Ruth Dudley Edwards
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Ruth Dudley Edwards is an Irish historian, crime novelist, journalist and broadcaster.
Dudley Edwards was born and brought up in Dublin and educated at University College Dublin and Girton College, Cambridge. Her father was the distinguished Irish historian Professor Robert Dudley Edwards.
Her non-fiction books include An Atlas of Irish History, James Connolly, Victor Gollancz: A Biography (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize), The Pursuit of Reason: The Economist 1943-1993, The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions (shortlisted for Channel 4/The House Politico’s Book of the Year) and Newspapermen: Hugh Cudlipp, Cecil King and the glory days of Fleet Street. Her Patrick Pearse: the triumph of failure (winner of the National University of Ireland Prize for Historical Research), first published in 1977, has just been reissued by Irish Academic Press. At present she is finishing a book about the civil case against the Omagh bombers.
Her brother Owen Dudley Edwards is a historian at Edinburgh University.
