Diarmuid Whelan
Dr. Diarmuid Whelan (11 August 1971 – 1 June 2010)[1][2] was an Irish academic in the history department of UCC.[3] Born in Cork, he studied at Christian Brothers College, Cork[3] and UCC.[3] He wrote his doctoral thesis on Conor Cruise O'Brien.[3]
Besides his academic work, he had also been a sculptor and a transatlantic sailor.[3] He worked in the National Library of Ireland archiving the papers of Owen Sheehy-Skeffington where he discovered a manuscript of Peter Tyrrell which he edited and had published as Founded on Fear:Letterfrack, War and Exile.[3] He revealed that the Ryan Commission report had used the pseudonym 'Noah Kitterick' to refer to Peter Tyrrell.[4]
He wrote Conor Cruise O'Brien: The Coldest Eye, a biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien.
His research interests were in Intellectual History, Irish political history, US Foreign policy, Decolonisation, Terrorism and International relations.[3]
Books
- Founded on Fear, Letterfrack, War and Exile, (Ed.), Irish Academic Press, reprinted by Transworld
- Gerald Goldberg: A tribute, Diarmuid Whelan (Ed.), Dermot Keogh (Ed.), June 2008, Mercier
- Conor Cruise O'Brien: The Coldest Eye, May 2009, Irish Academic Press
References
- ^ http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/obituaries/2010/0612/1224272355315.html
- ^ http://notices.irishtimes.com/4093288
- ^ a b c d e f g Diarmuid Whelan, College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences History Staff, UCC, retrieved 21 July 2009
- ^ Brave Testimony Unjustly Censored, Diarmuid Whelan, Irish Examiner, 23 May 2009, retrieved 21 July 2009