Terence Dooley

Professor Terence Dooley is the Director of the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates at Maynooth University. He specialises in Irish social and political history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly the history of Irish country houses and the landed class; land and politics in independent Ireland; the working of the Irish Land Commission from 1881 to 1992; the revolutionary period 1916-23; and local history in Ireland.