Conor Mulvagh is Associate Professor in Modern Irish History at the School of History, University College Dublin His research centres primarily on British and Irish political history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries including political thought, the Irish revolution and Ireland in the First World War. He also works on transnational British imperial history including the history of encounter between Irish and Indian radicals. His current research focusses on a comparative study of partitions. He was the lead academic on UCD’s Decade of Centenaries, 2013-23 and works extensively in both public history and commemorations. He is director of UCD’s MA Public History.
He lectures on nineteenth and twentieth century Irish history including home rule, memory and commemoration; Irish political thought, the Irish revolution; and Northern Ireland and previously ran UCD’s BA Humanities History and Politics degree pathway.
He is the author of Irish Days, Indian Memories: V.V. Giri and Indian Law Students at University College Dublin, 1913-1916 (Irish Academic Press, 2016) and The Irish Parliamentary Party at Westminster, 1900-18 (Manchester University Press, 2016) which was awarded the 2017 NUI Special Commendation Prize in Irish History. Most recently, he has co-edited, with Dr Emer Purcell, a biography of the founder and first chief of staff of the paramilitary Irish Volunteers entitled Eoin MacNeill: the pen and the sword (Cork University Press, 2022).