Simon Frederick Peter Halliday (22 February 1946 – 26 April 2010) was an Irish writer and academic specialising in international relations and the Middle East, with particular reference to the Cold War, Iran, and the Arabian peninsula.
Biography
Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1946 to an English father, businessman Arthur Halliday, and an Irish mother, Rita (née Finigan), From 1950 to 1953, Halliday attended the Marist School, Dundalk (at that time the primary school for St Mary's College, Dundal...