Daire Keogh

Areas of study Keogh's research and publications work addresses aspects of Irish history including politics, education, religion and gender. He has won funding from the state-sponsored Irish Research Council and its predecessor the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS), on at least two occasions: in 2007 he secured a senior research fellowship for work on the history of the Irish Christian Brothers and from 2008, project grant funding for work to edit and publish the correspondence of Cardinal Paul Cullen, for which he remains, as of 2020, principal investigator.

Voluntary posts He has served as vice-president of a national trade union, the Irish Federation of University Teachers,

Keogh became a member of the Policy and Standards Committee of Quality and Qualifications Ireland, the state body responsible for overseeing the Irish third-level qualifications framework and quality assurance structures, in April 2017, and resigned with effect from July 2020, after his appointment as DCU president. Keogh also chairs the Higher Education and Research Committee of the British Irish Chamber of Commerce, and has written an article in a national newspaper setting out some committee positions and concerns around Brexit.

he is, in a private capacity, a member of the governing body of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust, which manages more than 90 Catholic schools, and where he served for some time along with DCU's founding president, Danny O'Hare. He has also been a member of the boards of both national schools in Drumcondra and Rathfarnham and the secondary school Clongowes Wood College. He has also spoken on the topic of capturing oral accounts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keogh has qualified as a Chartered Director at the Institute of Directors. and has been a director of Women for Election which aims to boost the supply and confidence of women electoral candidates, since 2014.

DCU presidency Keogh was selected in December 2019, after an 18-month international search process,

Personal life In November 2000 Keogh married Katherine (Katie) Schott, from Indianapolis, Indiana, at the on-campus basilica of the University of Notre Dame. His wife, a graduate of Notre Dame (Lewis Hall, 1998), later a project manager and communications specialist, and both the US Embassy and the American Chamber in Ireland. Mrs Keogh also served as lead for the DCU Alumni Emerging Leaders Programme. Keogh co-edited a book on Rathfarnham's links with Irish revolutionary activity.

Publications Keogh has authored or edited, individually or jointly, at least 16 books on aspects of history, and various papers, as well as contributing multiple articles to the Dictionary of Irish Biography.

Books The United Irishmen: Republicanism, Radicalism and Rebellion (edited by David Dickson, Dáire Keogh and Kevin Whelan. Dublin, 1993: Lilliput Press) The mighty wave: the 1798 rebellion in Wexford (eds: Dáire Keogh & Nicholas Furlong. Dublin, 1996: Gill and Macmillan) The Women of 1798 (eds: Furlong, Nicholas and Keogh, Dáire. Dublin, 1998: Four Courts Press) Rebellion: a television history of 1798 (accompanying an RTE TV series) (Thomas Bartlett, Kevin Dawson, Dáire Keogh, 1998. Dublin, 1998: Gill and Macmillan) A patriot priest: the life of Father James Coigly, 1761–1798 (edited by Dáire Keogh. Cork, 1998: Cork University Press) History of the Catholic Diocese of Dublin (eds: James Kelly and Daire Keogh. Dublin, 2000: Four Courts Press) Acts of Union: the causes, contexts, and consequences of the Act of Union (edited by Dáire Keogh and Kevin Whelan. Dublin, 2001: Four Courts Press) Christianity in Ireland: revisiting the story (edited by Brendan Bradshaw and Dáire Keogh. Dublin, 2002: Columba Press) 1798: A Bicentenary Perspective (edited with Thomas Bartlett, David Dickson and Kevin Whelan. Dublin, 2003: Four Courts Press) Edmund Rice and the first Christian Brothers (Dáire Keogh (announced as the first of a series on the history of the Christian Brothers). Dublin, 2008: Four Courts Press) Cardinal Paul Cullen and His World (eds: Keogh, Dáire and McDonnell, Albert. Dublin, 2011: Four Courts Press) Rebellion & revolution in Dublin: voices from a suburb, Rathfarnham, 1913–23 (eds: Hay, Marnie and Keogh, Dáire. Tallaght, Dublin, 2016: South Dublin County Libraries) ) The Dictionary of Irish Biography articles on Fr Thomas Betagh, Bishop James Caulfield, Fr James Coigly, Friar William Gahan, Bishop Thomas Hussey, Fr John Martin, Christian Brothers founder Edmund Ignatius Rice and Archbishop J.T. Troy.