Former journalist wrote acclaimed biography of Jack Lynch. becoming Emeritus Professor of History at UCC
He wrote an acclaimed biography of Jack Lynch as well as Church and Politics in Latin America and Ireland and the Vatican: The Politics and Diplomacy of Church-State Relations 1922-1960.
He also wrote The Rise of the Irish Working Class: The Dublin Trade Union Movement and Labour Leadership, The Vatican, the Bishops and Irish Politics and Twentieth Century Ireland: Nation and State. “Looking back over my thirty years teaching in UCC, a privileged way to spend my professional life, I was in the company of many outstanding colleagues and generations of great students,” he said as he singled out Murphy’s Ireland in the Twentieth Century and Lee’s Ireland, 1912-1985 – Politics and Society as two works that inspired him.
“I first began to have conversations with political leaders in the late 1960s – members of the Irish revolutionary generation. At that time, the history profession in Ireland had yet to consider that period as part of the official canon of Irish history.
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