Carla King Book Launch

Michael Davitt after the Land League, 1882-1906 Book Launch

The launch took place on the St. Patrick's Campus on Wednesday 23 November of Carla King's monumental biography of Michael Davitt.  Published by UCD Press, Michael Davitt after the Land League, 1882-1906, provides the eagerly and long awaited companion to T.W. Moody's Davitt and Irish revolution, 1846-82 (1981).  The result of an exhaustive examination of Davitt's extensive papers, and those of his contemporaries in many countries, the availability of this works means that scholars, students and readers generally are now in a position definitively to trace the life and career of an endlessly fascinating and compelling figure.

The book is available from UCD Press and all good bookstores.