C. J. Woods
C.J. Woods retired in 2006 from the staff of the Royal Irish Academy, where from 1969 he was employed successively as a research assistant on A new history of Ireland, an editor of the academy’s Proceedings, a cataloguer in its library and finally as a contributor to A dictionary of Irish biography. He is the editor of Journals and memoirs of Thomas Russell, 1791‒5 (1991) and a co-editor of The writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone, 1763–98 (3 vols, 1998–2007) as well as the author of articles on O’Connell and Parnell.