Stanford: William Bedell Stanford Memoirs
Regius Professor of Greek 1940-80 Trinity College Dublin
Author: William Bedell Stanford
Published: May 2001
Pages: 256 (hardback)
Weight: 580g
Price: €30.00
ISBN: 0-9528236-2-4
W. B. Stanford lived through the transition of the south of Ireland from the United Kingdom to the Republic. A member of the Irish Senate for 20 years, he epitomised the change of outlook of those whose background had been Southern Unionist.Published: May 2001
Pages: 256 (hardback)
Weight: 580g
Price: €30.00
ISBN: 0-9528236-2-4
He was a participant in many of the controversial issues in the 1950s and 1960s, such as the Fethard boycott of Protestant businesses and the take-over of the Meath Hospital by the Knights of Columbanus, which can now be seen as turning points towards the creation of a pluralist society in Ireland.
In these autobiographical reflections he deals with the attitude of minority and majority in those formative years for the Republic of Ireland.