Ivar McGrath is a Professor in UCD School of History. His publications include Lansdowne FC: A History (Dublin, 2022), Ireland and Empire, 1692-1770 (London, 2012), The Making of the Eighteenth-Century Irish Constitution: Government, Parliament and the Revenue, 1692-1714 (Dublin, 2000), articles in The English Historical Review, Irish Historical Studies, Parliamentary History, Eighteenth-Century Ireland, the History of European Ideas, The Historical Journal and several edited collections and reference works, as well as co-edited works as follows: Converts and Conversion in Ireland, 1650-1850 (Dublin, 2005); Money, Power and Print: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in the British Isles (Newark, 2008); and People, Politics and Power: Essays on Irish History 1660-1850 in Honour of James I. McGuire (Dublin, 2009).
From 2022 to 2024 he was the co-PI on the 'Our Shared Built Military Heritage: The online mapping inventorying and recording of the Army Barracks of Ireland 1690-1921', which led to the (opens in a new window)Army Barracks of Ireland website and database.
He received my BA (1989) and MA (1992) from UCD and my PhD (1997) from the University of London. Outside of academia, he spent three years serving as a private soldier in the Irish army including six months with UNIFIL in 1984-5, and eighteenth months in the civil service in London in 1992-3.
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