Life
1840-1918; b. Clonmel; ed. Harrow and Oxford; bar; Commissioner
on National Education; member of the Patriotic Union (Southern Unionists);
D.Litt., TCD and Oxon.; author of Ireland Under the Tudors (1885-1890)
and Ireland Under the Stuarts, 3 vols. (1909-10); wrote
the historical entry on ‘Ireland’ for the Encyclopaedia Britannica
(Chicago 1911); d. Clonmel; a son, John, became General Manager of the
Great Northern Railway of Ireland. DIW DIB
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Works
Ireland Under the Tudors: With a Succinct Account of the Earlier History,
3 vols. (London: Longmans 1885-90), and Do. [facs. rep. edn.] (London:
Holland 1963); Ireland Under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum,
with maps, 3 vols. (London: Longmans & Co. 1910-1916), and Do.
[facs. rep. edn.] (London: Holland 1963), xv, 370pp.; xii, 388pp., xi,
351pp.; also A Plea for National Education, in Answer to Mr. Butt’s
Proposal for its Destruction (Dublin: Hodges, Foster & Co. 1875),
35pp. [in answer to "The Problem of Irish Education"].
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- Maurice Headlam, Irish Reminiscences (London: Robert Hale 1947);
- J. C. Beckett, Making of Modern Ireland (London: Faber, 1966; rep. 1981)
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Notes
The
British Library holds A Plea for National Education,
in answer to Mr. Butt’s proposal for its destruction. [An answer to "The
Problem of Irish Education"]; 36pp. Hodges, Foster & Co.: Dublin,
1875. 8o. [2] Ireland under the Stuarts and during the Interregnum, etc..
3 vol. Longmans & Co.: London, 1909-16. 8o. [3] Ireland under the
Tudors, with a succinct account of the earlier history. 3 vol. Longmans
& Co.: London, 1885-90. 8o.
Univ. of Ulster Library holds Ireland Under the Stuarts ([1909-16] rep. ed. London: Holland 1963); Ireland Under the Tudors, 3 vols. ([1885-90] rep. ed. London: Holland 1963).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)