The February miscellany will be on Tuesday, February 26th at 11 a.m. in the Teachers Club.  We are delighted to have author Tony Jordan to speak about his remarkable career and some of the wonderful biographies that he has written.  His biographies feature many famous Irish historical figures including Major John MacBride, Conor Cruise O’Brien, Christy Brown and many others.  He has written four books on the theme of the Yeats/Gonne/MacBride triangle.  He has written an autobiography entitled, “The Good Samaritans – Memoir of A Biographer”.  He has a great love of poetry, especially that of W B Yeats and the poets of the First World War, especially Wilfred Owen

Tony Jordan writes under the name of Anthony J. Jordan.

 In 1972 he received notice from the English publisher ‘Michael Joseph’ that his first novel

“was something of a freak. In the first place, I find it incredible that it has (apparently) been written by a man. The assumption of a female person – not to my mind, a particularly attractive one – is totally convincing…the story does grip”.

John McGahern and appointment as Principal teacher intervened to stop Tony continuing with writing.  In 1988 Daniel Day-Lewis and Christy Brown intervened to restart Tony’s writing career. This lead to some 13 biographical works, including an Autobiography, with another one to appear this autumn. He will talk about some of these matters.

The covers of most of his books can be seen below.