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Dr James McConnel

Associate Professor

Department: Humanities

I am a historian of modern Ireland, c. 1880-1922. I joined ϲ in 2008, after working at the universities of Hertfordshire and Ulster. I am particularly interested in the political and parliamentary history of Ireland under the Union, unionism and nationalism, Irish military history, and anything else that piques my interest.

James McConnel

Over the last two decades, my research has focused on various aspects of the political history of modern Ireland. During that time, my interest has focused especially on the final years of the Irish Parliamentary Party. My first book considered the IPP during the third home rule crisis of 1912-14. My work since then has focused on pre-war and wartime Irish nationalism. I have brought these interests together in my current project, provisionally titled The Patriotic Soldier in the Irish Nationalist Imagination: From Young Ireland to the Great War. This was supported be a Leverhulme fellowship in 2019-20.

In recent years, I have also written about a variety of things that interest me: time in early modern England, the history of the gunpowder plot anniversary in Ireland, and statuery in Ireland, Scotland, and America. I am currently working on two side projects: 1. pseudocide in Ireland and Britain c. 1885-1920; 2. Ulster and the British Empire.

During the recent First World War centenary, I worked closely with the Northumbria World War One Commemoration Project on a series of projects about rhe 1914-18 conflict and the North East of England: 1. The Dominion Geordies project (funded by QUB's AHRC WW1 engagement centre); 2. The Geordie Doughboys project (funded by the US Embassy); and 3. The Tynemouth POW project (funded by HLF). http://northumbriaworldwarone.co.uk

  • Ann-Marie Foster The Ephemera of Remembrance in the Wake of War and Disaster, c. 1899-1939 Start Date: 01/10/2015 End Date: 11/06/2019
  • Daniel Riddell Start Date: 01/10/2019 End Date: 15/07/2020
  • Daniel Riddell German and Scandinavian Expatriate Merchant Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth Century Newcastle-upon-Tyne: The Ongoing Practice of Personal Capitalism During the Rise of Corporate Capitalism Start Date: 01/10/2019
  • Andrew Nelson The Influence of the Anglo-Irish War, 1919-1921, on the Evolution of Internal Security Practices in the Colonial Empire, 1922-1939 Start Date: 01/10/2010 End Date: 20/02/2014

  • Irish History PhD June 30 2002
  • History MA June 30 1998
  • History BA (Hons) June 30 1996


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