Life
1972- ; historian and author of works on local politics in Ireland; also, with Colm Tóibín, The Irish Famine (2001).
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Works
Mothers, Maidens and Myths: A History of the Irish Countrywomen's Association ([Dublin: FÁS] 1995), vii, 63pp, ill.; Cuimhnigh ar Luimneach: A History of Limerick County Council 1898-1998 (Limerick County Council 1998), 232pp., ill., ports.; “Lovers of liberty?”: Local Government in 20th-century Ireland (Dublin:
National Archives of Ireland 2001), 215pp., ill., ports., facsims.; with Colm Tóibin, The Irish Famine: A Documentary (London: Profile 2001, 2003), 214pp.
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Criticism
C. D. C. Armstrong, ‘Looking through green-tinted spectacles’, in The Spectator (30 Oct. 2004), pp.53-54 [written from a N. Ireland standpoint and noting ‘slipshod’ errors.]
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)