MacGreevy, Thomas (1893–1967)

Irish poet and art critic. His works include Poems (1934) and numerous articles and studies of influential writers and artists such as T S Eliot and Jack Butler Yeats. Born in Tarbert, County Kerry, MacGreevy studied at Trinity College, Dublin, following service in World War I. He was a friend of the writers James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, whom he met while lecturing at the École Normale in Paris 1927–29. After working as a critic in London, he returned to Dublin in 1941, and was appointed director of the National Gallery in 1950.