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 Brian Cummings FBA
Renaissance humanism and European literature 1450-1700; the history of religion in relation to the history of the book; literary theory and the history of philosophy
Professor Lorraine Daston FBA
History of science, 16th-19th centuries.: probability and statistics; scientific observation; objectivity; formal theories of rationality
Professor Mark Knights FBA
British and Imperial History 1600-1850; the history of corruption, from early modern to the present; the history of political discourse; print culture; satire and laughter; representation (political, textual and visual).
