Anthony J. Jordan

Anthony J Jordan's last book was a novel called Tell My Mother I.... it is the story of a female who discovers accidentally that she was adopted. It charts the downward spiral of her life when her birth other refuses any contact. His second last book was titled MAUD GONNES' MEN. It contains chapters how Sean MacBride played a pivotal role in the repatriation of WB Yeats and MacbBrides role in the non-repatriation of James Joyce. He also wrote an introductory biography of James Joyce titled, James Joyce Unplugged [9780957622920]. He is a Volunteer at the James Joyce Tower in Sandycove where the first chapter of Ulysses is set. He lives at Sandymount where Leopold Bloom spied on Gerty McDowell. Jordan once asked Seamus Heaney who also lived locally for over 30+ years why he did not write more about Sandymount Strand. "That's Joycean territory" came the reply.

He has written first biographies of Irish historical figures: Major John MacBride, Sean MacBride, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Christy Brown, WT Cosgrave, John A Costello. He has written 4 books on the theme of the Yeats/Gonne/MacBride Triangle, defending John MacBride's good name from criticism from Maud Gonne, WB Yeats and some of their biographers. He lives in Dublin Ireland. He has written an autobiography titled, "The Good Samaritans - Memoir of A Biographer". He has a love of the poetry of WB Yeats and the poets of the First World War, especially Wilfred Owen.

His ARTHUR GRIFFITH WITH JAMES JOYCE & W B YEATS - Liberating Ireland. [isbn 978-0-9576229-0-6] was published in 2013. His next book was A Jesus Biography 2015. He has contributed a Chapter on WT Cosgrave in the 2016 book titled, Dublin City Council and the 1916 Rising. He is currently studying the life of James Joyce and that was published in 2017..

His newest book is titled -SECOND SANDYMOUNT MAN - SEAMUS HEANEY - A MEMOIR F LETTERS. It consists of details including letters exchanged, of his relationship with Local Sandymount resident Seamus Heaney and his wife Marie. The letters incude those from such people as :Seamus Heaney, Marie Heaney, Daniel Day Lewis, Paul Durcan, Roy Foster Rev. Tomas O’Fiaich, Lady Valerie Goulding, Mrs Mary Brown, Sean Brown, Dr Mary O’Donnell, Dr. Patricia Sheehan, Dr. Robert Collis, Mrs Phylis Collis, Mrs Han Collis, Katriona Maguire, Peter Sheridan, Christopher Nolan, Capt John Feehan, Brian Friel, Hugh Leonard, Raleigh Tevalyn (Michael Joseph), Diarmaid Ferriter, Tim Pat Coogan, Liam Cosgrave, Leo Varadker, Rotunda Hospital, Fanagans’ Undertakers, Anna MacBride White, Conor Cruise O’Brien, DES Blatherwick British Ambassador, Una O’Higgins O’Malley, Harriet Great Niece of Harriet Shaw Weaver, John Jermain Slocum, Royal Irish Academy, The Samaritans etc,