Thomas Paul Burgess is an academic, novelist and musician from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
He attended Oxford University, studying Ethics & Moral Education, and obtained his PhD from University College Cork.
He lives in Cork, Ireland, where he is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Youth & Community Work at The School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork.
His published works include A Crisis of Conscience: - moral ambivalence and education in Northern Ireland (1993), The Reconciliation Industry: - community relations, community identity & social policy in Northern Ireland (2002), The Contested Identities of Ulster Protestants (2015) and The Contested Identities of Ulster Catholics (2018).