Life
1890-1972; b. Castlecaulfield, Co. Tyrone; ed. Dungannon and TCD; proceeded
to Lincoln Coll., Oxford; grad. Classics and Ancient History; issued Civil
War in Ulster (1914) arguing that the Ulster Unionist rebellion was
a British conspiracy; Albert Cahn Fellowship, 1914; studied economics
in India, America, Java, China and Japan; lect. in Ancient History, TCD;
advised Boundary Commissions on economic development, 1925; lect. in Economics,TCD;
Rockefeller Fellow for Economic Research in Europe, 1928-1929; chair of
Applied Economics, TCD, 1939; TCD rep. Irish Senator (Dublin University),
1938-48, 1951-54; critical of Fianna Fáil agricultural policy;
undertook management of several farms to demonstrate his principles; published
Berkeley’s "Querist" in Historical Perspective (1970);
TCD D.Litt., 1970; author of (UCD Press 1999), 224pp.; became Prof. of
Applied Economics, TCD and Irish senator; an abbreviated edition of Civil
War in Ireland was issued by his son Roy Johnston in 1999. DIB
MIL
Works
Civil War in Ireland, ed. Roy Johnston [rep. edn.] (Dublin; UCD Press
1999).
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