Richard Vincent Comerford M.A. Ph.D. (Dublin)

Professor and Head of Department

Contact Details

Rhetoric 53a
vincent.comerford@nuim.ie

 

Research

• Main area of interest is political mobilisation and its social and cultural bases, in modern Ireland in the first instance, but also in other places, particularly the Netherlands.
• Current concerns include: confessionalism; the politics of culture and ethnicity; democracy; trans-national history; and historiography.

Publications

• Ireland (London and New York, 2003) (Inventing the Nation)
• 'Republicans and democracy in modern Irish politics' in Fearghal McGarry (ed.), Republicanism in modern Ireland (Dublin, 2003), pp 8-22
  
• Introduction and primary narrative for 1870-91 in Ireland under the Union II, 1870-1921, (Oxford, 1996), edited by W.E. Vaughan, pp 1-80, (A New History of Ireland, vi)
  
• Primary narrative for 1850-70 in Ireland under the Union I, 1800-1870, (Oxford, 1989) edited by W.E. Vaughan, pp 372-450, (A New History of Ireland, v)
  
• The fenians in context: Irish politics and society, 1848-82, (Dublin, 1985; 2nd edition, 1998)
  
• Charles J. Kickham (1828-82): a study in Irish nationalism and literature, (Dublin, 1979)

 

 

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