Padraig de Burca Author

Padraig de Burca (1893-1975) was Chief Leader Writer and Literary Editor of the Irish Independent. In 1931 he was called to the Irish Bar and was recognised by the Law Library as an expert in the law of landlord and tenant and the law of defamation. Of his co-author, John F. Boyle, little is known. Patrick Murray holds doctorates from the National University of Ireland and Trinity College Dublin. He was a lecturer in English in St Patrick's College Maynooth and is the author of Oracles of God: The Roman Catholic Church and Irish Politics, 1922-37 (Dublin, 1999). Fearghal McGarry is a lecturer in Modern Irish History at Queen's University Belfast.