Patrick O'Flanagan
Patrick O'Flanagan is an Irish geographer and academic.Career
He is emeritus professor of the at University College Cork, Ireland. He was the former Head of this department. At present, he contributes regularly to the at the University of Santiago de Compostela.
His research is mainly focused on Atlantic Europe - with a particular interest in Galicia and Atlantic Iberia - from the perspective of cultural and historical Geography. O'Flanagan helped to define and standardise the actual concept of Atlantic Europe. Other research deals with comparative evolution of port cities, rural change, housing and settlement studies.Partial bibliography
- The Living Landscape,Kilgalligan, Erris, County Mayo,, Dublin, 1974.
- Rural Ireland, 1600-1900: Modernization and Change,, Cork, 1987.
- Bandon,Irish Historic Towns Atlas, No.3, Dublin, 1988.
- Cork,History and Society,, Cork, 1993.
- Xeografía Histórica de Galicia, Xerais, Vigo, 1996.
- "Galicia en el marco geográfico y histórico de la Europa Atlántica", in Xeográfica I, pp. 115–133, Santiago de Compostela, 2001.
- Port cities of Atlantic Iberia, c. 1500-1900, Aldershot, 2008.
