Diarmuid Whelan
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Diarmuid Whelan (11 August 1971 – 1 June 2010)[1][2] was an Irish academic in the history department of UCC.[3] Born in Cork, he studied at Christian Brothers College, Cork[3] and UCC.[3] He wrote his doctoral thesis on Conor Cruise O'Brien.[3]
Besides his academic work, he had also been a sculptor and a transatlantic sailor.[3] He worked in the National Library of Ireland archiving the papers of Owen Sheehy-Skeffington where he discovered a manuscript of Peter Tyrrell which he edited and had published as Founded on Fear: Letterfrack Industrial School, war and exile.[3] He revealed that the Ryan Commission report had used the pseudonym 'Noah Kitterick' to refer to Peter Tyrrell.[4]
He wrote Conor Cruise O'Brien: The Coldest Eye, a biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien.
His research interests were in Intellectual History, Irish political history, US Foreign policy, Decolonisation, Terrorism and International relations.[3]
