Fearghal McGarry (born 16 November 1971) is an Irish historian specializing in the history of Ireland in the 20th century, currently Professor of Modern Irish History at Queen's University, Belfast.
He is currently a member of the advisory group for the Ulster Museum's project Collecting the Troubles and Beyond.
[2] McGarry is the author of a number of books on Irish history in the twentieth century, including studies of Frank Ryan (2002), Eoin O'Duffy (2005), and the Easter Rising (2010).
McGarry is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and in February 2021 was chosen as the Boston College Burns Visiting Scholar and gave the Burns Lecture on 31 March: Communism, Sex and All That Jazz: The Struggle Against Modernity in Interwar Ireland.
With fellow academics from the University of Edinburgh and Boston College, he leads a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, A Global History of Irish Revolution 1916-1923, which includes museum exhibitions and special issues of Irish Historical Studies and History Ireland, together with a book to be published by New York University Press.