Anthony J. Jordan

Anthony "Tony" J. Jordan is an Irish biographer. He is a native of Ballyhaunis, County Mayo. .[1] Jordan is a graduate of NUI Maynooth, University College Dublin, and St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra. He initially specialized in writing 'first' biographies. [Major John MacBride, Sean MacBride, Christy Brown, WT Cosgrave, John A. Costello,[2007-95244476X] His early interest centered on the interaction between the figures of Major John MacBride/WB Yeats and Maud Gonne.{2000}} 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 criticism by WB Yeats and his admirers. [The Yeats/Gonne/MacBride Triangle]2000.

Publications
  • " Tell my Mother I... A Novel of Adoption". isbn 9780957622937 2020
  • " MAUD GONNE'S MEN " Westport Books {isbn } 9780957622944 2018.
  • James Joyce Unplugged Westport Books ISBN 9780957622920 2017
  • " William Thomas Cosgrave, in Dublin City Council and the 1916 Rising, Gibney John Ed.Dublin City Council 2016. ISBN 9781907002342
  • A Jesus Biography 2015 Westport Books ISBN 9780957622913 2015
  • Arthur Griffith with James Joyce and W.B. Yeats – Liberating Ireland. Westport Books. ISBN 9780957622906. 2013.
  • Eamon DeValera 1882–1975 Irish: Catholic: Visionary. Westport Books. ISBN 9780952444794. 2010.
  • The Good Samaritans, Memoir of a Biographer. Westport Books. ISBN 978-0-9524447-5-6 2008.* '
  • John A Costello 1891–1976 Compromise Taoiseach. Westport Books. ISBN 9780952444787 2007.
  • ' WT Cosgrave A Founder of Modern Ireland. Westport Books. ISBN 0952444771 2006.
  • 'Christmas 1987 in The Quiet Quarter Anthology of New Irish Writing Edited by Eoin Brady, New Island 2004. ISBN 1904301622.
  • W.B.YEATS Vain, Glorious Lout. A Maker of Modern Ireland. Westport Books. ISBN 0952444720. 2003.
  • The Yeats/Gonne/MacBride Triangle Westport Books ISBN 0952444747 2000.
  • Christy Brown's Women – a biography. Westport Books. ISBN 0952444712 1998
  • 'Willie Yeats and the Gonne-MacBrides. Westport Books. ISBN 0952444712. 1997
  • Churchill a founder of modern Ireland. Westport Books. ISBN 0952444704. 1995.
  • To Laugh or To Weep A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien. Blackwater Press. ISBN 0861214439 1994
  • Sean A Biography of Sean MacBride Blackwater Press. ISBN 0861214439 1992
  • Major John MacBride 1865–1916 MacDonagh & MacBride & Connolly & Pearse. Westport Historical Society. 1991 ISBN 0951414828

References
  1. Jordan, Anthony (17 July 2014). JAMES JOYCE & WB YEATS WITH ARTHUR GRIFFITH – LIBERATING IRELAND. westportbooks@yahoo.co.uk. p. back cover. ISBN 9780957622906.
  • Review of Arthur Griffith with James Joyce and WB Yeats – Liberating Ireland (paywalled)
  • Review in the Sunday Independent
  • Review of 'Churchill' in Irish News 22/8/1995 by Andrew Boyd
  • Review of 'Sean MacBride' in Sunday Tribune 6 March 1994 by Helen Callanan
  • Review of 'Major John MacBride' in Studies summer 1993 by Tom Fogarty.
  • Review of 'John A Costello' in Sunday Independent 18 November 2007.
  • Review of 'Jesus" in Irish Catholic 22 October 2015 by J. Anthony Gaughan.
  • Ireland's rejection of Joyce was cause of bitterness for his wife. Anthony J. Jordan Sunday Independent 18/06/2017.
  • Why Joyce put Griffith in 'Ulysses' Anthony J. Jordan Sunday Independent. 2 11/2014.
  • Costello was not a lapdog of church Hierarchy Anthony J. Jordan Irish Times 02/08/2008.
  • How Joyce bit the Yeats hand that fed him Anthony J. Jordan Sunday Independent 02/02/2108.
  • 'Yeats and the flip side of a national icon by Anthony J Jordan Sunday Independent 27/07/2015.
  • 'Pride in father's service to the nation inspired a gentleman of Irish Politics Sunday Independent 30/08/2017
  • Book review of "The Adulterous Muse" [ by Adrain Frazier,] by Anthony J Jordan, in History Ireland 12.2017.
  • 'Please wire details about Joyce's death. If possible find out if he died a Catholic'Irish Times [Books} 13/01/2018.
  • 'The English woman who bankrolled James Joyce' irishtimes.com — November 29 2019
  • 'We owe James Joyce a final resting place in Dublin' irishtimes.com — October 28 2019
  • 'Remains of literary giant Joyce are still a bone of contention' independent.ie — 16 June 2019
  • 'Remembering James Joyce, 77 years to the day after his death' irishtimes.com — January 13 2018
  • 'James Joyce, Irish rebel' irishtimes.com — June 16 2017
  • 'How Joyce bit the Yeats hand that fed him' Independent.ie— 22/02/2008.
  • 'Dear Baby, Last night and this morning were hectic times, for your mother especially, and also for me'. independent.ie — July 21, 1970.




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