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Ian Cantwell - Biography

Ian Cantwell (1949-) has spent the last thirty years as a researcher in Market Research, History, Drug Addiction and Rehabilitation, Community Development, Geography, and Medieval Climate. He has published articles and was editor of the Roundwood and District History and Folklore Society Journal, 1995-8. Inspired by his father, Brian J. Cantwell FRSAI FIGRS (1914-1992) he conducted a similar survey in the maritime western parts of Cos. Mayo and Galway, in the late 1980s. Memorials of the Dead, Counties Galway & Mayo (Western Seabord) was published by Eneclann in 2002.

Ian has also completed the mammoth task of compiling the works of his father into one volume, Brian J. Cantwell's Memorials of the Dead, The Collected Works, published in 2005 by Eneclann.

Both of the above collections are available to search on Irish Origins.