Edmund M. Hogan

Edmund Michael Hogan, acquired Masters and PhD. Degrees from the National University of Ireland.  Ordained a priest for the Society of African Missions in 1969, Dr Hogan has had a rich and varied teaching career in Ireland and Africa. Among the institutions which have benefited from his presence are University College Cork, University College Dublin, St Patrick’s College Maynooth, SS Peter and Paul’s Seminary, Ibadan, Nigeria, St. Augustine’s Seminary, Zambia and, more recently, Tangaza College (Catholic University of East Africa), Nairobi, Kenya. For the past decade he has served as Archivist for the Irish Province of the Society of African Missions. Author of Catholic Missionaries and Liberia: A Study in Missionary Enterprise [(1850-1950]; and The Irish Missionary Movement; A Historical Survey, currently the standard work on that subject. Dr Hogan was a student of the distinguished Irish historian, the late Professor Oliver MacDonagh, under whose guidance he first dipped his feet into the waters of historical research and writing. He is currently working on a history of the Liberian Civil War.