About Marianne Elliott (historian)
Marianne Elliott (born 1948) is an Irish historian who was appointed OBE in the 2000 Birthday Honours. == Career == Elliott was born on 25 May 1948 in Raholp, County Down, Northern Ireland, brought up in Belfast, and educated at Dominican College, Fortwilliam, Queen's University Belfast, and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She lectured in History at West London Institute of Higher Education 1975 to 1977, and was a Research Fellow at University College, Swansea, from 1977 to 1982. After short spells at Iowa State University and the University of South Carolina, she was a research fellow at the University of Liverpool from 1984 to 1987, and Simon Fellow at the University of Manchester from 1988 to 1989. She was a lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, from 1991 to 1993, when she became the Andrew Geddes and John Rankin Professor of Modern History at the University of Liverpool. She was, until her retirement from the post, also the Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at the university. She has written extensively on Irish history, receiving many awards for her work. Particularly notable publications include her biography of Wolfe Tone (1989), and more recently Catholics of Ulster: A History (2000) and a biography of Robert Emmet (2003). Her research interests are political and cultural history, religious identities, eighteenth-century Ireland and France and the history of Ulster. In 2005, she delivered the Ford Lectures at Oxford University on "Religion and Identity in Irish History", which were published as When God Took Sides.
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