John H. Whyte
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Professor John H. Whyte (born 30 April 1928, Penang, Malaysia -- died 16 May 1990, New York, USA) was an Irish historian, political scientist and author of books on Northern Ireland, divided societies and on Church-state affairs in Ireland.
John Whyte served as a senior academic in Queen's University, Belfast before becoming Professor of Politics in University College Dublin. His studies on Northern Ireland and on the role of the Catholic Church in Ireland became much-quoted source books for politicians, researchers and academics.
John Whyte died after collapsing from a stroke while travelling to a conference in the United States in 1990.
He was succeeded as Professor of Politics in UCD by Professor Tom Garvin.
The John Whyte Memorial Lecture is held annually in UCD. A John Whyte trust fund was also established to pay for post-graduates in QUB and UCD to study cross-border Irish topics.
John H. Whyte's wife Jean Whyte is a prominent academic, Senior Lecturer Emerita in Psychology and Fellow of Trinity College Dublin.
[edit] Books
- John H. Whyte, Church and State in Modern Ireland, 1923-1979 (Gill & Macmillan, 1989)
- John H. Whyte, Interpreting Northern Ireland (Oxford University Press, 1990)
[edit] Monographs
- Whyte, "How much discrimination was there under the unionist regime, 1921-68?" in Tom Gallagher and James O'Connell (eds), Contemporary Irish Studies (School of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, 1983)
- Whyte, "Ireland: Politics without social bases" in Richard Rose, Electoral Behaviour (Free Press, 1973)
