Prof Don MacRaild

PhD, BA, Cert Ed(HE), FRHistS
Associate Dean (Research & Innovation), Research Professor in History 

Biography

Don is Associate Dean for Research and Innovation.

Appointed as Research Professor in History in 2009, Don previously held chairs of History at the University of Ulster and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Prior to that, Don held lectureships at the universities of Northumbria and Sunderland. He is a Lancastrian with Scottish roots on both sides of his family. He was born and raised in Barrow-in-Furness. He has produced nine books or pamphlets and numerous articles and chapters. His most recent books are a study of Orangeism in Victorian England and an Irish Economic and Social History Society pamphlet on the Irish in Britain. He has been an expert reviewer for the IRCHSS, ESRC, Wellcome, as well as for many international journals. 

Qualifications

Certificate in Higher Education, University of Sunderland, 1996
PhD, University of Sheffield, 1993
BA, Liverpool Polytechnic, 1989 

Research Interests

Don has several overlapping fields of research expertise, including: the Irish in Britain and the wider British World; the history of the Orange Order outside Ireland; the history of labour and social organization; and ethnicity and ethnic conflict in the nineteenth century. He is also interested in the application of theory to historical research and in research methods. 

Research Students

Kyle Hughes, 'The Scottish Migrant Community of Victorian and Edwardian Belfast' 

Steve Shannon, 'Irish Political Organisations in the North East of England 1890 -1925'  

Don has supervised a number of thesis students in his areas of expertise and has examined doctoral candidates at Trinity College Dublin, National University of Ireland at Maynooth, London, Strathclyde and De Montfort. He is happy to hear from those wishing to work on the Irish Diaspora; migration in the British and Irish worlds; and British and Irish social and labour history. 

Affiliations and Memberships

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Executive Committee Member, Society for the Study of Labour History
Editor of Labour History Review
Editor of Immigrants & Minorities

Publications

Books:
[as editor, with Enda Delaney] Irish Migration, Networks and Ethnic Identities Since 1750 (Routledge, 2007), 304pp.

The Irish in Britain, 1815-1914 (Economic and Social History Society of Ireland series, 2006), 96pp.

Faith, Fraternity and Fighting: the Orange Order and Irish Migrants in England, c.1850-1920 (Liverpool University Press, 2005), 353pp.

[with Avram Taylor] Social Theory and Social History (Palgrave, 2004), xi+203pp.

[with Jeremy Black] Nineteenth-Century Britain (Palgrave, 2003), 349pp.

[with D.E. Martin] Labour in Britain, 1830-1914 (Palgrave, 2000), 214pp.

[with Jeremy Black] Studying History, revised and enlarged 2nd edn (Palgrave, 2000), 240pp.

[as editor] The Great Famine and Beyond: Irish Migrants in Britain in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Irish Academic Press, 2000), 303pp.

Irish Migrants in Modern Britain, 1750-1922 (Macmillan, 1999), 230pp.
Culture, Conflict and Migration: The Irish in Victorian Cumbria (Liverpool University Press, 1998), 227pp.

Chapters and Articles:
[with Malcolm Smith] `The Irish in the mining industry in England and Wales in the 19th Century: Evidence from the 1881 Census’, Irish Economic and Social History, 36 (2009), pp 36-62.

[with Malcolm Smith] ‘Paddy and Biddy no more: An evolutionary analysis of the decline in Irish Catholic forenames among descendents of nineteenth century Irish migrants to Britain’, Annals of Human Biology, 36, 5 (2009), pp 595-608.

[with Malcolm Smith] 'Nineteenth-century population structure of Ireland and of the Irish in England and Wales: an analysis by isonymy', American Journal of Human Biology, 21, 3 (2009), pp 283-289.

[with Malcolm Smith], ‘Origins of the Irish in Northern England: An Isonymic Analysis of Data from the 1881 Census’, Immigrants & Minorities, vol. 27, nos 2/3 (2009), pp 152-77. 

[Review article] 'Personal Narratives of Emigration and Adjustment', Irish Historical Studies, xxxvi, no. 141 (May 2008), pp 91-94.

[Review article] '"The Moloch of Details"? Cycles of Criticism and the Meaning of History Now', Journal of Contemporary History, 43, 1 (2008), pp 113–125.

[with J.A. Burnett], 'Scottish and Irish Migrants in the North East, c.1800-1960s', in R. Colls (ed.), A New History of Northumbria (Philimore, 2007).

[with John Belchem], 'Cosmopolitan Liverpool', in Liverpool 800: Culture, Character and History (Liverpool University Press, 2006), pp.311-93.

[with D.A.J. MacPherson] 'Sisters of the Brotherhood: Female Orangeism on Tyneside in the late 19th and early 20th centuries', Irish Historical Studies, xxxiv, no.137 (May 2006), pp.40-60.

[with A.W. Purdue], 'The North East: The Modern Period', in F.A Aalen (ed), England's Landscape (English Heritage, 2006).

'Pathways to 1913: The origins and development of traditions of industrial militancy in the UK', in R. Hill and M. Nolan (eds), New Zealand's Great Strike of 1913 (Victoria University Press, 2005), pp.260-78.

[with D.M. Jackson] 'The Conserving Crowd: mass Unionist demonstrations in Liverpool and Tyneside, 1912-13', D.G. Boyce and A. O'Day (eds), The Home Rule Crisis (Palgrave, 2005), pp.229-46.

'The Irish and Scots in the English Orange Order in the later nineteenth century', in Liam Kennedy and R J Morris (editors), Order and Dis-order: Ireland and Scotland, 1600-2001 (Tuckwell, 2005), pp.163-75, 273-6.

'Introduction: Networks and Irish migration' in MacRaild and Delaney (eds), Networks and Irish Migration since 1750, double special issue of Immigrants & Minorities, 23, 2/3 (2005), pp.127-42.

'Networks, communication and the Irish Protestant diaspora in northern England, c.1860-1914', in MacRaild and Delaney (eds), Networks and Irish Migration since 1750, double special issue of Immigrants & Minorities, 23, 2/3 (2005), pp.311-38.

'Wherever Orange is Worn: Orangeism and Irish Migration in the 19th and early 20th centuries', Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, vol. 28, 2/29, 1 (2002/3), pp.98-117.

'Abandon Hibernicisation': Priests, Ribbonmen and an Irish Street Fight in the north-east of England in 1858', Historical Research, Nov 2003, pp.557-73.