herring—or more precisely a trout! But even when most discursive he is good company... He brings both freshness and penetration of observation to the Cotswold scene, where as much as anywhere on our island, the works of Nature and man are one. Stephen Gwynn was awarded an honorary D.Litt. by the National University of Ireland in 1940, and a Litt.D. by the University of Dublin in 1945. The Irish Academy of Letters awarded him the Gregory Medal in April 1950. In his literary writings he stood for a humanism and tolerance, which qualities, due to political upheavals, were relatively rare in the Ireland of his day. He died on 11 June 1950 at his home in Terenure, Dublin and was buried at Tallaght cemetery, south County Dublin. Family Stephen Gwynn married his cousin Mary Louisa (d. 1941), daughter of Revd. James Gwynn. She later converted to Catholicism. They had three sons and two daughters who were brought up in her religion, of whom Aubrey (1892–1983) became a Jesuit priest and professor of medieval history at University College, Dublin. Their second son Denis Rolleston (1893–1971) was professor of modern Irish history at University College, Cork. Stephen Gwynn's brother Edward John (1868–1941) became provost of Trinity College and another brother Robin (Robert Malcolm) became its senior dean. His sister Lucy Gwynn was the first woman registrar of Trinity. A third brother, Charles, had a successful career in the British Army and retired as a Major General. Younger brothers Lucius and Jack were noted cricketers. Photographs Works Memorials of an Eighteenth Century Painter (James Northcote) (1898) Highways and Byways in Donegal and Antrim (1899) Tennyson (1899) The decay of Sensibility (1900) The Old Knowledge (1901) The Queen's Chronicler (1901) (collection of poems) Today and Tomorrow in Ireland (1903) Henry Grattan and his Times (1904; reissued 1971) The Masters of English Literature (1904) Thomas Moore (1905) The fair hills of Ireland (1906; second edition 1914) A Holiday in Connemara (1909) Robert Emmet: a historical romance (1909) The case for Home Rule (1911) (introduction by John Redmond) Beautiful Ireland: Pictured by Alexander Williams; described by Stephen Gwynn (1911) Battle Songs for the Irish Brigade (1915), (collected, with Tom Kettle) For Second Reading: Attempts to Please (1918) John Redmond's last years (1919) The Irish Situation (1921) History of Ireland (1923) Collected poems (1923) Ireland (1924) Experiences of a Literary Man (autobiography) (1926) In Praise of France