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Daithí Ó Corráin

Dr Daithí Ó Corráin is associate professor of history in the DCU School of History and Geography. A former Government of Ireland Research Scholar in the Humanities and Social Sciences, he completed his PhD at Trinity College Dublin in 2004. Daithí's broad research interests are 19th and 20th century Irish political, cultural and religious history. At present he specializes in the history of the Irish Revolution, 1912-23 and in the history of Irish Catholicism. He is co-author of the acclaimed The Dead of the Irish Revolution (Yale University Press, 2020), and co-editor of the landmark Irish Revolution series published by Four Courts Press. His most recent book (with Dr Gerard Hanley) is Cathal Brugha: 'an indomitable spirit' (Four Courts Press, 2022).

Book

	Year	Publication
	2022	Daithí Ó Corráin & Gerard Hanley (2022) Cathal Brugha: 'an indomitable spirit'. Dublin: Four Courts Press.
	2020	Eunan O'Halpin & Daithí Ó Corráin (2020) The Dead of the Irish Revolution. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
	2006	Daithí Ó Corráin (2006) Rendering to God and Caesar: The Irish Churches and the Two States in Ireland, 1949-73. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Book Chapter

	Year	Publication
	2024	Daithí; Ó Corráin (2024) 'The Catholic Church and the Irish State, 1916-1973' In: Oxford Handbook of Religion in Ireland. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
	2023	Daithí Ó Corráin (2023) 'The Travails of Contemporary Irish Catholicism from John Paul II to Pope Francis' In: The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, Vol. 5 Volume V: Recapturing the Apostolate of. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
	2023	Daithí Ó Corráin (2023) 'Of Faith and Fatherland: Churches and States in Ireland from the Act of Union to the Belfast Agreement, 1800-1998’' In: The Palgrave Handbook of Religion and State, Vol. II. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan. [Link] https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35609-4_9
	2023	(2023) '‘Return them to power with sufficient strength to complete their work’: the Roman Catholic Church and the 1923 General Election' In: Vying For Victory The 1923 General Election in the Irish Free State. Dublin : UCD Press.
	2023	(2023) 'Illuminating the tragedies of Kerry: the Military Service Pensions Collection and the Civil War in Kerry' In: A Very Hard Struggle - Lives in the MSPC. Dublin : Department of Defence.
	2023	Daithí Ó Corráin (2023) 'Map images and hard-headed pragmatism: the Roman Catholic Church and the two Irish states' In: Machnamh 100: Centenary Reflections. Vol. 2 President Michael D. Higgins. Dublin : Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts.
	2022	Daithí Ó Corráin (2022) '‘Martin McGuire and Glin Industrial School: How in God’s Name?' In: Of Limerick: saints and seekers. Dublin : Veritas.
	2022	Daithí Ó Corráin (2022) 'Weaponising the Sacraments: the Roman Catholic Church and Civil War' In: Ireland 1922: Independence, Partition, Civil War. Dublin : RIA.
	2019	Daithí Ó Corráin (2019) 'Fluctuating Fortunes: St Patrick’s College, 1875-2016' In: Ceol Phádraig: Music at St Patrick's College Drumcondra, 1875-2016. Oxford : Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b16407
	2018	Daithí Ó Corráin (2018) 'Catholicism in Ireland, 1880-2015: rise, ascendancy and retreat' In: Cambridge History of Ireland Vol. 4. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316286470.029
	2017	Daithí Ó Corráin with Colin Barr (2017) 'Catholic Ireland, 1740-2016' In: Cambridge social history of modern Ireland. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
	2016	Daithí Ó Corráin (2016) 'Archbishop William Joseph Walsh' In: The shaping of modern Ireland: a centenary reassessment. Kildare : Irish Academic Press.
	2016	Daithí Ó Corráin (2016) ''A cause worth dying for: the last letters of Pearse, MacDonagh and Clarke' In: Death and the Irish: a miscellany. Dublin : Wordwell.
	2016	Daithí Ó Corráin (2016) 'Éamonn Ceannt: the Pope’s Uilleann Piper' In: The End of All Things Earthly: Faith Profiles of the 1916 Leaders. Dublin : Veritas Publications.
	2014	Daithí Ó Corráin (2014) '“Resigned to take the bill with its defects”: the Catholic Church and the third Home Rule bill' In: The Home Rule Crisis, 1912-14 (Cork studies in the Irish Revolution). Cork : Mercier Press.
	2008	Daithí Ó Corráin (2008) 'Articles 41 and 44: Minority Religious Opinion 1937-1980' In: The Irish Constitution: Governance and Values. Dublin : Thomson Round Hall.
	2008	Daithí Ó Corráin (2008) 'If a house be divided against itself that house cannot stand”: The Church of Ireland and the political border' In: Irish Protestant Identities. Manchester : Manchester University Press.
	2006	Daithí Ó Corráin (2006) '“We shall find a way through”: The Church of Ireland, state prayers and liturgical realities' In: The Clergy of the Church of Ireland, 1000-2000: Messengers, Watchmen and Stewards. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
	2005	Daithí Ó Corráin (2005) 'Semper fidelis : Eugene O'Callaghan, bishop of Clogher (1943-1969)' In: History of the diocese of Clogher. Ed. Jefferies, Henry A., Dublin : Four Courts, 2005. 249 p.

Edited Book

	Year	Publication
	2023	Daithí Ó Corráin & Mary Ann Lyons (Ed.). (2023) Daniel Purcell, Fermanagh: the Irish Revolution, 1912-23. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
	2023	Daithí Ó Corráin & Mary Ann Lyons (Ed.). (2023) Joost Augusteijn, Mayo: the Irish Revolution, 1912-23. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
	2022	Daithí Ó Corráin & Marian Lyons (Ed.). (2022) Pauric Travers, Donegal: the Irish Revolution, 1912-23. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
	2021	Daithí Ó Corráin & Marian Lyons (Ed.). (2021) Antrim: the Irish Revolution, 1912-23. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
	2021	Daithí Ó Corráin & Marian Lyons (Ed.). (2021) John Burke, Roscommon: the Irish Revolution, 1912-23. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
	2020	Daithí Ó Corráin & Professor Marian Lyons (Ed.). (2020) Pat McGarty, Leitrim: the Irish Revolution, 1912-1923. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
	2020	Daithí Ó Corráin & Professor Marian Lyons (Ed.). (2020) Seamus Cullen, Kildare: The Irish Revolution, 1912-1923. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
	2019	Daithí Ó Corráin & Professor Marian Lyons (Ed.). (2019) Donal Hall, Louth: the Irish Revolution, 1912-23. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
	2018	Daithí Ó Corráin & Professor Marian Lyons (Ed.). (2018) Adrian Grant, Derry: the Irish Revolution, 1912-23. Dublin: Four Courts Press, [Link]
	2018	Daithí Ó Corráin & Professor Marian Lyons (Ed.). (2018) John O'Callaghan, Limerick: the Irish Revolution, 1912-23. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
	2017	Daithí Ó Corráin & Professor Marian Lyons (Ed.). (2017) Terence Dooley, Monaghan: the Irish Revolution, 1912-23. Dublin: Four Courts Press, [Link]
	2015	Daithí Ó Corráin & Professor Marian Lyons (Ed.). (2015) Pat McCarthy, Waterford: the Irish Revolution, 1912-23. Dublin: Four Courts Press, [Link]
	2014	Daithí Ó Corráin & Professor Marian Lyons (Ed.). (2014) Fergal McCluskey, Tyrone: the Irish Revolution, 1912-23. Dublin: Four Courts Press, [Link]
	2012	Daithí Ó Corráin & Professor Marian Lyons (Ed.). (2012) Michael Farry, Sligo: the Irish Revolution, 1912-23:. Dublin: Four Courts Press, [Link]

Peer Reviewed Journal

	Year	Publication
	2023	Daithí Ó Corráin & Kieran Waldron (2023) 'Upholding the commandments and the will of the majority: the Catholic hierarchy, the October 1922 pastoral, and the Irish Civil War’'. Archivium Hibernicum, 76 :99-124.
	2021	Daithí Ó Corráin (2021) 'Why did Pope John Paul II visit Ireland? The 1979 papal visit in context [Open Access]'. British Catholic History, 35 (4):462-485. [Link] https://www.doi.org/10.1017/bch.2021.19
	2020	Daithí Ó Corráin (2020) 'The pope’s man in London: Anglo-Vatican relations, the nuncio question and Irish concerns, 1938-82 [winner best article prize British Catholic History 2020]'. British Catholic History, 35 (1). https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2020.3
	2017	Daithí Ó Corráin (2017) 'Whither the National Volunteers'. Irish Sword, 31 (123):53-60.
	2016	Niamh Moore-Cherry & Daithí Ó Corráin (2016) 'The urban legacies of the Easter Rising: destruction, reconstruction and politics in Dublin’s North inner city in 1916 and 2016’'. Irish Geography, 49 (2):103-124. [Link]
	2016	Daithí Ó Corráin (2016) 'J.J. O’Connell’s memoir of the Irish Volunteers, 1915-16'. Analecta Hibernica, 47 :3-102.
	2014	Daithí Ó Corráin (2014) '“They blew up the best portion of our city and … it is their duty to replace it”: compensation and reconstruction in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising'. Irish Historical Studies, 39 (154):272-295.
	2014	Daithí Ó Corráin (2014) '“A most public spirited and unselfish man”’: the career and contribution of Colonel Maurice Moore, 1854-1939'. Studia Hibernica, 40 :71-133.
	2012	Daithí Ó Corráin (2012) 'Challenges of the Historical Survey [review article]'. The Irish Review, 45 (2012) :80-84.

Other Journal

	Year	Publication
	2020	Daithi O'Corrain (2020) 'Review of Popular Catholicism in 20th-Century Ireland: Locality, Identity and Culture. By Síle de Cléir' 46 :186-188. https://doi.org/10.3828/sh.2020.13
	2017	Daithí Ó Corráin (2017) 'Review of Niall Coll ed., Ireland & Vatican II: Essays Theological, Pastoral and Educational (Dublin: Columba Press, 2016)' .
	2016	Daithí Ó Corráin (2016) 'Review of Gemma Clark, Everyday violence in the Irish Civil War (Cambridge, 2014)' 105 (420) :521-525.
	2016	Daithí Ó Corráin (2016) 'The Church and the Changing Political Tide' 11 .
	2016	Daithí Ó Corráin (2016) 'The Soloheadbeg Ambush' 19 .
	2016	Daithí Ó Corráin (2016) 'From inception to rebellion: an overview of the Irish Volunteers, 1913-16’' :12-18.

Conference Contribution

	Year	Publication
	2023	Daithí Ó Corráin (2023) History, Memory and Legacy Civil War in Kerry and Beyond: A Centenary Conference Bullocks, Provisions and Motor Cars: compensation claims for commandeered property during the Civil War in Kerry Tralee, Co. Kerry, .
	2022	Daithí Ó Corráin (2022) Foundations of the State Conference (National Decade of Centenaries), UCD An intertwining of faith, fatherland and self-interest: church-state relations at the birth of the Irish Free State University College Dublin, .
	2022	Daithí Ó Corráin (2022) Universities Ireland 2022 conference 1922: Division, Crisis and Violence in Ireland Custodian of the republic but no warmonger: Cathal Brugha from Treaty to Civil War Queen's University Belfast, .
	2022	Daithí Ó Corráin (2022) National Conference on the Irish Civil War Faith Panel University College Cork, .
	2022	Daithí Ó Corráin (2022) Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich Memorial Library & Archive Centenary Programme The Northern Catholic Bishops and partition: from the third home rule crisis to the welfare state Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich Memorial Library & Archive, Armagh, .
	2021	Daithí Ó Corráin (2021) Catholic Historical Society Annual Conference Approaching conciliar renewal with a mixture of urgency and gradualism: Cardinal William Conway and the Second Vatican Council’ Maynooth University, .
	2021	Daithí Ó Corráin (2021) Remembering 1920 The events of Bloody Sunday’ Maynooth University, .
	2021	Daithí Ó Corráin (2021) Mallow Field Club Assessing the ascendancy and recession of Irish Catholicism over the long twentieth century Mallow, Co. Cork, .
	2019	Daithí Ó Corráin (2019) Catholic Historical Society & The Association for Church Archives of Ireland A sort of state within a state?: reflections on why church archives matter Clonliffe College, Drumcondra, 19/10/2019-19/10/2019.
	2019	Daithí Ó Corráin (2019) Parnell Summer School 2019 Keeping electoral promises: the opening of the first Dáil and the mission to Paris Avoca, .
	2019	Daithí Ó Corráin (2019) School of History and Geography Seminar The curse of war has come upon Dublin’: compensating the civilian victims of the 1916 Rising’ DCU, 12/04/2019-12/04/2019.
	2016	Daithí Ó Corráin (2016) RTE Reflecting the Rising Dublin in Ruins Dublin, 28/03/2016-28/03/2016.
	2018	Daithí Ó Corráin (2018) Borders and Boundaries: Religion on the Periphery. Joint conference by BASR-ISASR No crossing the Irish border: ecclesiastical geography, the Troubles and the 1979 papal visit Queen's University Belfast, 03/09/2018-05/09/2018.
	2018	Daithí Ó Corráin (2018) 9th International George Moore Conference: Transnational and Cosmopolitan Networks on the Page and Canvas The demise of a close brotherly affection: Maurice Moore and his querulous brother George NUI Galway, 14/06/2018-15/06/2018.
	2017	Daithí Ó Corráin (2017) Festival of History Resistance to Authority in Ireland, 1917-18 St Patrick's Campus, DCU, 06/10/2017-06/10/2017.
	2017	Daithí Ó Corráin (2017) Maynooth University History Seminar ‘Reduced to privation’: the civilian victims of the 1916 Rising and the issue of compensation Maynooth University, 16/11/2017-16/11/2017.
	2017	Daithí Ó Corráin (2017) 1917: aftermath of rebellion – a public symposium’ This public symposium examines what life in Ireland was like in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising St Patrick's Campus, DCU, 28/01/2017-28/01/2017.
	2016	Daithí Ó Corráin (2016) 1916 in context 1916 in context St Patrick’s Campus DCU, 23/01/2016-23/01/2016.
	2016	Daithí Ó Corráin (2016) Catholic Historical Society of Ireland Ireland's quiet faith crisis: why the papal visit in 1979 came too late DCU, .
	2016	Daithí Ó Corráin (2016) Conflict + The City ‘The question of compensation is a burning one’ Dublin, .
	2016	Daithí Ó Corráin (2016) Children and the Irish Revolution symposium, DCU Suffer little children: bereavement, death and compensation during the Irish Revolution DCU, 27/02/2016-27/02/2016.
	2016	Daithí Ó Corráin (2016) Military History Society of Ireland in conjunction with the Military Archives and the National Museum of Ireland ‘Whither the National Volunteers, 1914-17?’, From Sackville Street to Salonika and the Somme: Irishmen and women at war in 1916 Dublin, 12/02/2016-13/02/2016.
	2016	Daithí Ó Corráin (2016) Killorglin Centenary Public Symposium 1916 in context Killorglin, Co. Kerry, 26/03/2016-26/03/2016.
	2016	Daithí Ó Corráin (2016) 48th Conference of Irish Geographers Dublin after the 1916 Rising: a geography of destruction and reinstatement’ DCU, 05/05/2016-07/05/2016.

Online Article

	Year	Publication
	2020	Daithi O'Corrain (2020) How 1920 was one of the bloodiest years in Irish history. ELEA
	2020	Daithi O'Corrain (2020) A carnival of terrorism': the story of the Belfast riots of 1920. ELEA
	2020	Daithi O'Corrain (2020) The strange, gruesome murder of a Galway priest 100 years ago. ELEA
	2019	Daithí Ó Corráin (2019) How the first Dáil laid down Ireland's constitutional foundations (RTÉ Brainstorm). Dublin: ELEA [Link]
	2019	Daithí Ó Corráin (2019) Come out ye Black and Tans: who were the Black and Tans? (RTÉ Brainstorm). ELEA [Link]
	2018	Daithí Ó Corráin (2018) How the 1916 Rising cost €200m in compensation claims (RTÉ Brainstorm). Dublin: ELEA [Link]
	2018	Daithí Ó Corráin (2018) The Francis effect: what to expect when the pope visits Ireland (RTÉ Brainstorm). Dublin: ELEA [Link]
	2018	Daithí Ó Corráin (2018) The most momentous Irish electoral contest of the 20th century (RTÉ Brainstorm). Dublin: ELEA [Link]

Foreword

	Year	Publication
	2020	Daithí Ó Corráin (2020) Holy Pictures. Dublin: FOR
	2016	Daithí Ó Corráin (2016) The Ballykissane Tragedy: Good Friday 1916. Kerry: FOR

Documentary

	Year	Publication
	2019	Daithí Ó Corráin (2019) Rome V Republic (RTÉ Documentary). DOC

Other Publication

	Year	Publication
	2012	Daithí Ó Corráin (2012) Irish Literary Supplement 31:2.
	2011	Daithí Ó Corráin (2011) Irish Literary Supplement 30:2.
	2011	Daithí Ó Corráin (2011) Irish Literary Supplement 31:1.
	2010	Daithí Ó Corráin (2010) Irish Literary Supplement 30:1.
	2010	Daithí Ó Corráin (2010) Irish Literary Supplement 29:2.

Literary Review

	Year	Publication
	2021	Daithi O'Corrain (2021) The Irish Literary Supplement 41:1. Litr
	2021	Daithi O'Corrain (2021) The Irish Literary Supplement 40:2. Litr
	2020	Daithi O'Corrain (2020) The Irish Literary Supplement 39:2. Litr
	2020	Daithi O'Corrain (2020) The Irish Literary Supplement 40:1. Litr
	2019	Daithí Ó Corráin (2019) The Irish Literary Supplement 39:1. Litr
	2019	Daithí Ó Corráin (2019) The Irish Literary Supplement 38:2. Litr
	2018	Daithí Ó Corráin (2018) The Irish Literary Supplement 38:1. Litr
	2018	Daithí Ó Corráin (2018) The Irish Literary Supplement 37:2. New York: Litr
	2017	Daithí Ó Corráin (2017) The Irish Literary Supplement 36:2. Litr
	2017	Daithí Ó Corráin (2017) The Irish Literary Supplement 37:1. Litr
	2016	Daithí Ó Corráin (2016) The Irish Literary Supplement 36:1. Litr
	2016	Daithí Ó Corráin (2016) The Irish Literary Supplement 35:2. Litr
	2015	Daithí Ó Corráin (2015) Irish Literary Supplement 35:1. Litr
	2015	Daithí Ó Corráin (2015) Irish Literary Supplement 34:2. Litr
	2014	Daithí Ó Corráin (2014) Irish Literary Supplement 34:1. Litr
	2014	Daithí Ó Corráin (2014) Irish Literary Supplement 33:2. Litr
	2013	Daithí Ó Corráin (2013) Irish Literary Supplement 33:1. Litr
	2013	Daithí Ó Corráin (2013) Irish Literary Supplement 32:2. Litr
	2012	Daithí Ó Corráin (2012) Irish Literary Supplement 32:1. Litr

Professional Associations

	Association	Function	From / To
	Irish Historical Studies	Member	-
	Military History Society of Ireland	Member	-

Honors and Awards

	Date	Title	Awarding Body
	01/01/2015	SPD College Fellowship	SPD College Research Committee
	01/12/2020	British Catholic History Best Article Prize	Catholic Record Society

Committees

	Committee	Function	From / To
	RIA Historical Studies Committee		21/09/2018 - 01/09/2022
	RIA Disestablishment of Church of Ireland steering group		17/09/2018 -
	RIA-Oireachtas Dáil Éireann the first 100 years steering group		01/06/2018 -
	Studia Hibernica editorial board		-
	Boston College-Ireland		-
	Kerry Historical and Archaeological Society		01/02/2023 -
	Irish Literary Supplement Editorial Board		-

Employment

	Employer	Position	From / To
	Dublin City University		01/01/2008 -

Education

	Start date	Institution	Qualification	Subject
		Dublin Business School	Dip Project Management
		Trinity College Dublin	PhD
		UCC	H Dip Computer Science
		Trinity College Dublin	B.A. (Mod.) (First Class Honours)

Other Activities

	Description
	Peer reviewer for NUI Fellowship
	Peer reviewer for Cambridge UP, Manchester UP, Liverpool UP, Bloomsbury, Four Courts Press, UCD Press, Irish Historical Studies
	Historical adviser for Killorglin 1916 Centenary Programme

Outreach Activities

Year	Engagement Type	Organisation	Description
			'The state ought to shoulder its liability to the full', contribution to Dublin City Libraries Centenary Programme, Cabra Library 11 Feb. 2016
	Presentations/Talks to an external audience	Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society
	Presentations/Talks to an external audience	Éigse Sliabh Rua (Co. Kilkenny)	Invited lecture
	Presentations/Talks to an external audience	Waterford City Council	Invited lecture
			'Keeping the spirit alive: the Irish Volunteers 1913-16', paper to Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society, 1 Mar. 2016
			'Dublin in ruins', contribution to RTE Reflecting the Rising', Supreme Court Dublin 28 Mar. 2016
			Launched 'The Ballykissane Tragedy' by Tom Doyle, Killorglin, 24 Mar. 2016
			Delivered keynote at Killorglin Centenary Public Symposium, 26 Mar. 2016
			Organizer of '1916 in context: a public symposium', St Patrick's Campus DCU, 23 Jan. 2016
2022	Presentations/Talks to an external audience	Military History Society of Ireland	Invited lecture: 'Cathal Brugha: Reappraising a neglected founding father'

Media

Title	Year	Type	Authors
Who Do You Think You Are	2023	Documentary	Daithí Ó Corráin
The battle for Dublin's O'Connell Street 100 years ago this week (RTÉ Brainstorm)	2022	Newspaper article (online)	Daithí Ó Corráin
The Pat Kenny Show	2022	Radio Interviews	Daithí Ó Corráin
Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan	2022	Radio interview/panel discussion	Daithí Ó Corráin
Cathal Brugha: an 'extraordinary' life cut short by the Civil War (RTÉ Brainstorm)	2022	Newspaper article (online)	Daithí Ó Corráin
The Dead of the Irish Revolution	2022	Podcast	Daithí Ó Corráin
The strange, gruesome murder of a Galway priest 100 years ago (RTÉ Brainstorm)	2020	Newspaper article (online)	Daithí Ó Corráin
A carnival of terrorism': the story of the Belfast riots of 1920 (RTÉ Brainstorm)	2020	Newspaper article (online)	Daithí Ó Corráin
How 1920 was one of the bloodiest years in Irish history (RTÉ Brainstorm)	2020	Newspaper article (online)	Daithí Ó Corráin
The Long and the Short of It	2020	Documentary	Daithí Ó Corráin
The History Show (RTÉ Radio)	2019	Radio interview/panel discussion	RTÉ Radio
"Ireland's hidden survivors" (BBC Long Read)	2019	Newspaper article (online)
Rome V Republic (RTÉ Television)	2019	Documentary
Come out ye Black and Tans: who were the Black and Tans? (RTÉ Brainstorm)	2019	Newspaper article (online)	Daithí Ó Corráin
"The most momentous Irish electoral contest of the 20th century" (RTÉ Brainstorm)	2018	Newspaper article (online)	Daithí Ó Corráin
'A modern country:Ireland votes solidly to allow abortion’ (The Economist)	2018	Newspaper article (Print)
How the 1916 Rising cost €200m in compensation claims (RTÉ Brainstorm)	2018	Newspaper article (online)	Daithí Ó Corráin
How the first Dáil laid down Ireland's constitutional foundations (RTÉ Brainstorm)	2019	Newspaper article (online)	Daithí Ó Corráin
The Soloheadbeg Ambush	2016	Newspaper article (Print)	Daithí Ó Corráin
16 Letters RTE	2016	Television interview/panel discussion	Daithí Ó Corráin

Research Interests

My main research interests are 19th and 20th century Irish political, cultural, religious and missionary history. I have undertaken extensive research in the following areas: Irish political violence, the Irish Revolution, 1912-23, compensation during the Irish Revolution, the Irish Volunteers, North-South relations, the Northern Ireland Troubles, church-state relations, Irish Catholicism, and ecumenism. I welcome prospective graduate students in these fields.

My most recently completed book is a study of Cathal Brugha published in June 2022 to mark the centenary of his death.

Research Projects

	Title	Role	Description	Start date	End date
	Irish Missionary Enterprise in Nigeria, c. 1890-1975 (James Akpu)	DCU PI		01/09/2021	31/08/2022
	The politics of Ireland’s food supply, 1895 to 1923: through peace, war, revolution and partition (Noel CAROLAN)	DCU PI		01/09/2022	31/08/2024

Current Postgraduate Students

Student Name	Degree	Supervision
Carolan ,Noel	PhD	Supervisor
Hogan ,John	PhD	Supervisor
Loughman ,Michael	PhD	Supervisor
O'Brien ,Patrick	PhD	Supervisor

External Collaborators

	Type	Name	Company	Role
	External	Professor Marian Lyons	Maynooth University	Academic

Teaching Interests

I have acted as external examiner at Mary Immaculate College Limerick (MA programme), Dublin Business School and am currently examiner for history undergraduate programmes at St Mary's University College Belfast.

Modules Coordinated

Term	Title	Subject
2022	Political, Social and Cultural Change	HY232
2022	Research Methods for the Historian	HY510
2022	Ireland in the Twentieth Century	HY511
2022	Dissertation	HY508
2022	Dissertation	HY507
2022	Revolution & Civil War in Ireland, 1916-1923	HY330
2020	The World since 1945	HY106