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Algarve, a portrait and a guide
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One of the best travel books I have ever read.
- Robert Harbinson, BBC World of Books

A paragon of a travel book.
- Queen magazine

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For more info on Swift's travel books: Travel Books
For photos taked by Tim Motion for the book: Photos
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Carvoeiro

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Ink sketches by Swift for his guide books. Swift called such work 'knitting'.
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Lisbon: a portrait and a guide
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Minho: a portrait and a guide
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Patrick Swift: An Irish Painter in Portugal
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Gandon Editions, 2001. Published to coincide with the exhibitions at Palacio Foz, Lisbon, and Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, in 2002. Includes essays on Swift by Fernando de Azvedo (painter and President of Sociedade de Bellas Artes, Lisbon), Brian Fallon (arts critic to The Irish Times for 35 years) and Peter Murray (curator & Director of the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork).

Foreword to the Cork Exhibition: Crawford Gallery

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X Magazine
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X, A QUARTERLY REVIEW, Vol. 1 No. 1, Nov 1959
X, A QUARTERLY REVIEW, Vol 1 No 2, March1960


X, A QUARTERLY REVIEW, Vol. 1 No. 3, June 1960


X, A QUARTERLY REVIEW, Vol. 1 No. 4, October 1960

X, Volume Two, Number One, March 1961
Info on X: X Magazine


First Issue

X, A QUARTERLY REVIEW,Vol. 2 No. 2, August 1961


X - Volume One 1960-61 (first 4 issues), Barrie & Rockliff, London, 1961

X, Volume One, 1960-61, Wright, David and Patrick Swift edit

An Anthology from X, 1988
Patrick Swift also contrbuted to Ishmael: A Quarterly Review: Volume One, Number Three: Spring and Summer, 1972. C. H. Sisson, Josef Pieper, Guy Butler, Cliff Ashby, Michel Deguy, David Wright, Patrick Swift, Kenneth White, Francis Boylan, Patrick Kavanagh, Norman Nicholson

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1993 IMMA Retrospective Catalogue
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1993 IMMA Retrospective Catalogue
Includes essays on Swift by Anthony Cronin (poet) and Aidan Dunne (critic)

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Patrick Swift Biography
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Veronica Jane O’Mara (ed.), Patrick Swift 1927-83, with contributions by George Barker, Anthony Cronin, Lima de Freitas, Patrick Kavanagh, John McGahern, John Ryan, C.J. Fox, C.H. Sisson, Katherine Swift, David Wright(Gandon Editions, Kinsale, 1993)


Irish Arts Review:
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Birds of Southern Portugal
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Birds of Southern Portugal, Randolph Cary, 1973; illustrations by Patrick Swift; Randolph Cary had previously contributed a chapter on Algarve birds for Swift's Algarve: A Portrait And a Guide

























































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My Love to the Beaks and Tales
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My Love to the Beaks and Tales, Annie Sise, Readers Union, 1976; illustrated by Swift























An authentic picture of life in the Lake District and the birds and animals that come to live with the author, also depicts the changing nature of life in the Lakes as tourism takes over the old ways of life