Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Patrick Swift (1927–83) was an artist born in Dublin, Ireland. Patrick Swift was a painter and key cultural figure in both Dublin and London before moving to the Algarve in southern Portugal, where he is buried in the town of Porches. He used the pseudonym James Mahon for some of his writing.In Dublin he was part of the Envoy arts review / McDaid's pub circle of artistic and literary figures that included Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, Brendan Behan, et al. He later moved to London where he became an integral member of the Soho set that included Francis Bacon, George Barker, Elizabeth Smart, et al. In London he founded and co-edited - with the poet David Wright – the legendary ‘X' magazine which Swift used to promote artists such as Francis Bacon, Alberto Giacometti, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Craigie Atchison and David Bomberg (whose posthumous papers Swift unearthed

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