David Lawlor
Associate Editor of The Herald newspaper in Ireland, David has written three historical fiction novels, Tan, The Golden Grave an A Time of Traitors, set in the 1920s during the Irish War of Independence and following the character Liam Mannion. David Lawlor is a native of Navan, from where his family's bakery business traded throughout Meath for generations up to 1970. He is great-grandson, grandson and grand-nephew, respectively, of William, Daniel and James Lawlor who appear in his book "Divine Right? the Parnell Split in Meath".