Life
1888-1971 [Cyril Bentham Falls]; b. 2 March, Dublin, ed. Portora Royal College, Bradfield College, and London University; served in WWI as capt. On General Staff of 36th (Ulster) Division; continued on as regular soldier, 1923-1939; worked on team preparing official war history; military correspondent for The Times 1939-53; Chicele Professor of the Hist. of War, Oxford; Irish books inc. Elizabeth’s Irish Wars (1950), and Mountjoy, Elizabethan General; also The History of the 36th (Ulster) Division (1922); regular contributor to Illustrated London News; d. Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, 23 April. DIW DIB DUB
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Works
The Birth of Ulster [1936] (London: Constable 1996), 271pp.; rep. as Birth of Ulster (London: Constable 1997), 304pp.; Elizabeth’s Irish Wars (Lon. 1950) [7 ills.], and Do. [rep. edn.] (London: Constable 1997), 378pp.; The History of the 36th (Ulster) Division (1922; facs. rep. 1998).
Also, Royal Irish Rifles, Volume 2 by Captain Cyril Falls [2 other vols. by Lt. Col. G. B. Laurie and Charles Graves].
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Criticism
Rory Brennan, review of Birth of Ulster and Elizabeth’s Irish Wars, in Books Ireland (Sept. 1997, p.217 [both characterised by in terms of the relentless sneer of paternalistic colonialism.]; Ian Paisley Jr., ‘A vision of Ulster ’', review of The Birth of Ulster in Irish News (13 April 1998) [link].
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References
Emerald Isle Books (Cat. 95) lists Birth of Ulster (London 1956) [sic]; Elizabeth’s Irish Wars (London 1950) [Cathach Bks, Cat. 12]. Elizabeth’s Irish Wars (London Methuen 1950), 362pp..
Belfast Public Library holds The Birth of Ulster (1936) [err?]; Elizabeth’s Irish Wars (1950); History of the 36th Ulster Division (1922); History of the Royal Irish Rifles (1925); Mountjoy, Elizabethan General (1955).
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