I picked up a delightful little book, An Introduction to Optical Art at a thrift shop. (After all, I am fond of Vasarely.) I was surprised by the brief biography which revealed the author to be Cyril Barrett, SJ (1925-2003), Jesuit priest, art critic and historian, and philosopher. A bit of digging online uncovered an obituary in the Irish Times, and entry in the Dictionary of Irish Biography and semantic web data in the Irish Jesuit Archives. In addition to his scholarly work on philosophical aesthetics and Wittgenstein (particularly on ethics and religion), he was a champion of modern art, and lead a colorful life. A man after my own heart: “Although his flair for teaching and disputation was celebrated on campus, Barrett, like many old‐style academics, lacked administrative aptitude and in his later years at Warwick he was irritated by the increasing bureaucratisation and quantification of higher education.”