A 'spectacularly productive' historian – Brian Maye on Trinity provost FSL Lyons – The Irish Times
Lyons’s influence on perceptions of Irish history remains immense
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Lyons’s influence on perceptions of Irish history remains immense
Ireland Since the Famine (1971) by FSL Lyons: A towering work The historian wisely included economic, social, constitutional and cultural themes about 5 hours ago This great work came as a breath of fresh air to the young, immature Leaving Cert history student I was in the early 1970s. There was scarcely time to do more than dip into it while at school but it became a bible for the Irish history courses when I went to university. In his preface, FSL Lyons lamented that trying to write a synthesis of modern Irish history since the Famine was a bit like being “condemned to make bricks wit...