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Sat 07 Jul 2010Acclaimed historian who prompted lively debate
Peter Hart:THE DEATH of the historian Peter Hart, at the age of 46, has robbed Irish history of one of its most impressively original talents. Prof Hart was the author of a series of important, compelling and – at times – controversial books.
Peter David Hart was born in 1963 in St John’s, Newfoundland. After a prize-winning career as a history undergraduate at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, he took his MA at Yale before moving to Trinity College for his doctoral research which focused on Co Cork during 1916-23.
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