MA PhD LittD(Hon) Dub, MA Oxf, DLitt(Hon) Aberd, Belf, DLaws (Hon) Queen's, Ontario, FRSL, FRHistS, FBA
Roy Foster is Carroll Professor of Irish History, an endowed Chair founded in 1991 and attached to Hertford. He is the author of many books on the political, social, cultural and literary history of Ireland, and the two-volume authorized biography of W.B.Yeats. His most recent work concerns social and political change in Ireland in the late twentieth century.
Professor Foster supervises a wide range of graduate students, who attend a fortnightly seminar based at Hertford; he also teaches a heavily-subscribed undergraduate course on culture and nationalism in Ireland. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has received honorary doctorates from the University of Aberdeen, Queen’s University Belfast, the National University of Ireland, Trinity College, Dublin, and Queen’s University, Ontario, as well as an honorary fellowship of Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also a well-known cultural commentator and critic.
