Maurice MacGonigal (22 January 1900 – 31 January 1979) was an Irish landscape and portrait painter and influential teacher. Life Maurice MacGonigal was born in Ranelagh, Dublin on 22 January 1900. His parents were Francis and Caroline MacGonigal (née Lane). His father was a painter and decorator from Sligo. MacGonigal was the only son, and the third child. He was educated at Synge Street Christian Brothers School, and in 1915 was apprenticed to the stained-glass studios of Joshua Clarke. His father was a partner in this studio at 33 North Frederick Street, and Clarke was MacGonigal's uncle and he worked alongside his cousin, Harry Clarke. During this time, MacGonigal learnt decorative design and drawing. In 1917, MacGonigal was enlisted into Na Fianna Éireann by Bulmer Hobson, serving as an IRA dispatch rider during the War of Independence reporting to Sean Dowling in C Coy, 4th Battalion, Dublin Brigade. He was arrested and interned from 8 December 1920 in Kilmainham Gaol, and was later moved to Ballykinlar camp, County Down. While in Ballykinlar he was elected prisoners' intelligence officer. MacGonigal was released in 1921, and immediately resigned from all republican organisations to concentrate on his art. On 6 August 1940, he married Aida Kelly. The couple had two sons, Muiris Diarmuid Mac Conghail born 1941, and Ciaran MacGonigal born 1945. They lived at various homes across Dublin, in the city centre as well as Booterstown, Ranelagh, and Rathgar. MacGonigal died in Baggot Street hospital, Dublin on 31 January 1979. He is buried at Gorteen graveyard, Roundstone, County Galway. A large studio palette that once belonged to William Orpen was placed on his grave. Career MacGonigal was made a partner with Harry Clarke, working as a designer while an evening student at Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. He won a Taylor scholarship for 3 years for his painting A public meeting, going on to study as a day student from 1923 to 1926. Whilst there he studied under Seán Keating, Patrick Tuohy, and James Sleator. His 1923 watercolour, Prisoners on the roof, Kilmainham, documented a historic republican protest. MacGonigal visited the Aran Islands in 1924, marking the beginning of an interest in the west of Ireland. In 1925, he exhibited a stained-glass panel, Baal, at the Arts and Crafts Society of Ireland exhibition, but soon after moved away from this medium to concentrate on painting. Following a visit to the Netherlands in