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About Diarmuid Whelan
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- Diarmuid Whelan (11 August 1971 – 1 June 2010) was an Irish academic in the history department of UCC.
- Born in Cork, he studied at Christian Brothers College, Cork and UCC.
- He wrote his doctoral thesis on Conor Cruise O'Brien.Besides his academic work, he had also been a sculptor and a transatlantic sailor.
- He worked in the National Library of Ireland archiving the papers of Owen Sheehy-Skeffington where he discovered a manuscript of Peter Tyrrell which he edited and had published as Founded on Fear:Letterfrack, War and Exile.
- He revealed that the Ryan Commission report had used the pseudonym 'Noah Kitterick' to refer to Peter Tyrrell.He wrote Conor Cruise O'Brien: The Coldest Eye, a biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien. His research interests were in Intellectual History, Irish political history, US Foreign policy, Decolonisation, Terrorism and International relations.
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