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Professor Colin Barr

Professor University of Notre Dame

Colin Barr is professor of Modern Irish History at the University of Notre Dame, where he directs the Clingen Family Center for the Study of Modern Ireland. He holds a BA from Stonehill College and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and has held academic appointments in Ireland, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Barr has been a visiting fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author of several books on Irish history, most recently 'Ireland's Empire: The Roman Catholic Church in the English-speaking world' (2020). 

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