Daithí Ó Corráin

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Contact Details

Office : M43, Department of History, St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, Ireland.

E-mail : Daithi.OCorrain@spd.dcu.ie

Phone: +353 1 884 2117

Fax: +353 1 8376197

Daithí Ó Corráin’s main research interests are 19th and 20th century Irish political, cultural and ecclesiastical history, as well as aspects of military history, legal history and historical geography.  He has undertaken extensive research in the following areas: Irish political violence, the War of Independence and Civil War, North-South relations, the Northern Ireland Troubles, church-state relations, Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s, and ecumenism. He is currently completing The Dead of the Irish Revolution 1916-1921 with Eunan O’Halpin which will be published by Yale University Press.

Recent Publications:

• ‘Articles 41 and 44: Religious Minority Opinion 1937-1980’, in Eoin Carolan and Oran Doyle (eds), The Irish Constitution: Governance and Values (Thomson Round Hall: Dublin, 2008).

•  ‘“If a house be divided against itself that house cannot stand”: The Church of Ireland and the political border’, in Mervyn Busteed, Jonathan Tonge and Frank Neal (eds), Irish Protestant Identities (Manchester University Press: Manchester, 2008).

• Rendering to God and Caesar: The Irish Churches and the Two States in Ireland, 1949-73 (Manchester University Press: Manchester, 2006).

• ‘“Ireland in his heart north and south”: The contribution of Ernest Blythe to the partition question’, Irish Historical Studies 34: 137 (May 2006).

• ‘“We shall find a way through”: The Church of Ireland, state prayers and liturgical realities’, in Toby Barnard and William Neely (eds), The Clergy of the Church of Ireland, 1000-2000: Messengers, Watchmen and Stewards (Four Courts Press: Dublin, 2006).

• ‘The quiet leader: The episcopacy of John Cardinal D’Alton, 1946-63’, Seanchas Ard Mhaca 21: 1 (2006).

• ‘Semper fidelis: The episcopacy of Eugene O’Callaghan, 1943-1969’, in Henry A. Jefferies (ed.), History of the Diocese of Clogher (Four Courts Press: Dublin, 2005).