Education and Career
O' Brennan graduated from the University of Limerick with a First Class Honours Degree in European Studies and later spent one year as a Visiting Fellow at the Varna Economics University in Bulgaria. In 2001 he obtained a PhD in political science from the University of Limerick and began teaching European politics in the Department of Government and Society. In 2005 he spent three months as a Visiting Fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies in Paris. He was also awarded a post-doctoral fellowship by the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences for work on the European Union's eastern enlargement. In 2007 he was appointed Lecturer in European Politics and Society within the Department of Sociology at NUI Maynooth.
He has lectured about the European Union in Bulgaria, Romania, the Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and the United Kingdom and has contributed opinion pieces to a wide range of international newspapers including the Buenos Aires Herald Die Welt, El Tiempo, the Guardian, the Irish Times, the Japan Times, the Scotsman and Open Democracy.
He is also a regular contributor to the broadcast media including RTE Radio in Ireland and the BBC World Service.
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