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Meda Ryan


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Bandon, Cork, Ireland
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MEDA RYAN, historian and author, is a native of West Cork and now lives in Ennis, Clare; she has participated in television and radio documentaries and has had articles published in a wide variety of history magazines and journals, plus national and local newspapers.
She was was widowed when her Husband, Donal Ryan, passed away in Ennis, Clare in 2013, who was also a native of Cork.

Ryan developed a strong interest in the Irish revolutionary period, and interviewed many veterans of the old IRA. For this reason, she has a huge amount of respect for these individuals and famously was involved in a dispute with Canadian historian Peter Hart on IRA Commandant Tom Barry. This prompted Ryan to write an extended biography of Tom Barry. Her fist Bio
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Average rating: 3.89 · 246 ratings · 22 reviews · 11 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Day Michael Collins was...

3.84 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1979 — 7 editions
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Tom Barry: IRA Freedom Fighter

4.16 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions
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Biddy Early: The Wise Woman...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1978 — 5 editions
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The Real Chief Liam Lynch: ...

4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions
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Michael Collins and the Wom...

3.40 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions
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Michael Collins and the Wom...

3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
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Thomas Kent: 16 Lives

3.18 avg rating — 11 ratings2 editions
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The Day Michael Collins was...

4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings2 editions
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The Tom Barry story

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1982
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Real Chief

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