Anthony J. Jordan

Anthony "Tony" J. Jordan (1942 - 3 May 2023) was an Irish biographer. He was a native of Ballyhaunis, County Mayo. Jordan was a graduate of NUI Maynooth, University College Dublin, and St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra. He initially specialized in writing 'first' biographies. His early interest centered on the interaction between the figures of Major John MacBride, W. B. Yeats, and Maud Gonne. After discovering the MacBride Papers in the National Library of Ireland, he made them available through his books in elucidation on MacBride from the criticism by W. B. Yeats and his admirers.

Publications Tell my Mother I... A Novel of Adoption. 2020 Maud Gonne's Men Westport Books 2018 James Joyce Unplugged Westport Books 2017 "William Thomas Cosgrave", in Dublin City Council and the 1916 Rising, (ed.) Gibney John Dublin City Council 2016 A Jesus Biography 2015 Westport Books 2015 Arthur Griffith with James Joyce and W.B. Yeats – Liberating Ireland. Westport Books. 2013 Eamon DeValera 1882–1975 Irish: Catholic: Visionary. Westport Books. 2010 The Good Samaritans, Memoir of a Biographer. Westport Books. 2008 John A Costello 1891–1976 Compromise Taoiseach. Westport Books. 2007 WT Cosgrave A Founder of Modern Ireland. Westport Books. 2006 "Christmas 1987 in The Quiet Quarter" Anthology of New Irish Writing Edited by Eoin Brady, New Island 2004. . W.B. YEATS Vain, Glorious Lout. A Maker of Modern Ireland. Westport Books. . 2003. The Yeats/Gonne/MacBride Triangle Westport Books 2000 Christy Brown's Women – a biography. Westport Books. 1998 Willie Yeats and the Gonne-MacBrides. Westport Books. . 1997 Churchill a founder of modern Ireland. Westport Books. . 1995 To Laugh or To Weep A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien. Blackwater Press. 1994 Sean - A Biography of Sean MacBride Blackwater Press. 1992 "Major John MacBride 1865–1916" MacDonagh & MacBride & Connolly & Pearse. Westport Historical Society. 1991