For thirty years Snoddy was the art critic at the newspaper where he wrote on exhibitions north and south of the border.
[1] Snoddy compiled the dictionary from painstaking research in art libraries, archives and from some 2500 letters received from artists and members of the public.
[2] For sixteen years between 1988 and 2004, Snoddy acted as an adviser to Ulster Television where along with Mike McCann he built an important collection of Irish art for the company.
The large collection included work by Basil Blackshaw, Carolyn Mulholland, Rita Duffy, Dennis H Osborne, and Neil Shawcross, and has been widely exhibited throughout Ireland.
His remains were interred at Friends Burial Ground, Balmoral, following a service at the Quaker Meeting House in South Belfast.
[6] In 2009 James Adam's Auctioneers in association with Bonham's sold part of Snoddy's personal art collection including works by Jack Butler Yeats, Markey Robinson and George Campbell.