Life
1882-1958;
ed. Catholic University (Med.); dispensary doctor at Lusk, Co. Dublin; commanded Fingal Battalion of Irish Volunteers; attended wounded at Ashbourne, Easter 1916; arrested and sentenced to death; sentence commuted to twenty years' penal servitude; released, June 1917; re-arrested and imprisoned in Reading Jail, 1918; elected MP for Limerick, 1918; took Treaty side, 1922; resigned from the Dáil to concentrate on work, 1924; appt. director of the Abbey Theatre, 1934; became dispensary doctor for Donnybrook, Co. Dublin; m. Hilda Shaw in 1939; acted as film censor 1944-54; issued The Last Invasion of Ireland (1937), Irish Men in the French Revolution (1932), Irish Swordsmen in the Service of France (1941), Biographical Dictionary of Irishmen in France (1949), and other works; vice-pres. of Military History Society of Ireland; MRIA; Légion d’Honneur; hon. DLitt from NUI; d. 16 June, Dún Laoghaire. DIB
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Works
Ireland and Irish Men in the French Revolution (London: Benn 1932), xx, 314pp.;
Irish Swordsmen in the Service of France (Dublin 1934; [2nd imp.] 1941), 307pp.; The Last Invasion of Ireland, When Connaught Rose (Dublin: M. H. Gill 1937); Some Notable Limerick Doctors (Limerick 1938); Old Irish Links with France: Some Echoes of Exiled Ireland (Dublin 1940); Biographical Dictionary of Irishmen in France (Dublin 1949). 332pp.
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Notes
De Burca Books (Cat. No. 44; 1997) lists Ireland and Irishmen in the French Revolution. With a preface by Hilaire Belloc. Illustrated. London, Benn, 1932. Pages, xx, 314. V.good. Scarce. [£95.00]; Irish Swordsmen of France. With a foreword by Rev. Patrick Browne. Illustrated. Dublin, M.H. Gill & Son, 1934. Pages, xix, 307. V.good. [£85; both].
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)