Robert Dunlop (historian)

Robert Dunlop (12 March 1861 – 6 October 1930) was a British historian who specialized in the history of Ireland.

His first significant work was to make a calendar of the documents in the Irish Record Office relating to the Cromwellian settlement of Ireland, plus some from Trinity College, Dublin.

[1] Early in the twentieth century Dunlop was appointed as Lecturer in Irish History at the University of Manchester and held the position for some ten years.

[5] By 1919, Dunlop had been living for several years in Austria, his wife’s native land, and in February he wrote an article on the situation there following the Assembly elections of 1919, the first after the end of the First World War, won by the Social Democrats.

He got little compensation, but his problems were relieved by a grant from the Royal Literary Fund, and in 1923 he returned to Austria, where he changed the focus of his interest in history.