Professor Roy Foster

MA., Ph.D., D.Litt(Hons), Hons.Litt D., FRSL., FRHistS., FBA.
Carroll Professor of Irish History

Hertford College

Email: roy.foster@hertford.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests

Professor Foster has written widely on Irish history, society and politics in the modern period, as well as on Victorian high politics and culture; and the authorised biography of Yeats. He is currently working on Ireland in the late 20th Century.

Selected Publications:

• Charles Stewart Parnell: the Man and his Family. (Brighton, 1976) xx + 403pp.
• Lord Randolph Churchill: a Political Life. (Oxford, 1981) xii + 430pp.
• Modern Ireland 1600-1972. (London, 1988) xiii + 688pp.
• Paddy and Mr Punch: Connections in Irish and English History. (London, 1993) xvii + 382pp.
• W.B. Yeats, A Life, Volume I: The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914. (Oxford, 1997) xxi + 640pp.
• The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making it up in Ireland. (Oxford , 2002) 282pp.
• ''Something to Hate: intimate enemities in Irish history'. Irish Review', . (2003) pp. 13
• 'Yeats and the death of Lady Gregory. Irish University Review', . Vol 34 (2004) pp. 13
• W.B. Yeats, A Life, II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939. (London, 2005) 798pp.
• ''Conquering England'. Ireland in Victorian London' in 'Conquering England'. (London, 2005) pp. 80
• ''Orpen and the new Ireland' in Robert Upstone (ed), William Orpen: politics, sex and death' in . (London, 2005) pp. 13
• ''"Old Ireland and Himself": William Orpen and the Conflicts of Irish identity' in Estudios Irlandeses', . Vol 1 (2005) pp. 12
• 'Vidas Literarias y cuestiones nacionales: el caso de yeats y el relato sobre Irlanda' in El Otro, el mismo: biografia y autobiografia en europa (siglos xvii-xx). Vol 1 (Valencia, 2005) pp. 283-298
• ''Something Of Us Will Remain': Sebastian Barry And Irish History'' in Out Of History: Essays On The Writings Of Sebastian Barry. (Dublin and Washington DC, 2006) pp. 183-198

Future Publications:

• The Strange Death of Romantic Ireland 1970-2000. (London, 2007) c. 250pp.
• 'Changed Utterly? Transformation And Continuity In Late Twentieth-Century Ireland [The 2005 Creighton Lecture, University Of London]', Historical Research. Vol 80(209) (2007) pp. 419-441
• Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change 1970-2000. (2007) 228pp.

Research Interests and Activities

• Modern Britain and Europe