History Program
Staff Profiles
Research interests: Irish and British political and social history, 18th to 20th centuries.
Projects in Progress: A political history of Ireland from the 1860s to the 1920s; a biography of the Irish nationalist, William O’Brien.
Selected Publications:
(ed. with Frances Devlin-Glass and Helen Doyle), Ireland and Australia, 1798–1998: Studies in Culture, Identity and Migration, Sydney, Crossing Press, 2000.
Land, Politics and Nationalism: A study of the Irish Land Question, Dublin, Gill & Macmillan, 1996.
Articles:
‘Sacrifice, Liberalism and the Great War: The case of Ireland’, War and Society, xxiii (September 2005), pp. 13–21.
‘The Formation of the United Irish League, 1898-1900: The dynamics of Irish agrarian agitation’, Irish Historical Studies, no. 132, November 2003.
‘Isaac Butt and the politics of accommodation’, Australian Journal of Irish Studies, i (2001), pp. 158-66.
‘The significance of the nationalist response to the Irish land act of 1903’, Irish Historical Studies, xxviii, no. 111 (May 1993), pp. 283-305.
Chapters in Books:
‘Isaac Butt, 'British Liberalism and an alternative Nationalist tradition’, in D. George Boyce and Roger Swift (eds), Essays in Modern Irish History: A Festshrift for Patrick Buckland, Dublin, Four Courts Press, forthcoming, pp. 147–163.
‘The fall of Parnell: the political context of his intransigence’, in D.G. Boyce and Alan O’Day (eds), Parnell in perspective, London, Routledge, 1991, pp. 129–47.
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