Life
1898-1963; b. Kilfrickle, Co. Galway; ed. Clongowes; joined Irish Volunteers and organised the Volunteers at Loughrea, Co. Galway; commanded East Clare Flying Column, 1919-21; issued Ireland in the European System (1920) and was appointed Prof. of History, UCC, taking up appointment in 1923; served in Free State National Army; fnd.-mbr. Manuscript Commission, 1928; joint-ed. of Analecta Hibernica with Eoin MacNeill; his pamphlets incl. Could Ireland Be Communist? (1935) and others for Blueshirt grouping in Cumann na nGaedheal and Fine Gael organs; issued Election and Representation (Cork UP 1945), v, 293pp.; contrib. to Studies and Proceedings of RIA. DIH
Commentary
Donnachadh Ó Corráin, ed., James Hogan: Revolutionary, Historian and Political Scientist (Dublin: Four Courts 2001), 249pp. Reviewed by Colman Cassidy (The Irish Times, 7 July 2001), with remarks: ‘Hogan viewed the Republican Congress, established by [Peadar] O’Donnell and George Gilmore in 1934 to take the gun out of Irish politics in the tradition of Michael Davitt, as, in reality, a front for communism’ and hence condemned him as ‘a leading communist agitator’; his views in Election and Representation, reviewed by Sean O’Faolain in The Bell in 1946, were anathema to O’Faolain as to O’Donnell; O’Donnell blamed him among others for the fact that he could not get a visa in order to raise money in America to save The Bell.