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Dr Donal Sean Gill

  • Assistant Professor (LTA), Political Science

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Dónal Gill Biography

Dónal Gill is Assistant Professor (LTA) of Canadian Politics at Concordia University.

Dónal has a PhD in Political Science from Concordia University (2020) and a BA in History and Politics (2008) and MA in Politics from University College Cork (20210). He was awarded the Diarmuid Whelan memorial award for best dissertation for his Master's thesis on Quebec Politics.

He previously taught political science at Dawson College from 2016 to 2023, where he also served as coordinator of the Law, Society, and Justice profile and as Social Science Representative on Academic Senate. He also sat on the Executive Council of the Dawson teacher's Union. In 2022 he won the Director General's prize for teaching excellence.

He is a regular contributor in the media on matters related to Canadian/Quebec politics, writing OpEds in the Montreal Gazette and appearing on CBC, CJAD800, Global News and other outlets.

https://montrealgazette.com/author/donal-gill-special-to-montreal-gazette/

Dónal is on the board of the Siamsa Montreal School of Irish Music and is a member of the Saint Patrick's Society of Montreal.

Teaching/research interests: party politics in Canada and Ireland, political ideology, the political thought of Jonathan Swift.

View Donal Gill's CV

Teaching activities

Poli204 - Introduction to Canadian Politics
Poli356 - Political Parties in Canada
Poli314 - The Political Thought of Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Poli488 - Nationalism & Elections in Quebec, Ireland, and Canada
Poli392 - Research Design

Publications

Books
- Gill, Dónal and Vanessa Gordon. (in press) Politics, Power and the Common Good: An Introduction to Political Science (7th ed.). Pearson Education.
Publication date: September 2025
- Gill, Dónal. The Politics of Travel in Gulliver's Travels. Cork University Press.
Currently under peer review
Expected publication date: 2026

Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Gill, Dónal. (in press) "Imagined Solidarities: The Boer War & Anti-Imperialist Nationalism in Joyce's Ulysses." The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies.
- Gill, Dónal. 2020. "Travel as Education: Gulliver the Traveller and the Potential Corruptions of Seeking Betterment Abroad." Lumen: Selected Proceedings from the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 39: 239-260.
- Gill, Dónal. 2021. "Swift's Critique of the Narrative of Progress." In The Artistic Foundations of Nations and Citizens: Art, Literature, and the Political Community, edited by Ann Ward. Routledge.
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