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Frank Maguire
Francis Dominick Maguire was born In Mary Street, Dublin at the abnormal weight of 15 lbs to his mother Christina Maguire, master tailor and his father Hugh Maguire, a sarcristian. He was the 8th c...view moreFrancis Dominick Maguire was born In Mary Street, Dublin at the abnormal weight of 15 lbs to his mother Christina Maguire, master tailor and his father Hugh Maguire, a sarcristian. He was the 8th child born to his mother, all of them girls and only two survived, his 2 elder sister Theresa and Eileen. He was a healthy child much loved by his mother who treasured him because of his sex and his size.That was on the 5th of October 1933. He was called Francis by all who knew him. He learned to read before he went to school but has no memory of being taught to read, only that he wanted to read just like his sister Theresa who was 8 years older than him. This was no advantage to him when he went to school and he passed none of the exams that were set for him.
When he was about 14 his father sent him to learn a trade and he hated the very idea of a trade as laid out for him by his father and so he became a fisherman abord the Kosmos, the only submarine trawler in the world,then he becamse a sailor in one of the three masted schooners run by John Tyrell and Sons out of Arklow and after that he joined the British Army,
Corp of Royal Engineers, served in Germany, Korea. demobbed 1955, bus conductor in London, joined Royal Air Force. Ground radar Fitter.demobbed 1960’s. electronics engineer, then technical writer, Manager of Decca Radio Station in Ballydavid Ireland for 11 years. Married with one daughter Muireann. Made redundant by automatic equipment in 1984. On the dole, Painting and Writing. Writing did not take so he painted and sold lots of paintings to touristes, some came back for more. Divorced from Ist wife and married again to American lady, came to America in 2000. Still here.view less