Conor meets historian and commentator Diarmaid Ferriter; Irish historian, broadcaster and university professor. He has written eleven books on the subject of Irish history, and co-authored another. Ferriter attended St. Benildus College in Kilmacud in Dublin and University College Dublin.
Ferriter is Professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin. He was formerly a senior lecturer in history at St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin City University, and he was Burns Scholar at Boston College from 2008 to 2009. From 2003 to 2009, Ferriter hosted What If, a Sunday morning radio programme on RTÉ 1. His 2007 biography of Éamon de Valera, Judging Dev, won in three categories of the 2008 Irish Book Awards. Ferriter has developed a public profile in media and politics: He worked on multiple television projects, presenting a three-part television series, The Limits of Liberty, and later co-writing the 2018 documentary Keepers of the Flame. In 2013, he publicly supported the political campaign Democracy Matters, which opposed proposals to abolish the Irish Senate. In 2014, he began writing as a weekly columnist for The Irish Times
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