A poet, he was also director of the National Gallery of Ireland from 1950 to 1963 and served on the first Irish Arts Council (An Chomhairle Ealaíon).
[1] Thomas McGreevy was born in Tarbert, County Kerry, the son of a Royal Irish Constabulary policeman and a primary school teacher.
[3] He then became involved in various library organisations, began publishing articles in Irish periodicals, and wrote his first poems.
The following year he moved to London, where he met T. S. Eliot and began writing for The Criterion[4] and other magazines.
The work shows that MacGreevy had absorbed the lessons of Imagism and of The Waste Land, but also demonstrates that he had brought something of his own to these influences.
On returning to Dublin during the Second World War, he wrote for both the Father Mathew Record and The Capuchin Annual[8] and joined the editorial board of the latter.