Terence Dooley

Terence Dooley is author of the best-selling book The Decline of the Big House in Ireland, published in 2001.

A riveting social history documenting the ‘big houses’ in Ireland and those who lived in them, this book covers the period from 1850, when these estates were in their glory years right through to the eventual decline in the 1950’s. In 2003, Terence wrote The Greatest of the Fenians for Wolfhound Press.

Terence is a Professor at the Department of Modern History, NUI Maynooth, as the NUI Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities. His other published works include; The Plight of Monaghan Protestants (2000) and A Sources Guide to the History of Irish Landed Estates (2000), as well as numerous articles in various journals.