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Vincent Comerford

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Richard Vincent Comerford, known generally as Vincent Comerford, is a professor of Irish history at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth who retired in January 2010. Comerford graduated from St. Patrick's College, (NUI) Maynooth, BA(1965) and MA (1971), followed by a PhD from Trinity College Dublin in 1977. He was appointed Professor of Modern History at Maynooth in 1989.[1]

He is on the consultative committee of the Irish Historical Society,[2] a board member of the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS).[3] and principal investigator at the Associational Culture in Ireland Database.[4]

Bibliography

  • Charles J. Kickham: A Study in Irish Nationalism and Literature (Dublin: Wolfhound 1979)
  • The Fenians in context: Irish politics and society 1848–82 (Dublin, 1985)
  • The National Question (2000)
  • Ireland Inventing the Nation Bloomsbury Academic (2003) Arnold, London (2003) ISBN 978-0-340-73112-3[5]

Co-authored books

  • Irishness in a Changing Society Monaco; The Princess Grace Irish Library (1989), chapter 1 - R.V. Comerford, Political Myths In Modern Ireland.
  • Religion, Conflict and Coexistence in Ireland by R.V. Comerford, Mary Cullen, Jacqueline Hill, and Colm Lennon (1990)

Dedicated book

  • Ireland's Polemical Past; Views of Irish History in honour of RV Comerford ed. T. Dooley; University College Dublin Press (2010)

References

  1. [1]
    Chapter X Appointments 1795 to date Kalendarium, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth.
  2. [2]
    Archived 2010-04-19 at the Wayback Machine
  3. [3]
    "IRCHSS website 2010". Irchss.ie. Archived from the original on 7 July 2010. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  4. [4]
    "IRISH ASSOCIATIONS PROJECT website, 2010". Irishassociations.ie. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  5. [5]
    "Scoop Review of Books » Inventing Ireland: An Interview with Vincent Comerford". Books.scoop.co.nz. Retrieved 10 December 2017.


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