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Books About & By


* Patrick Swift 1927-83 - PS...of course, Veronica O'Mara (ed.), Gandon Editions, Kinsale, 1993;  contributions by George Barker, Anthony Cronin, Lima de Freitas, Patrick Kavanagh, John McGahern, John Ryan, Brian Higgins, C.H. Sisson, Katherine Swift, David Wright, and Martin Green

* An Anthology from X, selected by David Wright (Oxford University Press, 1988)

* Patrick Swift 1927-83, Catalogue, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 1993 (ISBN 1-873654-12-X ); essays by Anthony Cronin (poet) and Aidan Dunne (art critic)

* Patrick Swift: An Irish Painter in Portugal (Gandon Editions, 2001); includes essays on Swift by Fernando de Azvedo (painter and President of Sociedade de Bellas Artes, Lisbon), Peter Murray (Director Crawford Gallery, Cork) and Brian Fallon's (chief arts critic to The Irish Times for 35 years) 'Patrick Swift and Irish art'

* Dictionary of Irish Artists (2002), Theo Snoddy, Merlin Publishing, Dublin, p.640

* X, Volume 1, Numbers 1-4, November 1959-October 1960, limited to 800 copies (Barrie & Rockliff 1961)

* The Moderns, IMMA, Irish artists and writers- the development of modern Ireland through its arts in the period from the 1900s to 1970s (IMMA 2011)

* Patrick Swift and David Wright produced three books on Portugal, all illustrated by Swift: Algarve: a portrait and a guide (Barrie & Rockliff, London 1965); Minho: a portrait and a guide (Barrie & Rockliff, London 1968); Lisbon: a portrait and a guide (Barrie & Rockliff, London 1971)

* Selected Poems, Homage to George Barker (On his Sixtieth Birthday), John Heath-Stubbs & Martin Green, -eds, 1973, Martin Brian & O'Keefe Ltd (ISBN 0856161299; ISBN 0-85616-200-0); includes a portrait of Barker by Swift and Swift's essay on Barker, 'Prolegomenon to George Barker'


Relating to Swift


* Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography, Antoinette Quinn (Gill & Macmillan Ltd 2003)

* The Chameleon Poet: A Life of George Barker, Robert Fraser (Jonathan Cape, 2001)

* Young John McGahern: Becoming a Novelist, Denis Sampson (Oxford University Press 2012)

* Love Of The World, John McGahern, Essays, Edited by Stanley van der Ziel (Faber and Faber 2009); 'The Bird Swift' by McGahern

* Remembering How We Stood, John Ryan (Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 1975; Lilliput Press Ltd 1987 & 2009)

* Edward McGuire - RHA, Brian Fallon (Irish Academic Press, 1991)

* Dead as Doornails, Anthony Cronin (Dolmen Press, Dublin, 1976)

* On the Look-out, CH Sisson (Carcanet Press, Manchester, 1989)

* Patrick Kavanagh Sacred Keeper, Peter Kavanagh, The Goldsmith Press, Newbridge, 1979

* Digswell: A Matter Done - the story of the Digswell Arts Trust, booklet, ND

* Collected Poems, C.H. Sisson (Carcanet Press Ltd; 2nd Revised Edition, 27 Aug 1998); includes a poem for Swift

* Selected Poems, David Wright, Carcanet Press Ltd (1 July 1988), ISBN 0-85635-753-7, ISBN 978-0-85635-753-4; includes the poem 'Images for a Painter'

* Jacques d' Arribehaude: Une saison à Cadix (1997); L’Encre du salut (1998); Un français libre, journal 1960-1968 (2000)

* The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Smart, David Gascoyne (ed.) (Paladin, London, 1992)

* By Heart - The Life of Elizabeth Smart, Rosemary Sullivan (Flamingo, London, 1992)

* Elizabeth Smart: On the side of the angels, edited by Alice van Wart (Harper-Collins, London, 1994)

* Night Thoughts: The Surreal Life of the Poet David Gascoyne, Robert Fraser (OUP 2012)



Illustrated by Swift


* The Canterbury tales, translated into modern English prose by David Wright (London, Harris,1964); endpapers by Swift

* A Patrick Kavanagh Anthology, Platt, Eugene Robert, Ed. (Commedia Publishing Co., Dublin, 1973); includes a portrait of Kavanagh by Swift

* Martello Spring 1984, Maureen Charlton & John Stafford (Blackrock: Ardmore Records, 1984); illustrated with 6 coloured plates by Irish artists Walter Osborne, Patrick Swift & R.B. Beechey

* Dead as Doornails, Anthony Cronin (Dolmen Press, Dublin, 1976); portrait of Anthony Cronin

* My Love to the Beaks and Tails, Annie Sise, (Readers Union, 1976, ISBN 0-575-01955-7); illustrations by Swift

* Patrick Swift and David Wright produced three books on Portugal, all illustrated by Swift: Algarve: a portrait and a guide(Barrie & Rockliff, London 1965); Minho: a portrait and a guide (Barrie & Rockliff, London 1968); Lisbon: a portrait and a guide (Barrie & Rockliff, London 1971)

* The Hard Life, Flann O’Brien, German translation by Heinrich Böll, Das harte Leben, 1966; illustrated by Patrick Swift

* Break in the Sun, David Thomson (Barrie & Rockliff, 1965); dusk jacket designed by Swift

* (A Guide to) Birds of Southern Portugal, Randolph Cary, illustrated by Swift (Barrie & Rockliff, London, 1973); Randolph Cary had previously contributed a chapter on birds to Swift's Algarve: a portrait and a guide (Barrie & Rockliff, 1965)


Catalogues

* The Moderns, IMMA, Irish artists and writers- the development of modern Ireland through its arts in the period from the 1900s to 1970s (IMMA, 2011, ISBN: 978-1-907020-49-0)

* Patrick Swift 1927-83, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 1993 (ISBN 1-873654-12-X ); essays on Swift by Anthony Cronin (poet) and Aidan Dunne (art critic)

* Pinturas de Patrick Swift, 1974; catalogue for Swift's 1974 exhibition in Lisbon which includes an essay on Swift by Lima de Freitas

* ROSC, Irish Imagination, 1971; Swift's portrait of Patrick Kavanagh

* Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin, 1954; Exhibition: drawings, watercolours, gouache, ceramics [catalogue for an exhibition, 24th November - 4th December]; artists include: Norah McGuinness, Gerard Dillon, George Campbell, Patrick Scott, Colin Middleton,  Patrick Swift (five watercolours), and Hilary Heron; held by Trinity College Dublin

* Paintings by Patrick Swift at the Victor Waddington Galleries, 8 South Anne Street, Dublin, 1952 (copy held at the National Library of Ireland)

* IELA (Irish Exhibition of Living Art) 1950, 51, 52, 54, 56


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Articles About / Relating to Swift
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* 'Patrick Swift', John Ryan, Envoy: A Review of Literature and Art, vol 5/20, July 1951

* 'Recent Irish Painting - The Irish Exhibition of Living Art 1950', Edward Sheehy, Envoy, vol.3 no.10, Sept 1950

* 'Young artist of promise', G.H.G, The Irish Times, Oct 3, 1952

* 'Painters put life into a dull week', The Irish Times, Jan 11, 1952; John Ryan and Patrick Swift in a debate about painting on Irish Radio

* 'Exhibition of painting', Sunday Independent, Oct 05, 1952

* 'AN IRISHMAN'S DIARY' - QUIDNUNC (Seamus Kelly), The Irish Times, Oct 11, 1952

* 'Art: Life with a Shillelagh', Time Magazine, Oct 20, 1952 Link

* 'Art in Ireland Review'(supplement in The Irish Times), GH Gray, Dec 1952

* Two unpublished reviews of Swift's 1952 Waddington exhibition by James White (art historian and probably the foremost Irish art critic of his day; Director of the National Gallery of Ireland 1968-80)

* 'low-priced works of art impress' (Waddington exhibition of Drawings, watercolours, gouache, ceramics), G.H.G., The Irish Times, Nov 25, 1954

* 'IELA exhibition', G.H.G., The Irish Times, Aug 21, 1956

* 'Patrick Swift dies in Portugal', The Irish Times, July 20, 1983

* 'Swift and the fifties', Brian Fallon, The Irish Times, July 28, 1983

* 'The National College of Art under Keating and MacGonigal', John Turpin, The GPA Irish Arts Review Yearbook, Dublin, 1988

* 'The Fall and Rise of Patrick Swift', Brian Fallon, The Irish Times, 11 June 1992

* 'Patrick Swift and Irish Art', Brian Fallon, Portfolio 2 - Modern Irish Arts Review, Gandon Editions, Cork, 1993

* 'The lost hope of Irish art', Aidan Dunne, , The Sunday Tribune, Nov 28, 1993

* 'The legacy of Patrick Swift', Brian Fallon, The Irish Times, Dec 2, 1993

* 'A Memoir of George Barker', Martin Green, London Magazine, Oct/Nov, Volume 33 / Numbers 7 & 8, 1993

* 'Patrick Swift 1927-83', Wanda Ryan Smolin, Irish Arts Review, 1994 Link

* 'All for art' (unveiling of a plaque on Hatch Street), The Irish Times, Thu 10 Oct, 1998

* PN Review: Patrick Swift Obituary, PN Review 34, Volume 10 Number 2, November - December 1983Link; Fourteen Letters (to David Wright), C.H. Sisson, PN Review 39, Volume 11 Number 1, July - August 1984 Link ; Patrick Swift on David Wright, PN Review 14, Volume 6 Number 6, July - August 1980

* 'Lucian Freud: Prophet of Discomfort', Mic Moroney, Irish Arts Review, 2007 Link

X magazine

* 'Magazines and the cold war', Philip Toynbee, The Observer, Dec 3, 1961

* 'More art than letters', Malcolm Bradbury, The Guardian, Dec 19, 1961

* 'Out of the Soho jungle', Anthony Thwaite, The Observer, Sept 4, 1988

* 'Poésie sans frontières', Michael Schmidt, The Guardian, Saturday 15 July 2006


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Articles by Swift
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* ‘Nano Reid’, Envoy – A Review of Literature and Art (March 1950)

* ‘The Artist Speaks’, Envoy, vol. 4, no. 15 (Feb 1951)

* ‘Painting – The RHA Exhibition’, The Bell, vol. 17, no. 13 (June 1951)

* ‘Some notes on Caravaggio’, Nimbus, vol. 3, No. 4  (Winter 1956)

* ‘Official Art & The Modern Painter’ (under the pseudonym James Mahon), X: A Quarterly Review, vol. I, no. I (November 1959); An Anthology from X (OUP 1988)

* ‘Prolegomenon to George Barker’, X, vol. 1, no. 3 (June 1960);  John Heath-Stubbs and Martin Green (eds) Homage to George Barker on his 60th Birthday (Martin Brian & O’Keefe, London, 1973)

* ‘The Painter in the Press’ (under the pseudonym James Mahon ), X, vol. I, no. 4 (October 1960); An Anthology from X (OUP 1988)

* ‘Mob Morals and the Art of loving Art’, X , vol. 2, no. 2 (August 1961); An Anthology from X (OUP 1988)

* ‘By Way of Preface’ (from a 'Report to the Committee of Cultural Relations, Dept of External Affairs, on a Year spent in Italy in the study of Art & Painting', 1955), Gandon Editions Biography, 1993

* 'David Wright', PN Review 14, vol. 6,  no. 6 (July - August 1980)

* 'The Bomberg Papers', edited by Swift, X, vol. 1, no. 3 (June 1960); An Anthology from X (OUP 1988)


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