Professor Daire Keogh
Prof Daire Keogh, President of DCU, Ireland, with musician Moya Brennan at an official DCU event in 2022
BornJuly 1964 (age 59)[1]
Ireland
NationalityIrish
SpouseKatie Keogh
Children4
Academic background
EducationSynge Street CBS
Alma materUniversity College Dublin
Academic work
DisciplineHistorian
InstitutionsSt Patrick's College (Drumcondra)
Dublin City University

Daire Kilian Keogh[2] (born July 1964[1]) is an academic historian and third-level educational leader, president of Dublin City University (DCU) since July 2020.

Keogh graduated in history, later taking a PhD while working part-time as a school teacher. He was a lecturer at a number of Irish third-level institutions, and then professor at, and later president (2012–2016) of, Ireland's main teacher training college, St Patrick's, Drumcondra. He has written or edited more than a dozen books in the fields of Irish revolutionary and religious history. After St Patrick's merged fully into DCU he was appointed as the university's deputy president, and after a long search process in 2018 and 2019, he was selected to become DCU's fourth president as of July 14, 2020, for a term of 10 years.[3]

Early life and education

Daire (sometimes written Dáire) Keogh was born to Peter and Cora Keogh of Rathfarnham,[4] and has four brothers and a sister. His father owned and ran Peter's Pub between South William Street and St Stephen's Green in central Dublin.[5] He attended Loreto Abbey National School, then Synge Street CBS.[4] He studied history, economics and philosophy at University College Dublin (UCD, within the National University of Ireland), securing a Bachelor of Arts in history.[6] He then studied for the priesthood at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and while he did not pursue ordination,[4] received a qualification (BPh) there.[6]

Academic career

On his return to Ireland he started work as a teacher at St Mac Dara's Community College in Templeogue[4] and successfully pursued a PhD in history at Trinity College Dublin. He graduated in 1993, with a thesis entitled The Catholic Church and Radicalism in Ireland in the 1790s.[7] He lectured and performed research at a range of Irish third-level institutions, including UCD, Trinity College, one or both of the universities in Maynooth, UCG, St Patrick's College, Drumcondra and the Oscail remote education centre hosted by DCU.[4] He also held a post for a time as adjunct professor at the University of Notre Dame, near South Bend in Indiana, one of the leading Catholic universities in North America[8] Keogh also took a master's degree in Theology at the University of Glasgow.[6][8]

Keogh lectured in Early Modern European and Irish history from at least 2001[9] in the Department of History within the Faculty of Humanities at St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, previously an autonomous institution but by then a college of DCU. By 2011, he was a Senior Lecturer.[10] He also served as Head of Quality Assurance.[11] He then held a named chair, as Cregan Professor of Modern Irish History.[12] He has also held the post of Fellow at the University Design Institute at Arizona State University.[8]

He was President of St Patrick's from 2012[13] to 2016, overseeing a broadening of its curriculum and the construction of a new library building.[6] He also became a director of the college's fundraising foundation.[14] St Patrick's fully merged into Dublin City University – forming the base for an Institute of Education, also incorporating other colleges, and a partial base for a Faculty of Humanities. This process Keogh led for St Patrick's. He was appointed as Deputy President of DCU, and his responsibilities included the non-academic aspects of student life, such as welfare, sporting and social activities, as well as interaction with DCU's alumni, and the university's strategic planning process.[15][8] He also played a key role in agreeing the move of the 140,000-volume library of the Jesuit order in Ireland to the branch of DCU's library at the All Hallows campus.[16] Keogh was selected in 2019 for the Staff Leadership Award, presented at the annual dinner of DCU's Leadership Circle of major donors.[17]

Areas of study

Keogh's research and publications work addresses aspects of Irish history including politics, education, religion and gender.[15] Specifically he has specialised in aspects of the history of the Catholic Church in Ireland and revolutionary politics in the 18th century.[9] He has won funding from the State-sponsored Irish Research Council and its predecessor the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS), on at least two occasions: in 2007 he secured a Senior Research Fellowship for work on the history of the Irish Christian Brothers[2] and from 2008, project grant funding for work to edit and publish the correspondence of Cardinal Paul Cullen, for which he remains, as of 2020, principal investigator.[6][2] Keogh also chairs the editorial committee of DCU's journal of Irish Studies, Studia Hibernica, which covers the fields of history, folklore, toponymy and the Irish language.[3][18]

Voluntary posts

He has served as vice-president of a national trade union, the Irish Federation of University Teachers,[3] and was nominated by that body as a member of an EU third-level education quality assurance body, the European Quality Assurance Register (EQAR),[3] and the governing body of Ireland's National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, which oversees the primary school curriculum.[8][19]

Keogh became a member of the Policy and Standards Committee of Quality and Qualifications Ireland, the state body responsible for overseeing the Irish third-level qualifications framework and quality assurance structures, in April 2017,[20] and resigned with effect from July 2020, after his appointment as DCU president.[21][22] Keogh also chairs the Higher Education and Research Committee of the British Irish Chamber of Commerce,[23] and has written an article in a national newspaper setting out some committee positions and concerns around Brexit.[24]

As of 2020 he is, in a private capacity, a member of the governing body of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust, which manages more than 90 Catholic schools, and where he served for some time along with DCU's founding president, Danny O'Hare.[25] He has also been a member of the boards of both national schools in Drumcondra and Rathfarnham and the secondary school Clongowes Wood College.[8]

Keogh has also appeared on radio programmes, including speaking about the legacy of Cardinal Cullen on RTÉ Radio 1.[26] He has also spoken on the topic of capturing oral accounts of the COVID-19 pandemic.[27]

Keogh has qualified as a Chartered Director at the Institute of Directors.[8] He was a director, from 2013 to 2017, of the think tank, the Centre for Cross-Border Studies,[1] and has been a director of Women for Election which aims to boost the supply and confidence of women electoral candidates, since 2014.[28]

DCU presidency

Keogh was selected in December 2019, after an 18-month international search process,[29][6] and appointed by the Governing Authority for a term of ten years.[8]

Publications

Keogh has authored or edited, individually or jointly, at least 16 books[30] on aspects of history, and various papers, as well as contributing multiple articles to the Dictionary of Irish Biography.[31]

Books:

Articles:

Personal life

In November 2000 Keogh married Katherine (Katie) Schott, from Indianapolis, Indiana, at the on-campus basilica of the University of Notre Dame.[47] His wife, a graduate of Notre Dame (Lewis Hall, 1998),[48] later a project manager and communications specialist,[8] had moved to Ireland as associate director of the Dublin branch operation of the university in 1998. She also worked for the award-winning Childhood Development Initiative in Tallaght,[49] and both the US Embassy and the American Chamber in Ireland.[50] Mrs Keogh also served as lead for the DCU Alumni Emerging Leaders Programme.[48] The Keoghs have four children.[50] The family lived in the Dublin suburb of Rathfarnham, where they support, and held officer positions with, the Rathfarnham Concert Band Society.[51] Keogh co-edited a book on Rathfarnham's links with Irish revolutionary activity.[44]

References

  1. ^ a b c Daire Keogh, Companies House of the UK Director, Centre for Cross-Border Studies (NI036854) – Accessed 17 July 2020
  2. ^ a b c "Awardee search (for Keogh, filtered)". Irish Research Council. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d "New President of Dublin City University: Professor Daire Keogh". EducationMatters.ie. 15 July 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d e Keogh, Daire (3 May 2019). "In conversation with..." Anchor FM (radio / podcast interview). Interviewed by Colm McDonnell; Gavin Kelly; Greg Mulhall. Dublin. Retrieved 18 July 2020. ...Rathfarnham, house had only countryside beyond ... Loreto Rathfarnham, took boys then ... Synge Street ... (colleges)
  5. ^ "The death has occurred of Peter KEOGH". FuneralTimes.com. 12 August 2017. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  6. ^ a b c d e f O'Brien, Carl (6 December 2019). "Dublin City University announces new president". Irish Times. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  7. ^ Keogh, Dáire (1993). The Catholic Church and Radicalism in Ireland in the 1790s (1st ed.). Dublin, Ireland: Trinity College Dublin. pp. 1–362. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Professor Dáire Keogh confirmed as Dublin City University President-designate". Dublin City University. Retrieved 16 July 2020.[permanent dead link]
  9. ^ a b "History (Department of)". St Patrick's College, Drumcondra. Archived from the original on 2 December 2005. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  10. ^ "Dr. Dáire Keogh". St Patrick's College, Drumcondra. Archived from the original on 28 May 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  11. ^ a b "Dr. Dáire Keogh". St Patrick's College, Drumcondra. Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland. Archived from the original on 28 May 2011. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  12. ^ "Member of Governance: Professor Daire Keogh". Dublin City University. 12 September 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  13. ^ Martin, Diarmuid (28 September 2012). "Inauguration of President of St. Patrick's College". Archdiocese of Dublin (Roman Catholic). Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  14. ^ "St Patrick's College Foundation". companycheck.co.uk. Companies House (UK). Retrieved 24 August 2020. Name DAIRE KEOGH, Role Director, Birth Jul 1964, Appointed 24 Sep 2012
  15. ^ a b "About the Deputy President". Dublin City University. 21 September 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  16. ^ "Milltown Park Library moves to DCU". Jesuits in Ireland. 3 October 2019. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  17. ^ "Vodafone, Michael Dwyer and Daire Keogh recipients of DCU Leadership Awards". Dublin City University. 14 October 2019. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  18. ^ "Editorial Committee". Studia Hibernica. Dublin City University. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  19. ^ "Annual Report 2013-2014" (PDF). IFUT. Irish Federation of University Teachers. Retrieved 17 July 2020. ...IFUT is represented on the NCCA by Dr Rose Malone, President and Dr Daire Keogh, SPD.
  20. ^ "Policy and Standards Committee, 28 April 2017" (PDF). QQI. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  21. ^ "24th meeting (incorporeal) of the Policy and Standards Committee" (PDF). QQI. Retrieved 4 August 2020. Daire Keogh, National Expert
  22. ^ "Note of the 47th meeting of the authority (the Board)" (PDF). Quality and Qualifications Ireland. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  23. ^ "Higher Education and Research Committee". British Irish Chamber of Commerce. Archived from the original on 7 December 2020. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  24. ^ Keogh, Daire (6 March 2019). "Brexit can't be allowed ruin collaborations in higher education between us and UK". Irish Independent. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  25. ^ Walshe, John (2014). An Education: How an outsider became an insider – and learned what really goes on in Irish government (1st ed.). Dublin, Ireland: Penguin Ireland. p. 99. ISBN 9781844883608.
  26. ^ "The History Show". RTE. 16 October 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  27. ^ "The Irish COVID-19 Oral History Project: Using digital technologies to capture and preserve Irish lived experiences". The Irish Institute of Digital Business. Retrieved 29 August 2020. dotLAB Radio, dotLAB Radio presenter, Patrick Haughey (CEO, Audiobrand), is joined by Prof. Daire Keogh, Professor of History and President of DCU, and Caitriona Ni Cassaithe, Assistant Professor
  28. ^ "Women for Election". companycheck.co.uk. Companies House / CRO. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  29. ^ Short, Eva (9 December 2019). "Dáire Keogh confirmed as next DCU president". Silicon Republic. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  30. ^ "Prof Daire Keogh". Irish United States Alumni Association. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  31. ^ "TCD (Copyright Library) searches for books, articles – Daire Keogh". Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  32. ^ Power, Thomas P. (1997). "Reviewed Works: The United Irishmen: Republicanism, Radicalism And Rebellion by David Dickson, Daire Keogh, Kevin Whelan; The People's Rising: Wexford 1798 by Daniel Gahan". Saothar. Dublin, Ireland: Irish Labour History Society. 22: 97–100.
  33. ^ "The People's Rising: Wexford 1798 Daniel Gahan (Gill and Macmillan, £12.99) The Mighty Wave: the 1798 Rebellion in Wexford Dáire Keogh and Nicholas Furlong (eds.) (Four Courts, £9.99) Sir Richard Musgrave's Memoirs of the Irish Rebellion of 179". History Ireland. Dublin, Ireland: Wordwell. 4 (4). 1996.
  34. ^ Review by Luddy, Maria in Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Iris an Dá Chultúr, vol. 13, 1998, pp. 199–20
  35. ^ Rebellion: a television history of 1798. OCLC 39875363. Retrieved 7 August 2020 – via Worldcat.
  36. ^ A patriot priest : the life of Father James Coigly, 1761–1798. OCLC 845135869. Retrieved 7 August 2020 – via Worldcat.
  37. ^ McCafferty, John (May 2000). "Review: History of the Catholic diocese of Dublin. Edited by James Kelly and Dáire Keogh. Pp x, 390, illus. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2000. IR£30. – History of the diocese of Derry from earliest times. Edited by Henry A. Jefferies and Ciarán Devlin. Pp 304. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2000. IR£19.95". Irish Historical Studies. Cambridge University Press. 32 (125): 129–130. doi:10.1017/S0021121400014693.
  38. ^ Connolly, S.J. (2002). "Review: Acts of Union: The Causes, Contexts and Consequences of the Act of Union (Keogh and Whelan)". Irish Literary Supplement. 21 (1): 22–23.
  39. ^ Rafferty, Oliver P. (January 2004). "Christianity in Ireland. Revisiting the story . Edited by Brendan Bradshaw and Dáire Keogh. Dublin: Columba Press, 2002. €30 (£19.99). 1 85607 350 5". The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. 55 (1): 119–121. doi:10.1017/S0022046903237192. S2CID 162717123.
  40. ^ McCluskey, Raymond (May 2011). "Review: The Irish College, Rome and its world (ed. Dáire Keogh and Albert McDonnell. Four Courts Press: Dublin, 2008. xi+296 pp.)". The Innes Review. 62 (1): 120–123. doi:10.3366/inr.2011.0013.
  41. ^ Langan, Michael D (2009). "Reviewed Work: Edmund Rice and the First Christian Brothers by Dáire Keogh". Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. 98 (389): 100–103.
  42. ^ Roddy, Sarah (4 February 2015). "Review: Cardinal Paul Cullen and his World. Edited by Dáire Keogh and Albert McDonnell. Pp 470, illus. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011.)". Irish Historical Studies. 38 (149): 157–158. doi:10.1017/S0021121400000870. S2CID 164555956. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  43. ^ Hay, Marnie; Keogh, Dáire (2016). Rebellion & revolution in Dublin : voices from a suburb, Rathfarnham (1st ed.). Tallaght, Dublin: South Dublin County Libraries. ISBN 9780957511590. OCLC 973816960. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  44. ^ a b "Review: Rebellion and Revolution in Dublin by Marnie Hay and Daire Keogh". Irish Times. 8 April 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  45. ^ Walsh, Brendan (2016). Essays in the History of Irish Education (1st ed.). London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 83–104. ISBN 978-1-137-51481-3.
  46. ^ "Keogh, Dáire (contributor)| Dictionary of Irish Biography". www.dib.ie. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  47. ^ "On the cover: Schott-Keogh and Keogh". South Bend Tribune. South Bend, IN. 27 May 2001. p. 2.
  48. ^ a b "The DCU Alumni Emerging Leaders Programme | Steering Committee 2020/21". Dublin City University Alumni. 29 March 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  49. ^ Kelly, Olivia (21 January 2006). "Top Living Dublin award for docklands authority". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 21 November 2023. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  50. ^ a b Keogh, Katie (1 July 2016). "There is a deep connection between our two great nations". Irish Times. Archived from the original on 21 November 2023. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  51. ^ "About RCBS". Rathfarnham Concert Band. Archived from the original on 17 June 2022. Retrieved 17 June 2022. Chairperson: Daire Keogh ... Treasurer: Katie Keogh

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