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.
He is on the consultative committee of the Irish Historical Society, a board member of the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS). and principal investigator at the Associational Culture in Ireland Database.
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
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
- Chapter X Appointments 1795 to date Kalendarium, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth.
- Archived 2010-04-19 at the Wayback Machine
- "IRCHSS website 2010". Irchss.ie. Archived from the original on 7 July 2010. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
- "IRISH ASSOCIATIONS PROJECT website, 2010". Irishassociations.ie. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
- "Scoop Review of Books » Inventing Ireland: An Interview with Vincent Comerford". Books.scoop.co.nz. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
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