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Richard McElligott

Dr Richard McElligott is a native of Stacks Mountain, Kilflynn in North Kerry and is lecturer in Modern and Irish History in the Department of Business and Humanities, Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT). Prior to his appointment at DkIT, Richard was a senior historical researcher with the Irish Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation from 2015-2019. Richard received his PhD from University College Dublin in 2012 and since then has taught and published widely on the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland, the Irish Revolutionary era, Irish cultural nationalism and Irish sport. He is the author of Forging a Kingdom: The GAA in Kerry, 1884-1934 and co-editor of A Social and Cultural History of Sport in Ireland. His research has been published in several edited collections and national and international journals including Eire-Ireland, Irish Studies Review, and Irish Economic and Social History. Richard is a regular contributor to television, radio and the national press, a former curator of RTÉ’s National Treasures and the 2017 winner of the McNamee Award for journalism.

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