Life
1831-1889; first Catholic fellow of TCD; Chair of Classical Composition;
took part in discussion concerning Pigott letters. Essays on the Platonic
Idea (1866), and other works. ODNB
Works
(Selected), Essays on the Platonic Idea (1866); England’s
Duty to Ireland, as Plain to a Loyal Irish Roman Catholic (Dublin
1886), 16pp..
Commentary
Thomas
Duddy, ‘The Peculiar Opinions of an Irish Platonist: The Life
and Thought of Thomas Maguire’, in in Tadhg Foley and Seán
Ryder, Ideology and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century (Dublin:
Four Courts Press 1998), p143-58.
References
Hyland
catalogue (1996) lists England’s Duty to Ireland, as Plain to
a Loyal Irish Roman Catholic (Dublin 1886), 16pp. [ltd. edn. 1000], incl.
extracts from Cardinal’s Pastoral Address.
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