author
Alice Stopford Green
1848–1929
An Irish historian and political writer, she used the past to argue that Ireland had a rich civic tradition of its own. Her books and public work made her an influential voice in the movement for Irish self-government and independence.
5 Audiobooks
Henry the Second
by Alice Stopford Green
Irish Nationality
by Alice Stopford Green
Town Life in the Fifteenth Century, Volume 2 (of 2)
by Alice Stopford Green
Town Life in the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1 (of 2)
by Alice Stopford Green
The Old Irish World
by Alice Stopford Green
About the author
Born in Kells, County Meath, Alice Stopford Green became known for writing history in a way that spoke directly to the political questions of her time. She lived for periods in London and married the historian John Richard Green, with whom she was closely associated before continuing her own work as a writer and researcher after his death.
Her historical writing focused strongly on Ireland, and she challenged the idea that Irish society lacked its own institutions, culture, or capacity for self-rule. That made her more than a scholar in the usual sense: she became an important intellectual figure in Irish nationalism, using history to support the case for independence.
In later life she was active in public affairs as well as in print. She supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and went on to serve in the first Seanad of the Irish Free State, linking her career as a historian with a direct role in the making of modern Ireland.