Conor Curran

Dr Conor Curran is an Irish historian based at Trinity College Dublin. He has published extensively on the history of sport and society in Ireland and is a former FIFA Havelange Research Scholarship awardee and an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship winner. He obtained his doctorate at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester. He is the author of Sport in Donegal: a History (The History Press Ireland, 2010), The Development of Sport in Donegal 1880-1935 (Cork University Press, 2015) and Irish Soccer Migrants: a Social and Cultural History (Cork University Press, 2017). His work has also been published in leading peer reviewed academic journals including Irish Historical Studies, Irish Economic and Social History and Immigrants and Minorities. His current research focuses on the history of physical education in Ireland and the growth of soccer in Dublin.