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5 unusual facts about John Joseph Lee


Congested Districts Board for Ireland

Irish historian Joseph Lee in his book The Modernisation of Irish Society evaluated the CDB in the following words: "The Board's promise, in short, generally far exceeded its promise" (p. 129).

John Joseph Lee

In 1993, he was elected to the 20th Seanad Éireann as an independent member for the National University of Ireland constituency.

John Redmond

However the Irish historian J. J. Lee wrote: "Redmond could have tactically done nothing other than support the British war campaign; . . . nobody committed to Irish unity could have behaved other than Redmond did at the time. Otherwise, there would be no chance whatever of a united Ireland, in which Redmond passionately believed".

Joseph Lee

John Joseph Lee (Joe Lee or J.J. Lee), Irish historian and Senator

Kells, County Meath

For a discussion on the accuracy of pre-famine census returns see JJ Lee “On the accuracy of the pre-famine Irish censuses” in Irish Population, Economy and Society edited by JM Goldstrom and LA Clarkson (1981) p54, and also “New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700-1850” by Joel Mokyr and Cormac Ó Gráda in The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol.



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