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McDowell on McDowell
A memoir of R B McDowell, an Emeritus Fellow and former Professor of History at Trinity College, Dublin. Born in Belfast in 1913, McDowell describes his boyhood and family; student life; pre- and postwar Trinity and Dublin; his appointment as Junior Dean (1956-69); and his subsequent academic life.
The Junior Dean RB McDowell
For the first time, reminiscences by graduates and friends, recording entertaining encounters with 'RB' over a period of some seventy years, appear in book form, illustrated with evocative sketches of College circa 1950 by Bryan de Grineau, archival photographs, many hitherto unseen, and a Derek Hill painting in full colour.
The Irish Convention
Although largely regarded as a failure, the Irish Convention of 1917, might, had it been successful, have resulted in a totally different Ireland to the one which has emerged. It was an attempt to solve the apparently intractable Irish Question. This book, originally published in 1970, describes the debates which took place. These debates provide an anthology of Irish political thinking, and the committee proceedings offer interesting examples of negotiating techniques, Lloyd George intervening with consummate skill. The author concludes that the Convention may be dismissed as a failure, but that its work formed a stage in the evolution of the Irish settlement of the early 1920s.
Crisis and Decline
This is an account of the fate of Irish unionists outside of Ulster from the era of Parnell through the early years of the Irish Free State. The author details the efforts of a ruling minority to maintain the union between Britain and Ireland, and what happened to them during and after the Anglo-Irish war and the handing over of the 26 counties. He sympathetically srutinizes such places of southern unionism as Trinity College, The Irish Times, and the Dublin social clubs; as he became acquainted with the ex-unionist world while a student at Trinity College.
The Correspondence
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The Irish Administration
The developments and achievements of the Irish administration, overshadowed by the more spectacular aspects of Irish history have received comparatively little attention. In this work, originally published in 1964, the author shows how the administrative structure was drastically rationalised and modernised.
