Life
1888-1971 [Cyril Bentham Falls]; b. 2 March, Dublin, ed. Portora Royal College, Bradfield College, and London University; served in WWI as capt. On General Staff of 36th (Ulster) Division; continued on as regular soldier, 1923-1939; worked on team preparing official war history; military correspondent for The Times 1939-53; Chicele Professor of the Hist. of War, Oxford; Irish books inc. Elizabeth’s Irish Wars (1950), and Mountjoy, Elizabethan General; also The History of the 36th (Ulster) Division (1922); regular contributor to Illustrated London News; d. Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, 23 April. DIW DIB DUB
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Works
The Birth of Ulster [1936] (London: Constable 1996), 271pp.; rep. as Birth of Ulster (London: Constable 1997), 304pp.; Elizabeth’s Irish Wars (Lon. 1950) [7 ills.], and Do. [rep. edn.] (London: Constable 1997), 378pp.; The History of the 36th (Ulster) Division (1922; facs. rep. 1998).
Also, Royal Irish Rifles, Volume 2 by Captain Cyril Falls [2 other vols. by Lt. Col. G. B. Laurie and Charles Graves].
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Criticism
Rory Brennan, review of Birth of Ulster and Elizabeth’s Irish Wars, in Books Ireland (Sept. 1997, p.217.
Ian Paisley Jr., ‘A vision of Ulster’', review of The Birth of Ulster in Irish News (13 April 1998) [link].
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Notes
Emerald Isle Books (Cat. 95) lists Birth of Ulster (London 1956) [sic]; Elizabeth’s Irish Wars (London 1950) [Cathach Bks, Cat. 12]. Elizabeth’s Irish Wars (London Methuen 1950), 362pp..
Belfast Public Library holds The Birth of Ulster (1936) [err?]; Elizabeth’s Irish Wars (1950); History of the 36th Ulster Division (1922); History of the Royal Irish Rifles (1925); Mountjoy, Elizabethan General (1955).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)