Books: Saluting Professor Joe Lee, a legend in Irish history circles

For close to three decades, J.J. (Joe) Lee animated Cork, UCC, and Irish history on the national and international stage.

Born in Castlegregory in 1942, Joe was educated by the Franciscans at Gormanston and went on to UCD to take a Double First in History and Economics.
A Tract For Our Times: A Retrospective On Joe Lee’s Ireland (UCD Press), edited by Miriam Nyhan Grey, is widely available in bookstores and from www.ucdpress.ie
Dr Miriam Nyhan Grey teaches at the Department of History, MIC (Limerick). Having completed her Phd at the European University Institute in Florence, she spent 15 years at New York University’s Glucksman Ireland House. She is the author of Are You Still Below?: The Ford Marina Plant, Cork, 1917-1984 (2007), the editor of Ireland’s Allies: America And The 1916 Easter Rising (2016), and the co-editor of Forged In America: How Irish-Jewish Encounters Shaped A Nation (2023). Miriam now lives in Cork and Joe is enjoying retirement in Dublin.