Life
1915- ; b. Belfast; ed. Belf Acad. Inst., QUB and TCD; works dealing with
Irish history and the Six Counties. Novels, The Bishop’s Confession
(1943), and A Bomb and a Girl (London: Faber 1944); also many works
on N. Ireland. IF2
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Notes
Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels,
Tales, Romances and Folklore [Pt. 2] (Cork: Royal Carbery 1985), lists
The Bishop’s Confession (London: Faber & Faber 1943) [purported
memoir of Rev. MacPeake of Church of Ireland, from childhood; late nineteenth
and twentieth c.]; A Bomb and a Girl (London: Faber & Faber
1944) [small town Ulster during World War I; injured youthful ego of spoilt
child, and reaction thereto].
Hyland Books (Cat. 219; 1995) lists Modern Ireland (1st edn. 1952), map.
Belfast Public Library holds Anglo-Irish Relations (1948); Belfast Royal Academy 1785-1935 (1935); A Bomb and a Girl (1944); Ireland Since the Close of the Middle Ages (1955); Modern Ireland (1952); Northern Ireland (n.d.); Not an Inch (1942); Recent Developments in Anglo-Irish Relations (1949); Ulster (1949).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)