Life
1947- ; b. Mayo, ed. UCC; lives in Dublin; issued historical studies incl. Granuaile (1979), Eleanor: Countess of Desmond (1986), Margaret Burke Sheridan (1989); The Geraldine Conspiracy (1995); co-author of film scripts.
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Works
Granuaile: Life and Times of Grace O’Malley c.1530-1603 (Portmarnock: Wolfhound 1979), 213pp. [rev. edn.] (Portmarnock: Wolfhound 1988), 224pp. [rev. edn.] (Dublin: Wolfhound 1998), 223pp.; Chieftain to Knight:
Ribbott-ne-Lond Bourke, 1st Viscount Mayo (1983); Eleanor: Countess of Desmond, c.1545-1638 (Dublin: Wolfhound 1986; rep. 2000), 256pp.; La Sheridan, Adorable Diva: Margaret Burke Sheridan, Irish Prima Donna
1889-1958 (Dublin: Wolfhound 1989), 222pp.; The Geraldine Conspiracy (Dublin: Marino 1995), 445pp.; Shadowy Lord: Theobald Bourke, Tibbet-ne-Long, 15867-1629 (Ashfield Press 2007), 219pp., ill. [8 photos].
Also fiction, Finding Tom Cruise and Other Stories (Linden Publishing 2007), 151pp. [review in Books Ireland, April 2007, p.76.]
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