Rory Sweetman

Rory Sweetman (born 1956) is a professional New Zealand historian. He teaches at the University of Otago in modern Irish history and has published widely on New Zealand’s ethnic and religious past.^[1]

Early life

Sweetman was born in Ireland and spent his childhood there and in New Zealand. He received his secondary education at St Peter's College, Auckland, New Zealand. He commenced his tertiary studies at the University of Auckland.^[2] He has history degrees from the Universities of Dublin (Trinity College) (BA (Hons) 1981) and Cambridge (Peterhouse) (Ph.D, 1991).^[3] Sweetman's doctorate from Cambridge University was on the subject, New Zealand Catholicism, War, Politics and the Irish Issue 1912-22.^[2]

Academic career

Sweetman has lived in Dunedin since 1997. He spent six years teaching modern Irish history at the University of Otago. He has written extensively on the historical links between Ireland and New Zealand, on sectarianism, politics and religion in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In 2013 he wrote a history of Otago Boys' High School to mark 150 years of its existence. He is presently working on biographical studies of Patrick Moran, first Catholic bishop of Dunedin 1869-95, and Henry William Cleary, editor of the New Zealand Tablet 1898-1910 and 6th Catholic bishop of Auckland 1910-29.^[4]

Publications

Amongst Sweetman's published works are:

• Bishop in the dock : the sedition trial of James Liston, Auckland University Press, 1997.

• A fair and just solution? : a history of the integration of private schools in New Zealand, Dunmore Press, Palmerston North, 2002.

• Faith and fraternalism : a history of the Hibernian Society in New Zealand, 1869-2000, Hibernian Society, Wellington, 2002.

• Above the City: A History of Otago Boys' High School 1863-2013, Otago Boys' High School Foundation, Dunedin, 2013,

External links

• University of Otago, Dr Rory Sweetman (retrieved 17 February 2011)

Notes

1. ↑ Concordia University, School of Canadian Irish Studies, Rory Sweetman. (retrieved 10 January 2011)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Otago Boys' High School Foundation Newsletter 31 December 2010, Sesquicentennial Celebration Book. (retrieved 10 January 2011)
3. ↑ Trinity College, Dublin, Alumni and Friends, Rory Sweetman (retrieved 10 January 2011)
4. ↑ Rory Sweetman, Associates of Irish Studies, University of Otago (Retrieved 17 February 2015)