Arthur Griffith: the forgotten man of the Irish Revolution?

Owen McGee is a graduate of University College Dublin (PhD History, MA Archives & Records Management) and former employee of the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography. His first book, The IRB: from the Land League to Sinn Fein (Four Courts Press, 2005) won the NUI Centennial Prize for Irish History, and his most recent book is a biography of Arthur Griffith (Merrion Press, 2015). His next publication will be a survey article entitled “Between East and West: the financial challenge in establishing a foreign policy for an independent Irish state 1919-1927″. He is currently studying Digital Humanities here at UCC and examining the possibility of establishing a open-access database to facilitate more research on the earliest years of Dail Eireann.”