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 Irish Road Bowling (2005) and - as 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). He has also contributed to many scholarly journals and was general editor, with Maria Luddy, of the 'Radical Irish Lives' series of biographies published by Cork University Press in 2001-2.