Caulfield, Malachy Francis (‘Max’) (1915–97), journalist, broadcaster, and author, was born 10 May 1915 in Agincourt Ave., Belfast, eldest of two sons and two daughters of Malachy Caulfield, civil servant, of Co. Roscommon, and Julia Caulfield (née Campion) of Dublin. Educated at a CBS in Belfast and at Garvey College, Belfast, he became a reporter with the Irish News in 1938. He joined the Daily Express in London in 1942 and went on to become its foreign editor, before spending many years as news editor with Independent Television News. He published several moderately acclaimed novels and works of non-fiction, incuding The black city (1952), Night of terror (1958), and The Irish mystique (1973). In 1964 he published the best-selling The Easter rebellion, a compelling account of the events surrounding the 1916 rising, in which he combined his skills as a journalist and a novelist with rigorous research to paint a vivid picture of the rebels and their deeds.
He played tennis and golf and had an abiding interest in history, classical music, and travel, and also in Irish affairs: he returned frequently. He died 2 April 1997 in Pinner, Middlesex. He married (September 1943) Mary McCoy in London; they had two daughters.