About the Author

Tom Garvin is professor of Politics at University College Dublin. His books include Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland (1987), 1922: the Birth of Irish Democracy (1996), and Preventing the Future: Why was Ireland so poor for so long? (2004) . He is also the author of many articles and chapters on Irish and comparative politics. He is an alumnus of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C., and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He has taught at the University of Georgia, Colgate University and Mount Holyoke College.