Robert Savage is co-director of the Boston College Irish Studies Program and teaches in the Department of History. He received his PhD from Boston College. Professor Savage is 2007 Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh and was the Irish-American Cultural Institute Visiting Professor in Irish Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway, in 2004. He is the founder and curator of the Boston College Irish Film Series and serves on the editorial board of The Historian, The Irish Literary Supplement, and Film and Film Culture. Professor Savage is also on the Fulbright National Graduate Screening Committee for Ireland and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Post Graduate Assessment Board.
Selected Publications:
- A Loss of Innocence? Television and Irish Society 1960-1972 (Manchester University Press, 2008)
- ‘“A Stranger Among Us’ Edward Roth and the Establishment of Irish Television’ in History Ireland (forthcoming, 2007)
- ‘Sean Lemass and the Advent of Irish Television’ in The Age of Sean Lemass: Ireland 1945-1973 (2005)
- editor and contributing author, Ireland in the New Century: Politics, Culture and Identity (2003)
- Sean Lemass: A Biography (1999)
- Irish Television: The Political and Social Origins (Cork University Press, 1996)
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