Daire Keogh
Daire Kilian Keogh (born July 1964) is an academic historian and third-level educational leader, president of Dublin City University (DCU) since July 2020.
Professor Daire Keogh | |
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Prof Daire Keogh, President of DCU, Ireland, with musician Moya Brennan at an official DCU event in 2022 | |
| Born | July 1964 (age 59) Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Spouse | Katie Keogh |
| Children | 4 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Synge Street CBS |
| Alma mater | University College Dublin |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Historian |
| Institutions | St Patrick's College (Drumcondra) Dublin City University |
Keogh graduated in history, later taking a PhD while working part-time as a school teacher. He was a lecturer at a number of Irish third-level institutions, and then professor at, and later president (2012–2016) of, Ireland's main teacher training college, St Patrick's, Drumcondra. He has written or edited more than a dozen books in the fields of Irish revolutionary and religious history. After St Patrick's merged fully into DCU he was appointed as the university's deputy president, and after a long search process in 2018 and 2019, he was selected to become DCU's fourth president as of July 14, 2020, for a term of 10 years.