Cecil Maguire
In the 1950s Maguire took a teaching post at Lurgan College as Senior English Master. He had previously spent time with Maurice C. Wilks who had taken him on painting trips in Cushendun. Encouraged by this experience he enrolled in evening art classes and soon afterwards became an active member of the Lurgan Art Club. By the early 1960s he was exhibiting regularly with the RUA, becoming an Associate there in 1967 and a full member in 1974. He resigned from Lurgan College in 1981 and has painted full-time ever since. Much of his work shows a passion for the West of Ireland capturing scenes of Connemara landscapes, harbours and horse fairs. His work is in such collections as The United Nations Headquarters, New York, The Ulster Museum, Belfast, Aer Rianta, Dublin and Ulster Bank. He has had many exhibitions showing regularly at the Kenny Art Gallery, Galway, the Bell Gallery, Belfast and the Oriel Gallery, Dublin. He won the RUA Perpetual Gold Medal in 1993. Cecil Maguire died in May 2020.
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'HARBOUR AFTERNOON (ROUNDSTONE, CONNEMARA)'
- Price Realised: 9,500
- Sale: 18 February 2003
- oil on board
- 46 by 61cm., 18 by 24in.
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'EARLY LIGHT, INAGH VALLEY, CONNEMARA, 2001'
- Price Realised: 9,000
- Sale: 29 February 2016
- oil on board
- 20 x 24in. (50.80 x 60.96cm)
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'ROUNDSTONE REMEMBERED'
- Price Realised: 9,000
- Sale: 30 November 2004
- oil on board
- 38 by 94cm., 15 by 37in.
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'THE NEW PIER, ROUNDSTONE'
- Price Realised: 8,500
- Sale: 22 February 2005
- oil on board
- 51 by 61cm., 20 by 24in.
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'BALLYCONNEELY, CONNEMARA, 1970'
- Price Realised: 8,200
- Sale: 26 November 2018
- oil on canvas
- 14Ό x 35½in. (36.20 x 90.17cm)
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'TURF BOAT, KILRONAN'
- Price Realised: 8,000
- Sale: 22 February 2005
- oil on board
- 61 by 46cm., 24 by 18in.
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'REGATTA, ROUNDSTONE'
- Price Realised: 8,000
- Sale: 21 September 2004
- oil on board
- 41 by 51cm., 16 by 20in.
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'SUMMER AFTERNOON, ROUNDSTONE, CONNEMARA, 1984'
- Price Realised: 7,500
- Sale: 19 September 2006
- oil on board
- 36 by 46cm., 14 by 18in.
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'BOATS IN THE HARBOUR, ROUNDSTONE'
- Price Realised: 7,500
- Sale: 21 September 2004
- oil on board
- 41 by 61cm., 16 by 24in.
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'TURF BOAT, KILRONAN'
- Price Realised: 7,500
- Sale: 27 April 2004
- oil on board
- 61 by 46cm., 24 by 18in.
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'CUTTING RYE, INISHMAAN'
- Price Realised: 7,500
- Sale: 18 November 2003
- oil on board
- 46 by 36cm., 18 by 14in.
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'DAWN, KILLARY HARBOUR'
- Price Realised: 7,500
- Sale: 16 September 2003
- oil on board; inscribed on reverse
- 61 by 91cm., 24 by 36in.
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'FAIR DAY, CLIFDEN, COUNTY GALWAY, JULY 1989'
- Price Realised: 7,000
- Sale: 28 September 2020
- oil on board
- 24 x 30in. (60.96 x 76.20cm)
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'TWELVE PINS NEAR LETTERDYFE, CONNEMARA'
- Price Realised: 7,000
- Sale: 20 September 2005
- oil on canvas
- 51 by 61cm., 20 by 24in.
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'COTTAGES, BALLYCONNEELY'
- Price Realised: 6,700
- Sale: 17 February 2004
- oil on canvas
- 41 by 61cm., 16 by 24in.
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'EVENING LIGHT AT THE BENAB'
- Price Realised: 6,700
- Sale: 17 September 2002
- oil on canvas
- 38 by 89cm., 15 by 35in.
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'CORRIB YACHT CLUB, COUNTY GALWAY, 1974'
- Price Realised: 6,600
- Sale: 29 November 2021
- oil on board
- 18 x 36in. (45.72 x 91.44cm)
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'CUSHENDUN, COUNTY ANTRIM, 1996'
- Price Realised: 6,600
- Sale: 21 February 2006
- oil on board
- 30 by 41cm., 12 by 16in.
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'LOW WATER, ERVALLAGH'
- Price Realised: 6,600
- Sale: 20 September 2005
- oil on board
- 36 by 46cm., 14 by 18in.
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'CLOSE ENCOUNTER, OLD QUAY, ROUNDSTONE, 2001'
- Price Realised: 6,500
- Sale: 19 February 2007
- oil on board
- 30 by 36cm., 12 by 14in.
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'LAUNCHING CURRACH, INISHMAAN, COUNTY GALWAY, 1983'
- Price Realised: 6,200
- Sale: 29 November 2021
- oil on board
- 11 x 13in. (27.94 x 33.02cm)
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'CONNACHT AT KINVARA, COUNTY GALWAY, 1990'
- Price Realised: 6,200
- Sale: 31 May 2021
- oil on board
- 14 x 18in. (35.56 x 45.72cm)
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'WINTER LIGHT, ROUNDSTONE, CONNEMARA'
- Price Realised: 6,200
- Sale: 30 November 2004
- oil on board
- 51 by 61cm., 20 by 24in.
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'SANTA MARIA DELLA SALUTE, VENEZIA'
- Price Realised: 6,200
- Sale: 17 February 2004
- oil on board
- 41 by 61cm., 16 by 24in.
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'INTO MASS, ROUNDSTONE, COUNTY GALWAY, 1981'
- Price Realised: 6,000
- Sale: 27 May 2024
- oil on board
- 18 x 24in. (45.72 x 60.96cm)
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'GALWAY HOOKER, 1970'
- Price Realised: 6,000
- Sale: 30 November 2015
- oil on board
- 36 x 17Ύin. (91.44 x 45.09cm)
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'EVENING LIGHT, GORTEEN BEACH, ROUNDSTONE'
- Price Realised: 6,000
- Sale: 27 April 2004
- oil on board
- 61 by 91cm., 24 by 36in.
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'ON OLD QUAY, ROUNDSTONE, CONNEMARA'
- Price Realised: 5,800
- Sale: 26 February 2018
- oil on board
- 20 x 30in. (50.80 x 76.20cm)