author
T. M. (Timothy Michael) Healy
1855–1931
An Irish political firebrand with a sharp pen, he moved easily between journalism, law, and public life. His books and memoirs bring readers close to the fierce arguments and personalities that shaped modern Ireland.
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The great fraud of Ulster
by T. M. (Timothy Michael) Healy
About the author
Born in Bantry, County Cork, in 1855, Timothy Michael Healy became known first as a journalist and then as one of the most combative figures in Irish public life. He worked in England while still young, wrote as a parliamentary correspondent, and soon built a reputation as a gifted speaker and relentless political tactician.
Healy served as an Irish nationalist MP, later became a barrister, and eventually held one of the highest offices in the new Irish state as the first governor-general of the Irish Free State. Alongside politics, he also wrote extensively, producing memoirs and political reflections that capture the tensions, rivalries, and ambitions of his era.
He died in 1931, but his writing still offers a vivid way into the struggles around Home Rule, agrarian reform, and the making of modern Ireland. Readers coming to his work today will find not just history, but the voice of someone who helped make it.