Gerard A. Hayes-McCoy (1911–1975) was an Irish historian regarded as one of the leading Irish historians of his generation.
Life
Family
Gerard Anthony Hayes-McCoy was born in Galway on 15 August 1911, of Thomas Hayes-McCoy and Mary Kathleen Hayes-McCoy (née Wallace). His grandfather Thomas Hayes-McCoy had been a Dubliner who as a child came to Galway in 1834; he was later a well-known Parnellite. His maternal grandfather, Thomas Burke, had been a Galway artist. Hayes-McCoy grew up on Eyre Square where his father ran a gentleman's hairdressing business.
Publications (selected)
- 1937: Scots Mercenary Forces in Ireland, 1565–1603, reprinted 1996
- 1942: Index to "The Compossicion Booke of Conought 1585"
- 1959: Sixteenth Century Irish Swords in the National Museum of Ireland
- 1963: Historical Studies IV: papers read before the Fifth Irish Conference of Historians (editor)
- 1964: The Irish at War
- 1964: Ulster and Other Irish Maps, c. 1600.
- 1965: Captain Myles Walter Keogh, United States Army 1840–1876 (O'Donnell lecture)
- 1969: Irish Battles: a military history of Ireland, reprinted 1990
- 1979: A History of Irish Flags from Earliest Times (posthumous)
- unknown
- The Red Coat and the Green
- Essays in Commemoration – 1798 (contributor)