O'Grady, Standish James (1846–1928)

Irish historian and novelist. He was born in Castletown Bere and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. O'Grady is best known for his History of Ireland: Heroic Period (1878), which kindled interest in the legendary material used by later writers of the Irish literary revival. Among his historical romances are Finn and his Companions (1892), The Bog of Stars (1893), In the Wake of King James (1896), The Flight of the Eagle (1897), and In the Gates of the North (1901).

O'Grady also edited Thomas Stafford's Pacata Hibernia (1896), and was owner–editor of the Kilkenny Moderator and the All-Ireland Review.