Ian d’Alton (Independent Scholar): 1932: Seeing the same world differently: Irish Catholics and Protestants a decade after independence

Dr Ian d’Alton is a graduate of the National University of Ireland and the University of Cambridge (PhD, 1977). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a recipient of the Society’s Alexander Prize in 1972. He was an Irish public servant, finishing his career as CEO of a state company, Housing Finance Agency plc. Since retiring, he has been an active history scholar, publishing widely on southern Irish unionism and Protestantism, ‘Big House’ historical and literary themes, and the nature of Irish loyalism. He was a Visiting Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, and a Senior Research Associate, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, in 2014. He is the author of Protestant Society and Politics in Cork, 1812-1844 (1981) and co-editor, with Dr Ida Milne, of Protestant and Irish: the minority’s search for place in independent Ireland (Cork UP, 2019). He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre for Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College, Dublin. With Dr Ida Milne, he is co-authoring The Irish Revolution 1912-23: Wicklow, in the county series on the Irish Revolution edited by Dr Daithi O Corrain and Professor Marian Lyons.  His most recent book is Southern Irish Protestants (Wordwell, 2024). His other scholarly interests lie in the field of French art medals.  He is a Council member and Membership Secretary of the British Art Medal Society.

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