Anthony Cronin

In his later years Cronin suffered from failing health, which prevented him from travelling abroad, thus limiting his dealings to local matters.

[3] He died on 27 December 2016, one day short of his 93rd birthday, having married a second wife, the writer Anne Haverty; his daughter Sarah also survived him.

[citation needed] He involved himself in initiatives such as Aosdána (an association for the benefit of artists and writers),[6] the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Heritage Council.

He was also a member of the governing bodies of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Ireland, of which he was (for a time) Acting Chairman.

[citation needed] With Flann O'Brien, Patrick Kavanagh and Con Leventhal, Cronin celebrated the first Bloomsday in 1954.

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Patrick Kavanagh and Anthony Cronin at the church in Monkstown with the carriage in which they had been proceeding about Dublin in the footsteps of Leopold Bloom , the protagonist in Ulysses , 50 years after Bloom traversed the city in James Joyce 's novel.