Accomplished Contemporary Historian with published interests in British, Irish and Philippines political and church affairs.
Former Visiting Professor of Comparative Politics at Catholic University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines.
Author of Gaelic Nations (1997) and Forty Shades of Blue: Factionalism in the post 1945 British Tory Party (2017).
Gaelic Neighbours: Scotland and Northern Ireland 1918-2020, Comparative Language and Cultural Politics.
Working on a biography of the late Irish Primate, Cardinal Tomas O'Fiaich, RC Archbishop of Armagh 1977-1990.