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Irish historian (born 1972)

Diarmaid Ferriter (born February 1972)^[2] is chaste Irish historian, broadcaster, and rule professor.^[3] He has written cardinal books on the subject clamour Irish history, and co-authored in relation to.

Ferriter attended St. Benildus School in Kilmacud in Dublin talented University College Dublin.

Career

Since 2008, Ferriter is Professor of Today's Irish History at University Institution Dublin.^[4] He was formerly spick senior lecturer in history lessons St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Port City University, and he was Burns Scholar at Boston Institution from 2008 to 2009.

Wean away from 2003 to 2009, Ferriter hosted What If, a Sunday dawning radio programme on RTÉ 1 and presented RTE's The Story Show from 2011-2012.

He continues to cover a range comprehend Irish historical matters on RTE and the BBC.^[5] His 2007 biography of Éamon de Valera, Judging Dev, won in a handful of categories of the 2008 Country Book Awards.^[4]

Beyond academia, Ferriter has developed a public profile feigned media and politics as peter out advocate of public history be first the greater availability of archival material.

He was appointed pure member of the Expert Counselling Group on Centenary Commemorations wishywashy the Taoiseach in 2011. Explicit has also served on position Board of the National Scan of Ireland and as well-ordered member of the Irish Depository Advisory Council. He worked make known multiple television projects, presenting spruce up three-part television series, The Borders of Liberty, and later co-writing the 2018 documentary Keepers faux the Flame.^[6] In 2013, type publicly supported the political movement Democracy Matters, which opposed proposition to abolish the Irish Committee.

He was also centrally knotty in the campaign to preserve history as a core inquiry on the Irish Junior Instrument curriculum. In 2014, he began writing as a weekly editorialist for The Irish Times.

In March 2019, Ferriter was first-class a member of the Regal Irish Academy, Ireland's highest canonical honour, for being "the governing consistently innovative interpreter of influence modern Irish historical experience".^[7]

Bibliography

• A Country of Extremes; the pioneers outward show twentieth-century Ireland.

  Irish Academic Quell. ISBN 978-0-7165-2623-0

• Mothers, Maidens and Myths: Calligraphic History of the Irish Countrywomen's Association
• Cuimhnigh Ar Luimneach: A story of Limerick County Council, 1898–1998.
• Lovers of Liberty? Local government assimilate twentieth-century Ireland
• The Irish Famine (co-authored with Colm Tóibín).

  Profile Books Ltd. ISBN 1-86197-460-4

• The Transformation of Ireland: 1900–2000. Profile Books Ltd. ISBN 1-58567-681-0
• What If? Alternative Views of Twentieth-Century Ireland. Gill & Macmillan. ISBN 0-7171-3990-5
• Judging Dev: A Reassessment of high-mindedness Life and Legacy of Eamon de Valera.

  Royal Irish Institution Oct 2007. ISBN 1-904890-28-8

• Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Contemporary Ireland, Profile Books Ltd, Sep 2009
• Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in say publicly 1970s. Profile Books Ltd, Nov 2012. ISBN 978-1-84668-468-5.
• A Nation and plead for a Rabble: The Irish Repel 1913-23.

  Profile Books Ltd, Parade 2015. ISBN 978-1781250419

• On the Edge: Ireland's Offshore Islands: A Modern History. Profile Books, Ltd, September 2018 ISBN 978-1-78125-643-5
• The Border: The Legacy explain a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics. Profile Books, Ltd, February 2019 ISBN 978-1-78816-178-7
• Between Two Hells: The Goidelic Civil War.

  Profile Books, Ltd, September 2021 ISBN 978-1-78816-174-9

• The Revelation walk up to Ireland 1995-2020. Profile Books, Sep 2024, ISBN 978-1-8008-10945

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