Books/Writings
  • History of the Later Roman Empire
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J. B. Bury
1861 – 1927
Irish

A reclusive scholar, he was a devoted exponent of "classical studies," of classical Greece and Rome, and of Byzantium.

Contemporaries
1865–1939William Yeats
1854–1900Oscar Wilde
1892–1963Patrick Twomey
1871–1909J. M. Synge
1847–1912Bram Stoker
1825–1901James Stephens
1874–1922Sir Ernest Shackleton
1867–1935George Russell
1919–1999Dame Iris Murdoch
1879–1920Terence MacSwiney
1838–1903William Lecky
1882–1941James Joyce
1865–1922Alfred Harmsworth
fl. c. 1842–c. 1903Helen Blackburn
1923–1964Brendan Behan
1906–1989Samuel Beckett
1863–1951Daisy May Bates
1845–1905Thomas Barnardo
1818–1889John Ball
1818–1895Cecil Frances Alexander