Since 2008, Ferriter is Professor of Modern Irish History at
University College Dublin. He was formerly a senior lecturer in history at
St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra,
Dublin City University, and he was Burns Scholar at Boston College from 2008 to 2009. From 2003 to 2009, Ferriter hosted
What If, a Sunday morning radio programme on
RTÉ 1 and presented RTE's
The History Show from 2011 to 2012. He continues to cover a range of Irish historical matters on RTE and the BBC. His 2007 biography of
Éamon de Valera,
Judging Dev, won in three categories of the 2008
Irish Book Awards. In 2013, he publicly supported the political campaign
Democracy Matters, which opposed
proposals to abolish the Irish Senate. He was also centrally involved in the campaign to retain history as a core subject on the Irish Junior Certificate curriculum. In 2014, he began writing as a weekly columnist for
The Irish Times. He presents the weekly RTE history podcast,
What Were We Like?, with archivist Catriona Crowe. In March 2019, Ferriter was elected a member of the
Royal Irish Academy, Ireland's highest academic honour, for being "the most consistently innovative interpreter of the modern Irish historical experience". ==Personal life==