Life
1861-1927 [John Bagnell Bury]; b. Monaghan, ed. Foyle College, Derry,
and TCD; Erasmus Smith Prof. Mod. Hist., TCD, 1893; Greek, 1898; succeeded
Lord Acton as history Prof. at Cambridge, 1902; History of the Later
Roman Empire (1889), at twenty-eight, paved way for prolific output;
later issed histories of Rome (1899) and Greece (1900);
Life of St. Patrick (1905); Ancient Greek Historians (1909);
A History of the Freedom of Thought (1914); A History of the Later
Roman Empire from the Death of Theodosius to the Death of Justinian (1923);
ed. Cambridge Ancient History [q.d.]; was Yeats’s
classics master at High School, Dublin and may have interested him in
Byzantium, acc. Richard Ellmann. DNB DIB DIW
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Works
Nemean Odes of Pindar (1890); Isthmian Odes of Pindar (1892);
History of the Later Roman Empire from Arcadius to Irene (1889);
History of the Roman Empire ... to the death of Marcus Aurelius
(1893); ed., Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, 7 vols. (1896-1900);
History of Greece to the death of Alexander the Great (1900); Life
of St. Patrick (1905); History of the Eastern Empire form the fall
of Irene to the Accession of Basil I (1912); History of the Freedom
of Thought (1914); Idea of Progress (1920); History of the
later Roman Empire from the death of Theodosius to the death of Justinian
(1923). Also, a series of papers on law and public administration in later
Roman Empire (1906-11). For bibliography, see New Cambridge Bibliography
of English Literature, 4 (1972) pp.1143-5 [cited in Eager]
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)