Locating the Hidden DiasporaDr James McConnel
PhD, MA, BAPrincipal Lecturer in History
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Contact details: School of Arts & Social Sciences Northumbria University Lipman Building, room 319 Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST phone: +44 (0) 191 227 3946 fax: +44 (0) 191 227 3696 james.mcconnel@northumbria.ac.uk |
Biography
James studied at the universities of Sheffield and Durham. After he completed his doctorate in 2002, he worked on an ESRC-sponsored project examining the history of Welsh devolution before joining the University of Ulster as a postdoctoral researcher in 2005. In 2006 he was appointed Lecture in History at Ulster, joining Northumbria University in November 2008.
Qualifications
PhD, University of Durham, 2002
MA, University of Durham, 1998
BA, University of Sheffield, 1996
Teaching Interests
Along with teaching on core modules, James is currently developing second- and third-year options in Irish history for 2009/10.
Research Interests
James’ original doctoral research looked at party politics in Ireland in the years immediately before the First World War. Sections of it have been published in Irish Historical Studies, War in History and Past and Present. His recent work in this field has focused on the Irish nationalist leader, John Redmond, and dystopian and utopian visions of home rule. James will be on sabbatical during 2009-10 writing a monograph entitled Irish Nationalist MPs and the Death of the Irish Parliamentary Party. A second project in development looks at the history of Protestant commemoration in what historians – in a rethinking of the old terminology of empire – now term the British World. In particular James is interested in the celebration of 5 November. This anniversary was originally indigenous to England, but eventually spread across the Anglophone world and is still observed in places like Australasia and Newfoundland. Presently James is working on the history of 5 November specifically in Ireland and Canada, but future research will extend the focus, also looking at commemoration in Australia and New Zealand.
Research Students
James currently has one PhD student working on the historical accuracy of the contemporary perception of the 'Black and Tans'. He is happy to discuss doctoral projects with anyone interested in studying Ireland in the modern era.
Affiliations and Memberships
Executive Member, Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Publications
Books
[with Fearghal McGarry] (eds), The Black Hand of Irish Republicanism (Irish Academic Press, 2009).
[with Frank Ferguson] (eds), Ireland and Scotland in the Nineteenth Century (Four Courts Press, 2009).
Chapters and Articles
'Remembering the 1605 Gunpowder Plot in Ireland, 1605–1920', Journal of British Studies, 50 (October, 2011), pp. 863-91.
'John Redmond and Irish Catholic Loyalism', English Historical Review, 125, 512 (2010), pp. 83-111.
[with Fearghal McGarry], ‘Introduction’, in Fearghal McGarry and James McConnel (eds), The Black Hand of Irish Republicanism (Irish Academic Press, 2009).
[with Frank Ferguson], ‘Introduction’, in Frank Ferguson and James McConnel (eds), Ireland and Scotland in the Nineteenth Century (Four Courts Press, 2009).
[with Máirtin O Catháin], ‘Fenians in the French Foreign Legion’, History Ireland (Dec. 2008).
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