Background
Sweetman was born in Ireland and spent his childhood there and in New Zealand.
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Rory Sweetman
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He has history degrees from the Universities of Dublin (Trinity College) (Bachelor (Honours) 1981) and Cambridge (Peterhouse) (Doctor of Philosophy, 1991).
Career
He teaches at the University of Otago in modern Irish history and has published widely on New Zealand’s ethnic and religious past He received his secondary education at Street Peter"s College, Auckland, New Zealand. He commenced his tertiary studies at the University of Auckland.
Sweetman has specialised on the history of the Irish in New Zealand especially in the areas of religion, education, sectarianism and their engagement in general New Zealand politics.
He helped develop the modern Irish history programme at the University of Otago from 1997 until 2003. He is completing biographies of Patrick Moran, first Catholic bishop of Dunedin 1869-1895, and Henry William Cleary, editor of the New Zealand Tablet 1898-1910 and 6th Catholic bishop of Auckland 1910-1929.
He has written about the sedition trial of Bishop James Michael Liston and he has written a history of the integration on private schools (mostly Catholic) in New Zealand. He has written a number of institutional histories most recently a history of Otago Boys" High School which was published in 2013 in relation to its sesquicentennial.
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