Patrick O'Flanagan (born 1947 in

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

) is an Irish

geographer A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" a ...

and academic.

Career

He is

emeritus ''Emeritus'' (; female: ''emerita'') is an adjective used to designate a retired chair, professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, rabbi, emperor, or other person who has been "permitted to retain as an honorary title ...

professor of th
Department of Geography
at

University College Cork University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, and located in Cork. The university was founded in 1845 as one of ...

, Ireland. He was the former Head of this department. At present, he contributes regularly to th
Socio-Territorial Research Group
at the

University of Santiago de Compostela , established = , type = Public , budget = €228 million (2011) , rector = Prof. Dr. Antonio López Díaz , city = Santiago de Compostela , state = Galicia , country = Spain , undergrad = 23,835 , postgrad = 1,716 , doctoral = 2,697 ...

( Galicia). His research is mainly focused on

Atlantic Europe Atlantic Europe is a geographical term for the western portion of Europe which borders the Atlantic Ocean. The term may refer to the idea of Atlantic Europe as a cultural unit and/or as a biogeographical region. It comprises the Atlantic Isles ...

- with a particular interest in Galicia Ferrás Sexto, C. (2001): "Reflexión acerca del significado de la obra del profesor O'Flanagan para la Geografía de Galicia", in ''Xeográfica'' no. 1, pp. 199–203, Compostela. and Atlantic

Iberia The Iberian Peninsula (), ** * Aragonese and Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica'' ** ** * french: Péninsule Ibérique * mwl, Península Eibérica * eu, Iberiar penintsula also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in southwestern Europe, defi ...

- from the perspective of cultural and historical Geography. O'Flanagan helped to define and standardise the actual concept of

. Other research deals with comparative evolution of port cities, rural change, housing and settlement studies.

Partial bibliography

*''The Living Landscape, Kilgalligan, Erris, County Mayo'', (with S. O Cathain), Dublin, 1974. *''Rural Ireland, 1600-1900: Modernization and Change'', (with P. Ferguson and K. Whelan), Cork, 1987. *''Bandon, Irish Historic Towns Atlas'', No.3, Dublin, 1988. *''Cork, History and Society'', (with N. Buttimer), Cork, 1993. *''Xeografía Histórica de Galicia'', Xerais, Vigo, 1996. *"Galicia en el marco geográfico y histórico de la Europa Atlántica", in ''Xeográfica'' I, pp. 115–133, Santiago de Compostela, 2001. *''Port cities of Atlantic Iberia, c. 1500-1900'', Aldershot, 2008.

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"Profile of Professor Patrick O'Flanagan at UCC"

Career

Partial bibliography

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