Maurice J. Casey
Research Fellow at Queens University Belfast School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics
Maurice J. Casey is an Irish historian originally from Cahir, Co. Tipperary, and currently a Research Fellow in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen’s University Belfast. His work focuses on the history of modern Ireland, queer history, and the history of international communism in the interwar world.
He holds degrees from Trinity College Dublin, the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford, where he completed his DPhil in History in 2020. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University from 2018 to 2019.
His writing has appeared in various publications, including History Today, the Irish Times, and Tribune magazine. He also writes a regular newsletter about his research, Archive Rats. Hotel Lux—An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals is his first book, and it was shortlisted for an An Post Irish Book Award in the Hodges Figgis History Book of the Year category.
Maurice Casey: The Search For Forgotten Revolutionary Lives
In this episode of the Irish Stew Podcast, host Martin Nutty welcomes back Maurice Casey to discuss the exciting developments in his life since his last appearance. Now a Research Fellow at Queen's University in Belfast, Maur...
S3E11: John Greene & Maurice Casey - Telling the EPIC Story of Irish …
In this episode we explore the “roots” and “routes” of the Irish diaspora for a very “Global Irish Nation Conversation” with CEO Patrick Greene and Historian-in-Residence Maurice J. Casey Ph.D. of Dublin’s EPIC: The Irish Emi...