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Francis Stewart Leland Lyons FBA (11 November 1923 – 21 September 1983) was an Irish historian and academic who served as the 40th Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1974 to 1981. [1] Plaque marking Lyons' burial site at Trinity College Dublin.
Lyons, Francis Stewart Leland (1923–83), historian, was born in Londonderry on 11 November 1923, the elder of two sons of Stewart Lyons, an official of the Northern Bank, and Florence May Lyons (née Leland).
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 without straw”, and went on to ...
From Lecky to Yeats and forward to F. S. L. Lyons we witness the conversion of Irish history into a tragic theatre in which the great Anglo-Irish protagonists - Swift, Burke, Parnell - are destroyed in their heroic attempts to unite culture of intellect with the emotion of multitude, or in political terms, constitutional politics with the ...
Sep 30, 2020 · Culture and anarchy in Ireland, 1890-1939. by. Lyons, F. S. L. (Francis Stewart Leland), 1923-1983. Publication date. 1979. Topics. Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1837-1901, Ireland -- Politics and government -- 20th century, Ireland -- Civilization. Publisher.
Francis Stewart Leland Lyons was an Irish historian and academic who served as the 40th Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1974 to 1981.
By F. S. L. LYONS University of Kent I 'IT is not easy to describe the mental life of a man who is neither expansive nor introspective'.' Thus wrote T. P. O'Connor, one of Parnell's earliest bio-graphers. Historians have never ceased to echo his lament, and however much they may have differed in their interpretation of Parnell, they have generally
