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William O'Connor Morris
1824–1904
An Irish judge who turned a sharp legal mind toward history, he wrote vividly about Ireland, the British Empire, and great military campaigns. His books mix firsthand political feeling with the wide sweep of nineteenth-century historical writing.
2 Audiobooks
Present Irish Questions
by William O'Connor Morris
Great commanders of modern times and The campaign of 1815.
by William O'Connor Morris
About the author
Born in Kilkenny on 26 November 1824, William O'Connor Morris became an Irish county court judge as well as a prolific historian and public writer. Sources agree that he was educated at Epsom and at Oriel College, Oxford, and that family circumstances altered the course of his early plans, pushing him away from a military career and toward law and public life.
Alongside his legal work, he built a substantial reputation as an author. He wrote on Irish affairs, imperial politics, and military history, and is especially associated with books on the Irish land question, the French Revolution and First Empire, and the rise of England in India. That mix of subjects gives his work a broad, energetic feel: part political argument, part historical narrative.
He died on 3 August 1904. Remembered as both a judge and a man of letters, he stands out as a nineteenth-century writer who brought practical experience, strong opinions, and a wide historical range to everything he published.