Diarmuid Whelan (11 August 1971 – 1 June 2010) was an Irish academic in the history department of

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.Diarmuid Whelan
College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences History Staff, UCC, retrieved 21 July 2009 Born in Cork, he studied at

Christian Brothers College, Cork Christian Brothers College, Cork (CBC Cork, colloquially known as Christians) is a fee-paying school under the trusteeship of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust in Cork, Ireland. Their sister school in Dublin is CBC Monkstown. History In the mid ...

and UCC. He wrote his doctoral thesis on

Conor Cruise O'Brien Donal Conor David Dermot Donat Cruise O'Brien (3 November 1917 – 18 December 2008), often nicknamed "The Cruiser", was an Irish diplomat, politician, writer, historian and academic, who served as Minister for Posts and Telegraphs from 1973 ...

. Besides his academic work, he had also been a sculptor and a transatlantic sailor. He worked in the National Library of Ireland archiving the papers of

Owen Sheehy-Skeffington Owen Lancelot Sheehy-Skeffington (19 May 1909 – 7 June 1970) was an Irish university lecturer and senator. The son of pacifists, feminists and socialists Francis and Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, he was politically likeminded and as a member of t ...

where he discovered a manuscript of

Peter Tyrrell Peter Tyrrell (1916 – 26 April 1967) was an Irish author and former inmate of St Joseph's Industrial School, Letterfrack, an institution run by the Christian Brothers.

which he edited and had published as ''Founded on Fear: Letterfrack, War and Exile''. He revealed that the Ryan Commission report had used the pseudonym 'Noah Kitterick' to refer to Peter Tyrrell.Brave Testimony Unjustly Censored
Diarmuid Whelan,

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, 23 May 2009, retrieved 21 July 2009 He wrote ''Conor Cruise O'Brien: The Coldest Eye'', a biography of

. His research interests were in Intellectual History, Irish political history, US Foreign policy, Decolonisation, Terrorism and International relations.

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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Whelan, Diarmuid 21st-century Irish historians Academics of University College Cork 2010 deaths 1972 births