Dudley, as he was always called, was a formidable scholar, a towering and legendary figure. ..He combined flamboyance and eccentricity with scholarship and imagination. Thirty-five years after his death people still often talk about him. He was unique. Continue reading
James Francis Michael Lydon (1928‒2013) ‒ always ‘Jim’ to his friends ‒ was the most influential historian of later medieval Ireland of his time…His achievement was to revive the study of a neglected stretch of the Irish past both through his own writings and through the fascination and lasting commitment he inspired in those he taught. Continue reading
Composing these words brings to mind a man who, in my experience, was always kind, cautious and considerate, and one who believed that by writing, teaching and example he could make his country a more reasonable, and therefore a more tolerant, society than it had been during his boyhood and early manhood years. Continue reading
Professor Beckett in the Quadrangle of Queen’s University Belfast c. 1975
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A ‘Brief Life’ of Professor J. Otway-Ruthven. Continue reading
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