William Hayes is a noted Tipperary historian based in Roscrea in Co. Tipperary. A former teacher who worked in the U.K and Australia, Willie, as he is known, was the person most instrumental in compiling and editing the massive 3 volume work on Templetuohy. He was also the man responsible for the restoration of Holycross Abbey. His other published works include Tipperary in the Year of the Rebellion 1798.
I am professor emeritus of Medieval History at Fordham University; the former Director of the Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham; and past president of the American Catholic Historical Association. My primary academic interest has been the history of medieval kingship and parliaments with particular attention to medieval Spain. I taught both undergraduates and graduates at Fordham for forty years until my retirement in 1994.
My most recent publication is Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003). My other books include: The Learned King: The Reign of Alfonso X of Castile (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993; Spanish translation, Universidad de Sevilla, 1996); Alfonso X and the Cantigas de Santa Maria: A Poetic Biography (E.J. Brill, 1998); A History of Medieval Spain (Cornell University Press, 1975); The Cortes of Castile-León, 1188-1350 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989; Spanish translation, Cortes de Castilla y León, 1989); Alfonso X, the Cortes, and Government in Medieval Spain (Ashgate/Variorum, 1998); and The Spanish Military Order of Calatrava and its Affiliates (Variorum Press, 1975. I also translated The Autobiography of St. Ignatius Loyola (Fordham University Press, 1992) and The Latin Chronicle of the Kings of Castile (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002)..
My articles have appeared in The American Historical Review; The Catholic Historical Review; Speculum; Traditio; En la España Medieval; Hispania; Viator; Miscelánea de Estiudios Medievales; Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español; Historia, Instituciones, Documentos; Cuadernos de Historia de Espana; Concentus Libri; Medievalismo; Thought; Archivos Leoneses; Analecta Sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis. Other articles have been published in collected studies, encyclopedias, and historical dictionaries.
In addition to teaching at Fordham University I also served as adjunct professor of Church History at St. Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie, New York, and at the Holy Ghost Fathers Seminary, Ferndale, Norwalk.
From my earliest years I have had an interest in Ireland and especially in the history of the O’Callaghan family. During my many years of teaching I continued to gather data about the family and published two articles on “The O Callaghans of Kilcranathan,” and “The O Callaghans and the Rebellion of 1641,” in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 92(1987), and 95 (1990). The O Callaghan Family of County Cork: A History is the fruit of my years of research on this topic.
Both my parents came from Ireland. My father William lived at Bweeng in his childhood and then at Dromcummer on the Blackwater before emigrating to the United States. My mother, Helen O’Sullivan, was born in Minnesota, the oldest child of Michael O’Sullivan from Ardnagashel, Bantry, and Margaret Ellard from Coolycarney, Wexford.
Turtle Bunbury was born in 1972 and educated in Dublin and Scotland. After graduating from Trinity College Dublin with a degree in Modern History in 1996, he moved to Hong Kong where he spent three years working as a freelance correspondent with the South China Morning Post and Business News Indochina. Since his return to Ireland in 1999, he has developed his interest in Irish and world history, contributing articles to magazines and newspapers around the world. His subsequent travels have brought him to Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Tennessee and New York. His articles have appeared in Vogue Living, The New York Post, The Irish Times Magazine, Magill, Cara, Identity, Irish Tatler, Social & Personal, Visitor and Abroad. He is also currently Homes Editor of The White Book and The Book of Interiors. Turtle’s debut book, “The Landed Gentry & Aristocracy of Co. Kildare” was published in December 2004. His second book, “The Landed Gentry & Aristocracy of Co. Wicklow” will be published in November 2005. A third book, “Living in Sri Lanka”, written in conjunction with Irish photographer James Fennell, was published by Thames & Hudson in the Spring 2006.
The Gentry & Aristocracy of Co. Kildare
The Gentry & Aristocracy of Co. Wicklow
Art Kavanagh who is the author of many other works not listed in this site (including Ireland 1798 the Battles and In the Shadow of Mount Leinster) is a highly respected historian and author from Co. Wexford. Formerly a Wexford school teacher, Art Kavanagh is now a well established publisher and writer and is based in Dublin. His extensive knowledge of the network of Gentry families in the various counties of Ireland has ensured that he is given access to many family records and data. Plans are already in place to write about the Gentry of all the counties in Ireland. Next year in 2004 he and his colleagues will publish books about the gentry of counties Kildare, Meath, Louth and Kilkenny. Publications for the following number of years have also been planned and ISBN numbers allocated.
Books by Art Kavanagh:
The Landed Gentry and Aristocracy of Kilkenny
The Landed Gentry and Aristocracy of Meath