Professor Lewis M. Cullen

Professor Cullen is professor emeritus of Modern Irish History, Trinity College, Dublin. He graduated from University College, Galway, and the London School of Economics, and holds honorary doctorates from Belfast, Glasgow and NUI. During his career he has been Directeur Études associè, Ecole des hautes Études, Paris, 1979, visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, 1987, visiting professor at Hosei University, 1973 and 1998, a Japan Foundation fellow, 1995, and a visiting scholar at the International Research Centre for Japanese Studies, 2002-3. Among his research interests he counts Irish and French history, and, more recently, Japanese history. His publications include Anglo-Irish trade, 1660--1800 (Manchester, 1968), The Irish brandy houses of eighteenth-century France (Dublin, 2000), and A History of Japan: internal and external worlds, 1582--1941 (Cambridge, 2003).

Lectures available: 2004-02