maguire (1930-2020) was an Irish landscape and figure painter.

Maguire was born in Lurgan, County Armagh.[1] He graduated from QUB in 1951 and took up an English teaching post in Lurgan College. He became a member of the RUA in 1974.

In 1981 he retired from teaching to concentrate on painting and travelling.

He spent a great part of each year in Roundstone, Connemara.

  1. ^ "Death of celebrated landscape painter Cecil Maguire". www.irishtimes.com. Retrieved 14 May 2020.