F. S. L. Lyons
F. S. L. Lyons | |
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40th Provost of Trinity College Dublin | |
In office 1 August 1974 – 1 August 1981 | |
Preceded by | Albert Joseph McConnell |
Succeeded by | William Arthur Watts |
Personal details | |
Born | Francis Stewart Leland Lyons 11 November 1923 Derry, Northern Ireland |
Died | 21 September 1983 Dublin, Ireland | (aged 59)
Resting place | Trinity College Chapel |
Spouse | Jennifer McAlister Lyons (m. 1964; d. 1983) |
Children | 2 |
Education | Dover College, Kent The High School, Dublin |
Alma mater | Trinity College Dublin |
Francis Stewart Leland Lyons
Biography
Known as Le among his friends and family, Lyons was born in
He was a lecturer in history at the
Lyons became
His principal works include Ireland Since the Famine, the standard university textbook for Irish history from the mid-19th to late-20th century, which The Times called "the definitive work of modern Irish history" and a biography of Charles Stewart Parnell.[1]
Lyons was critical of Cecil Woodham-Smith's much-acclaimed history of the Great Irish Famine and has generally been considered among the "revisionist" historians whose political sympathies underplayed the negative role of the British state in events like the Famine.[5]
Lyons married his wife Jennifer McAlister Lyons in 1964, and had two sons. Following a short illness, Lyons died in Dublin in 1983, just shy of his 60th birthday.[1]
Bibliography
- Lyons, F. S. L. (1951). The Irish Parliamentary Party, 1890-1910.
- — (1960). The fall of Parnell, 1890-91. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
- John Dillon: A Biography (1968)
- Ireland Since the Famine (1971)
- Charles Stewart Parnell (1977)
- Culture and Anarchy in Ireland, 1890–1939 (1979) - won the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize
References
- ^ a b c d "Professor F. S. L. Lyons – Perceptive Irish Historian". The Times. 24 September 1983. p. 10.
- ^ a b c Ulster History Circle. "Lyons, Francis Stewart Leland 1923-1983". Dictionary of Ulster Biography. Archived from the original on 9 December 2007. Retrieved 9 August 2007.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
- ISBN 0-904938-03-4
- ^ James S. Donnelly Jr, The Great Famine and its interpreters, old and new Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine, historyireland.com; accessed 12 February 2016.