Francis Stewart Leland Lyons (1923–1983) was one of Ireland's premier historians. He was born in Derry, Northern Ireland and was educated at Tunbridge Wells, The High School, Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin.^[1]

He was a lecturer in history at Hull University and at Trinity College, Dublin, before becoming Professor of History at Kent University in 1964.^[1] He become the first Professor of Modern History at the University of Kent at Canterbury,^[2] serving also as Master of Eliot College from 1969 to 1972.^[3]

Lyons became Provost of Trinity College, Dublin in 1974, but relinquished the post in 1981 to concentrate on writing. His work, Charles Stewart Parnell won the Heinemann Prize in 1978. He won the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize and the Wolfson Literary Prize for History for his book Culture and Anarchy in Ireland, 1890-1939, published in 1979. He was awarded honorary doctorates by five universities and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the British Academy and was Visiting Professor at Princeton University.^[1] His principal works include Ireland Since the Famine (the standard university textbook for Irish history from the mid-19th to late-20th century) and a biography of Charles Stewart Parnell. He died in Dublin in 1983.

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Lyons works include:

• The Irish Parliamentary Party, 1890-1910 (1951)
• The Fall of Parnell 1890-91 (1960)
• John Dillon: A Biography (1968)
• Ireland Since the Famine (1971)
• Charles Stewart Parnell (1977)
• Culture and Anarchy in Ireland, 1890-1939 (1979)

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[edit] External links

• http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/authors/l/Lyons,FSL/life.htm

Academic offices
Preceded by Albert Joseph McConnell	Provost of Trinity College, Dublin 1974–1981	Succeeded by William Arthur Watts