 His work, "La represión nacionalista de Granada en 1936 y la muerte de Federico García Lorca" ("The Nationalist Repression of Granada in 1936 and the Death of Federico García Lorca") was banned in Spain under Franco.Born into a Methodist Dublin family, he was educated at Newtown School in Waterford and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin.He taught modern Spanish literature at Queen's University Belfast and the University of London before moving to Spain.