Author:Augustine Birrell

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Augustine Birrell
(1850–1933)

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English politician, barrister, academic and author. Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 to 1916

This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "A. B-l."

Works

Life of Charlotte Brontë (1887) IA
England's Helicon. A collection of lyrical and pastoral poems: published in 1600 (1887) IA
Res judicatae: papers and essays (1893) IA
Essays about men, women and books(1896) IA
Sir Frank Lockwood; a biographical sketch (1898) IA
Miscellanies (1901) IA
William Hazlitt (1902) IA
Andrew Marvell (1905) IA
In the name of the Bodleian, and other essays (1905) IA
Men, women, and books (1910) IA
Obiter dicta (July 1905) IA
More Obiter Dicta IA
Concerning solicitors, by one them (1920) IA
Frederick Locker-Lampson, a character sketch, with a small selection from letters addressed to him and bibliographical notes on a few of the books formerly in the Rowfant library (1920) IA
The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 Volume 1) (1922) IA 1, IA 2

Lectures

The duties and liabilities of trustees; six lectures delivered in the Inner Temple during the Hilary sittings, 1896, at the request of he Council of legal education (1897) IA
Four lectures on the law of employers' liability at home and abroad (1897) IA
Emerson, a lecture (1903) IA

Contributions to the DNB

Lockwood, Frank

Works about Birrell

"Birrell, Augustine, M.P., LL.D.," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
"Birrell, Augustine," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Birrell, Augustine," in Men-at-the-Bar (v. 2nd ed.), by Foster, J., London: Hazel, Watson and Viney, Limited (1885)

Related papers

Birrell, Augustine (1850-1933), author and statesman 166525 in the National Register of Archives

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.

This author died in 1933, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 91 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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