Joseph Johnston

Joseph Johnston (20 August 1890 – 1972) was an Irish academic, farmer, writer and politician. He was born in 1890 in Toomog townland, Castlecaulfield, County Tyrone, to John Johnston, a national school teacher, and the former Mary Geddis. He came from a Presbyterian family of Ulster-Scots descent. He was educated at Dungannon Royal School (1902–06), Trinity College Dublin (1906–10, BA (Mod) in Classics) and Lincoln College, Oxford (1910–12). He supported Home Rule and was the author of Civil War in Ulster (1913) and The Nemesis of Economic Nationalism (1934). He became Professor of Applied Economics in Trinity College Dublin in 1939.