Thomas Bartlett (historian)


Thomas Bartlett MRIA is an Irish historian and author.

Biography

Bartlett was born in Belfast and attended St. Mary's Christian Brothers' Grammar School. He read history at Queen's University Belfast, taking a BA in 1970 and his doctorate in 1976 on Townshend's viceroyalty in 1767-72.
He was appointed Lecturer in Irish History at National University of Ireland, Galway. In 1995 he was appointed Professor of History at University College Dublin and subsequently moved to the Chair in Irish History at the University of Aberdeen.
He was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1995 and has held several visiting professorships in the US and Britain.
In 1999 he was appointed the first Naughton Fellow in Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
He is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of Aberdeen.

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