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Member Profile: Fearghal McGarry

21 June 2019

Fearghal McGarry, modern Irish historian was admitted as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy on 24 May 2019.

Fearghal McGarry is professor of Modern Irish History at Queen’s University Belfast. He has become a distinctive and authoritative voice in the history of revolutionary and post-revolutionary Ireland, in books that have reached both an academic audience and a wider public. He is also an active exponent of public history, at a time when issues of commemoration and memorialisation are of central importance to our society.

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