Brian Farrell (1929-)

Life
1929- ; b. Manchester; 9 Jan. 1929; ed. England, UCD and Harvard; lecturer in politics, UCD; m. Marie-Thérèse, dg. of T.W.T. Dillon; RTÉ presenter and commentator; books incl. Chairman or Chief: The Role of the Taoiseach in Irish Government (1971); The Founding of Dáil Éireann (1971); Sean Lemass (1983); also ed., The Irish Parliamentary Tradition (1973); ed., De Valera’s Constitution and Ours (1989).

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Criticism
Tom Garvin, et al., eds., Dissecting Irish Politics: Essays in Honour of Brian Farrell (Dublin: UCD Press 2004. 272pp.

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