Brendan O’Connor

ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow

Brendan O’Connor is a PhD candidate in Geography and the author of Blood Red Lines: How Nativism Fuels the Right. His dissertation focuses on how the shifting political economy of world football (soccer) is changing the way the game is played in Ireland and Brazil. A wave of new owners and investors has swept across the beautiful game, each seeking to remake it to their own ends. Brendan is a 2025 ERI/PS2 Summer Public Research Fellow.