Ruth Dudley Edwards

Ruth Dudley Edwards
Born (1944-05-24) May 24, 1944 (age 80)
Dublin, Ireland
NationalityIrish
Alma materGirton College, Cambridge
Wolfson College, Cambridge
GenreNon-fiction
ParentsRobert Dudley Edwards
RelativesOwen Dudley Edwards (brother)

Ruth Dudley Edwards (born 24 May 1944) is an Irish Unionist[1] historian and writer, with published work in the fields of history, biography and crime fiction, and a number of awards won. Born in Dublin, Ireland, she has lived in England since 1965, and describes herself as British-Irish.[2] Her revisionist approach to Irish history and her views have sometimes generated controversy or ridicule.[3][4][5] She has been a columnist with the Irish Sunday Independent, the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, and The News Letter.[6]

  1. ^ Edwards, Ruth Dudley (1 February 2022). "Ruth Dudley Edwards: It's official – I am now a unionist!". Belfast News Letter. Belfast. Archived from the original on 1 February 2022. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  2. ^ Dudley Edwards, Ruth (26 July 2013). "It's high time Ireland learned to embrace its Britishness". Belfast Telegraph.
  3. ^ Dudley Edwards, Ruth. "Confessions of an Irish Revisionist" in (Homberger, Eric; Charmley, John ed. "The Troubled face of biography") New York : St. Martin's Press, (1988). ISBN 9780312013295.
  4. ^ [@ruthde (23 November 2015). "Every historian should be a revisionist, i.e. someone who constantly revises opinions in the light of new evidence" (Tweet) – via Twitter.]
  5. ^ "Ruth Dudley Edwards urges Queens University audience to ignore 'well known eccentric' - Indymedia Ireland". www.indymedia.ie.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference RDE_AKane_2020 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).