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==Early life== Brendan Simms is the son of Anngret and [[David J. Simms|David Simms]], a professor of mathematics.<ref name="IT">[https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/historian-says-varadkar-has-breached-letter-and-spirit-of-the-belfast-agreement-1.3961740 Historian says Varadkar has breached letter and spirit of the Belfast Agreement], irishtimes.com, 19 July 2019</ref> He is also a grand-nephew of [[Brian Goold-Verschoyle]], a member of the [[Communist Party of Ireland]], who became a Soviet spy and died in a [[Gulag|Soviet gulag]] in 1942.<ref name="IT"/> Simms was brought up in the [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] faith.<ref name="IT"/> He studied at [[Trinity College Dublin]], where he was elected a [[List of Scholars of Trinity College Dublin|Scholar]] in 1986,<ref name=scholars>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcdlife.ie/scholars/scholar/about-list.php|title=List of Scholars|work=TCD Life|accessdate=20 December 2015}}</ref> before completing his doctoral dissertation, ''Anglo-Prussian relations, 1804β1806: The Napoleonic Threat'', at [[Peterhouse, Cambridge]], under the supervision of [[Tim Blanning]] in 1993.<ref name="Who's Who"/>
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