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.Chapter X Appointments 1795 to date Kalendarium, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth.
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)
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)
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