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| '''Robert Walter Dudley Edwards''' (known to his friends as Robin, and to his students as 'Dudley') (4 June 1909 – 5 June 1988)<ref>Aidan Clarke, "Robert Dudley Edwards (1909-88)", ''Irish Historical Studies'', Vol. 26, No. 102 (Nov., 1988), pp. 121-127</ref> was an Irish historian. | '''Robert Walter Dudley Edwards''' (known to his friends as Robin, and to his students as 'Dudley') (4 June 1909 – 5 June 1988)<ref>Aidan Clarke, "Robert Dudley Edwards (1909-88)", ''Irish Historical Studies'', Vol. 26, No. 102 (Nov., 1988), pp. 121-127</ref> was an Irish historian. | ||
| He was born in ]. His father was Walter Dudley Edwards, a journalist - 'an unassuming and well-read Englishman of liberal inclinations and Liberal association' - in the words of Aidan Clarke - who came to Ireland with his wife, born Bridget Teresa MacInerney from Clare, and eventually became a civil servant.<ref>Aidan Clarke, "Robert Dudley Edwards (1909-88)", ''Irish Historical Studies'', Vol. 26, No. 102 (Nov., 1988), pp. 121-127</ref><ref>National Archives of Ireland, Census 1911 </ref> Educated first at the Catholic University School, Robert was removed by his parents to ] after the 1916 rising, and then ], finally returning to the Catholic University School. In his final exams he failed French and Irish but gained first place in Ireland in history.<ref>Aidan Clarke, "Robert Dudley Edwards (1909-88)", ''Irish Historical Studies'', Vol. 26, No. 102 (Nov., 1988), pp. 121-127</ref> | He was born in ]. His father was Walter Dudley Edwards, a journalist - 'an unassuming and well-read Englishman of liberal inclinations and Liberal association' - in the words of Aidan Clarke - who came to Ireland with his wife, born Bridget Teresa MacInerney from Clare, and eventually became a civil servant.<ref>Aidan Clarke, "Robert Dudley Edwards (1909-88)", ''Irish Historical Studies'', Vol. 26, No. 102 (Nov., 1988), pp. 121-127</ref><ref>National Archives of Ireland, Census 1911 </ref> Educated first at the ], Robert was removed by his parents to ] after the 1916 rising, and then ], finally returning to the Catholic University School. In his final exams he failed French and Irish but gained first place in Ireland in history.<ref>Aidan Clarke, "Robert Dudley Edwards (1909-88)", ''Irish Historical Studies'', Vol. 26, No. 102 (Nov., 1988), pp. 121-127</ref> | ||
| In ] he was auditor of the ], gained a first-class degree in history in 1929 followed by a first class master's degree in 1931 with the National University of Ireland prize.<ref>Aidan Clarke, "Robert Dudley Edwards (1909-88)", ''Irish Historical Studies'', Vol. 26, No. 102 (Nov., 1988), pp. 121-127</ref> There followed a travelling studentship to London, where he he carried out postgraduate work at the ] which resulted in the award of a PhD in 1933, published in 1935 as ''Church and State in Tudor Ireland''. Along with ] he founded the Irish Historical Society in 1936, and its journal ''Irish Historical Studies'' was first published in 1938. | In ] he was auditor of the ], gained a first-class degree in history in 1929 followed by a first class master's degree in 1931 with the National University of Ireland prize.<ref>Aidan Clarke, "Robert Dudley Edwards (1909-88)", ''Irish Historical Studies'', Vol. 26, No. 102 (Nov., 1988), pp. 121-127</ref> There followed a travelling studentship to London, where he he carried out postgraduate work at the ] which resulted in the award of a PhD in 1933, published in 1935 as ''Church and State in Tudor Ireland''. Along with ] he founded the Irish Historical Society in 1936, and its journal ''Irish Historical Studies'' was first published in 1938. | ||
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Robert Walter Dudley Edwards (known to his friends as Robin, and to his students as 'Dudley') (4 June 1909 – 5 June 1988) was an Irish historian.
He was born in Dublin. His father was Walter Dudley Edwards, a journalist - 'an unassuming and well-read Englishman of liberal inclinations and Liberal association' - in the words of Aidan Clarke - who came to Ireland with his wife, born Bridget Teresa MacInerney from Clare, and eventually became a civil servant. Educated first at the Catholic University School, Robert was removed by his parents to St. Enda's School after the 1916 rising, and then Synge Street CBS, finally returning to the Catholic University School. In his final exams he failed French and Irish but gained first place in Ireland in history.
In University College Dublin he was auditor of the Literary and Historical Society, gained a first-class degree in history in 1929 followed by a first class master's degree in 1931 with the National University of Ireland prize. There followed a travelling studentship to London, where he he carried out postgraduate work at the University of London which resulted in the award of a PhD in 1933, published in 1935 as Church and State in Tudor Ireland. Along with Theo Moody he founded the Irish Historical Society in 1936, and its journal Irish Historical Studies was first published in 1938.
In 1937 he was awarded a DLitt by the National University of Ireland and in 1939 was appointed to a statutory lectureship in Modern Irish History at University College Dublin. He succeeded Mary Hayden to the Chair of Modern Irish History in 1944, which he held until he retired in 1979. His contribution to the discipline of history in Ireland was substantial, and included the setting up of the university archives.
His daughter Ruth Dudley Edwards is an Irish historian, crime novelist, journalist and broadcaster, and his son Owen Dudley Edwards is a historian at the University of Edinburgh.
References
- Aidan Clarke, "Robert Dudley Edwards (1909-88)", Irish Historical Studies, Vol. 26, No. 102 (Nov., 1988), pp. 121-127
- Aidan Clarke, "Robert Dudley Edwards (1909-88)", Irish Historical Studies, Vol. 26, No. 102 (Nov., 1988), pp. 121-127
- National Archives of Ireland, Census 1911
- Aidan Clarke, "Robert Dudley Edwards (1909-88)", Irish Historical Studies, Vol. 26, No. 102 (Nov., 1988), pp. 121-127
- Aidan Clarke, "Robert Dudley Edwards (1909-88)", Irish Historical Studies, Vol. 26, No. 102 (Nov., 1988), pp. 121-127