Education

  • PhD, Trinity College, Dublin
  • MA, University of Minnesota
  • BA, Carleton College

Research

Research interests

  • Diplomacy of the Wilson Era
  • Anglo-Irish-American relations 1910-1937
  • Anglo-Canadian-American relations 1814-1848
  • Irish nationalism
  • Northern Minnesota

Selected publications

  • Francis M. Carroll, America and the Making of an Independent Ireland: A History (New York: New York University Press, 2021).
  • Francis M. Carroll, Athenia Torpedoed: The U-Boat Attack that Ignited the Battle of the Atlantic (U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2012)
  • Francis M. Carroll, The American Presence in Ulster: A Diplomatic History, 1796-1996 (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University Press, 2005).
  • Francis M. Carroll, Money for Ireland: Finance, Diplomacy, Politics, and the First Dail Eireann Loans, 1919-1936 (Westport: Praeger Publishers, 2002).
  • Francis M. Carroll, A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001).
  • Francis M. Carroll and Marlene Wisuri, Reflections of Our Past: A Pictorial History of Carlton County, Minnesota (Virginia Beach: The Donning Company, 1997).
  • Francis M. Carroll and Franklin R. Raiter, The Fires of Autumn: The Cloquet-Moose Lake Disaster of 1918 (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1990).

Awards

  • 2016 - Fellows Recognition Award, St. John's College, University of Manitoba
  • 2001-2002 - Albert B. Corey Prize, given by the Canadian Historical Association and the American Historical Association
  • 2001 - John Wesley Dafoe Prize, given by the J.W. Dafoe Foundation

Outreach

  • 2010 - John J. Burns Library Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies, Boston College 
  • 2000 - Visiting Irish Historian, Centre for Irish Studies, University of St. Thomas
  • 1998 - Bicentennial Fellowship, Belfast
  • 1994-1995 - John Adams Fellow, Institute of United States Studies, University of London
  • 1984-1985 - Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History, University College Dublin
  • 1980 - Visiting Scholar in International Law, Columbia University Law School

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