Charles Ivar McGrath

I am Professor in the School of History, UCD. My 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). I received my BA (1989) and MA (1992) from UCD and my PhD (1997) from the University of London. Outside of academia, I 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.