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b. 1930

Cecil Maquire was born in Lurgan and graduated from The Queen’s University, Belfast in 1951. In 1981 he resigned his post as Senior English Master at Lurgan College in order to paint and travel full-time. He now lives and works for most of the year in the West of Ireland in Roundstone, Connemara where he feels very much at home in an area which has always been an inspiration for his work.