Professor Sean Connolly FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2016
- Subjects
- History
- Sections
- Early Modern History to 1850
Summary
Sean Connolly was born in Dublin, and studied at University College, Dublin, and what was then the New University of Ulster. He held posts at the Public Record Office of Ireland (now National Archives of Ireland), St Patrick’s College, Dublin, and the New University of Ulster, before becoming Professor of Irish History at Queen’s University, Belfast, in 1996. He has held Fellowships at the Folger Library, Washington DC, and the European University Institute, Florence, and twice served as editor of the journal Irish Economic and Social History.
Current post
Professor of Irish History (emeritus), Queen’s University, Belfast
Publications
Belfast 400: People, Place and History
Edited by S.J. Connolly - Published in 2012 by Liverpool University Press
The Oxford Companion to Irish History
Edited by S.J. Connolly - Published in 1998 by Oxford University Press
Religion, Law and Power: The Making of Protestant Ireland 1660-1760
S.J. Connolly - Published in 1991 by https://global.oup.com/academic/product/religion-law-and-power-9780198205876
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Simon Schaffer FBA
Social & intellectual history of experimental philosophy & exact sciences between the seventeenth & nineteenth centuries; historiography & sociology of scientific knowledge; the sciences & European imperialism
Professor Deborah Howard FBA
The art and architecture of Venice and the Veneto; Renaissance architectural history and theory; the relationship between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean; and music and architecture in the Renaissance
