Rate My Professor Colin Barr

Barr's research places the history of Ireland and its people within broader contexts, including the United Kingdom, continental Europe, the Roman Catholic Church, and the global Irish Diaspora. His expertise encompasses modern Ireland, Catholicism, British political history, and migration history. He is the author of Ireland’s Empire: The Roman Catholic Church in the English-speaking World, 1829-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2020), The European Culture Wars in Ireland: The Callan Schools Affair, 1868-1881 (University College Dublin Press, 2010), and Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman, and the Catholic University of Ireland, 1845-65 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2003). He has co-edited Nation/Nazione: Irish Nationalism and the Italian Risorgimento (University College Dublin Press, 2014) and Religion and Greater Ireland: Christianity and Irish Global Networks, 1750-1950 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015). Forthcoming works include The Irish Pope: Paul Cullen, 1803-1878 (Cambridge University Press, 2025), with future projects on Irish Catholic democracy and the global history of Irish women religious. Through his leadership in research centers and public lectures, such as the Hibernian Lecture on 'The Idea of Greater Ireland,' Barr advances scholarship on modern Irish history and its global dimensions.