Denis Rolleston Gwynn was an Irish journalist, writer and professor of modern Irish history. He served in the British Army in World War I.
Occupation
non-fiction writer, journalist, historian, university teacher
Born
1893, March 6, 1893
Died
1973, January 10, 1973
Overview
Denis Rolleston Gwynn (1893–1973) was an Irish journalist, writer and professor of modern Irish history. He served in the British Army in World War I.
Life
Denis Gwynn was born on 6 March 1893, the third son of Stephen Gwynn, the Irish patriot, writer and Irish Parliamentary Party Member of Parliament. His mother was Mary ('May') Louisa Osborn Gwynn; his parents were first cousins. The middle name Rolleston was derived from Denis Gwynn's great grandmother Catherine Rolleston, who married his great grandfather John Gwynne.
Along with his mother and siblings, but not his father, Denis Gwynn was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1902. He was educated at St. Enda's School Rathfarnham, Clongowes Wood College and at University College Dublin where he graduated BA (1914), MA (1915) and D.Litt. (1932).
During World War I, in 1916, Gwynn enlisted in the Royal Munster Fusiliers. He served on the Western Front in France from 1916 to 1917, but was then invalided home and worked for the remainder of the war at the British Ministry of Information.
