Fintan Lane

Fintan Lane is a Dublin-based writer and historian, specialising in the social and political history of nineteenth-century Ireland.

His books include The Origins of Modern Irish Socialism (1997), In Search of Thomas Sheahan (2001), Long Bullets: A History of Road Bowling in Ireland (2005) and - as editor or co-editor - Politics and the Irish Working Class, 1830-1945 (2005), Essays in Irish Labour History (2008), Michael Davitt: New Perspectives (2009) and Politics, Society and the Middle Class in Modern Ireland (2010).

General editor, with Maria Luddy, of the 'Radical Irish Lives' series of biographies published by Cork University Press in 2001-2, he has a particular interest in historical biography and has contributed essays on radicals James Connolly to F. Dukelow and O. O'Donovan (eds), Mobilising Classics: Reading Radical Writing in Ireland (Manchester, 2010); Benjamin Pelin to B. Casey (ed.), Defying the Law of the Land (Dublin, 2013); and William Upton to J. Cunningham and E. O'Connor (eds), Studies in Irish Radical Leadership (Manchester, 2016).

Author website: www.fintanlane.com