Aidan Breen completed his primary degree with the British Open University in Modern History, Philosophy and Modern English Literature, with First Honors in 1980, and in 1988 completed a Ph.D. under Prof. Ian Robinson, an eminent scholar of medieval German history, in Trinity College, Dublin. Although trained as a medievalist, with a specific field of research is medieval philology, in particular the editing and study of a range of Latin and mixed vernacular/Latin texts from the fifth to the twelfth centuries, the bulk of his teaching and some of his published research has been in modern history. He has published extensively in several learned journals on the continent and in Britain and Ireland, with three books published and another in preparation. He has lectured in several universities in Ireland and the United States and is currently a post-doctoral Research Fellow at NUI Galway.
Online Courses Taught:
HIST339 Modern Irish History from 1800 to present