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Darren M O'Byrne

Dr Darren O'Byrne

BA MA PhD

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  • School Arts & Humanities Department of German and Dutch Faculty of History
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Darren is a historian of modern Germany. His research explores the country's politics, government, and administration from 1871 to the present.

Darren M O'Byrne

Darren O鈥橞yrne received his PhD in History from the University of Cambridge, as well as a Bachelor鈥檚 Degree in History and Politics and a Master鈥檚 Degree in the History of International Relations, both from University College Dublin. During his doctoral studies he was a DAAD research fellow at Berlin鈥檚 Humboldt University, and a visiting fellow at the Technical University in Berlin. Since receiving his PhD he has held a visiting fellowship at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, and taken up a position as a Research Associate and Affiliated Lecturer in Modern German History at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics.

Darren is working on his first monograph, an interdisciplinary study of the civil service in Weimar and Nazi Germany. He is also working on different projects relating to sport and sports journalism in the interwar period.

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