Richard Vincent Comerford, known generally as Vincent Comerford, is a professor of

Irish history The first evidence of human presence in Ireland dates to around 34,000 years ago, with further findings dating the presence of ''Homo sapiens'' to around 10,500 to 7,000 BC. The receding of the ice after the Younger Dryas cold phase of the Qua ...

at the

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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 Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

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)

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;

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Press (2010)

References

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