Roy Foster

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Foster, Roy [Robert Fitzroy] (1949- ); historian and man of letters. Born in Waterford and educated there and at TCD. He lectured at London University, becoming Carroll Professor of Irish History at Oxford in 1991. Besides his Modern Ireland (1988), summarizing the tendency of historical revisionism, he published the first volume of the authorized biography of W.B. Yeats in 1997.

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