Self-taught painter, born in Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, who graduated from Queen’s University, in 1951. He was made an associate of the RUA in 1971, in 1971 began showing at RHA and in 1981 resigned as senior English master at Lurgan College to paint and travel full-time. Maguire depicted the coasts of Normandy, Portugal and New England, but spent much of his time recording small communities in the west of Ireland, delighting in “the way in which the ordinary can become the extraordinary, even for a fleeting moment.” His self-portrait in the National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland, University of Limerick, reveals Maguire’s preference for slightly abstracted naturalism. He was included in Landscapes North and South, The Glebe House and Gallery, Donegal, and tour, 1997.