Roy Foster
Daniel Snowman meets the historian of modern Ireland and biographer of Yeats.
On the face of it, there is nothing particularly controversial about the Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford. With his mop of hair and casual-chic style, Robert Fitzroy Foster seems the very model of the modern don, a thoughtful, sophisticated historian at ease among books and bookmen, whose own erudite, elegant writings have won widespread plaudits.
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