Jonathan Eric Bardon OBE (born in Dublin, 1941 – died in Belfast, 21 April 2020), was an Irish historian and author.
[1] Shortly thereafter, in 1964, he moved to Belfast to begin his teaching career at Orangefield Boys Secondary School.
[1] Living in Northern Ireland as a young man during the beginning of the Troubles, he credits two things that piqued his fascination with it, while remaining nonpolitical: his early teaching experiences educating young boys, both Catholic and Protestant, in Belfast; and a five feature commission he received from the now-defunct Sunday Times to write about and research the Battle of the Somme.
The book examines, in detail, the cultural, social, economic, and political arenas of the province, beginning with the early settlements and progressing linearly to present-day Ulster.
Most recently he was commissioned by BBC Radio to create a two hundred and forty-episode series entitled A Short History of Ireland.