Between 1878 and 1881, Standish O’Grady published a three-volume History of Ireland that simultaneously recounted the heroic ancient past of the Irish people

Standish O'Grady was a major figure of the Irish Literary Revival. This work situates his literary, historical and political writing in its European intellectua

"Standish O'Grady (1846-1928) is best remembered as the 'Father of the Irish Literary Revival'. Critics of have long puzzled, however, about the turns and contr