biography
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| (1893–1964)
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| biography:
| Socialist and historian, born in London, UK, the son of William Patrick Ryan. Educated at Patrick Pearse's school, St Enda's, he became Pearse's secretary, and wrote studies of Pearse and James Connolly. He supported the Anglo–Irish treaty, but left in disgust at the Civil War, and wrote novels in London, including Invisible Army (1932) and St Eustace and the Albatross (1934). He returned to Dublin in the 1940s, produced The Rising (1946), and became editor of Devoy's Post Bag (1948, 1953). |
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