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Dr Cathal McManus

BA, MA, PGCHET, PhD
Lecturer (Education)

20 College Green
School of Education
Queen’s University Belfast

Tel: +44 (0)28 9097 5914
Fax: +44 (0)28 9097 1084
E.Mail: c.p.mcmanus@qub.ac.uk

 

Leadership Roles:
Programme Coordinator Open Learning Programme

Teaching:
Open Learning Programme
Undergraduate P/T Degree modules

Research/Scholarship Interests:

Primary interests include:

  • Relationship between education and nationalism/national identity
  • Hegemony
  • Irish history and politics

Current Research
Investigating Links in Achievement and Deprivation (ILiAD): A project funded by Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM), based within the Centre for Shared Education at the School of Education (2012 - 2015).

Conference/Seminar Presentations

  • ‘Language and National Identity – The Complexities of Modern Irish Nationalism’, Institute of Irish Studies Seminar Programme, QUB, 2013
  • ‘Education, Religion and the Sectarian Divide: Catholic Education for Change, Protestant Fear of Reform in Nineteenth Century Ireland’, History of Education Conference, Winchester, 2012
  • ‘Understanding Racial Tensions in Northern Ireland: Threat, Paranoia and the Fear of Loss’, Diversity Conference, QUB, July 2010
  • ‘Nationalism from the Pulpits – The Rev. Michael P. O’Hickey, Irish Education and the Gaelic Ideal’, Education and Empire The Sixth Galway Conference on Colonialism, NUI Galway, 2010
  • ‘The necessity of de-Anglicising Ireland’: Hyde, Cultural Nationalism and Modern Perceptions of ‘Us’, Postcolonial Studies Association Annual Conference, Waterford Institute of Technology, 2009.
  • “The Troubles” with Peace: Dealing with the Legacy of Conflict in Northern Ireland, Political Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, NUI Galway, 2008.
  • ‘Pot-Holes and Collars: “The Rocky Road to Dublin” and Irish Society in the 1960s’. 1968 Turning Point, Multi-Disciplinary Postgraduate Conference, QUB, 2008
  • ‘Language and Identity in Ireland – Pearse, Cultural Nationalism and Modern Ireland’ The Life and After Life of PH Pearse Conference, University College Dublin, 2006

Publications

  • McManus, C. (2012), Nationalism from the Pulpits – The Rev. Michael P. O’Hickey, Irish Education and the Gaelic Ideal, in Dickson, Pyz and Shepard Irish Classrooms and British Empire: Imperial Contexts in the Origins of Modern Education (Four Courts Press, Dublin) pp. 206-214 
  • McManus. C. (2010), Understanding Racial Tensions in Northern Ireland: Threat, Paranoia and the Fear of Loss, International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations (Vol. 10, No. 4) pp. 217-226
  • McManus, C. (2009), Book Review: ‘Unemployed youth and social exclusion in Europe: learning for inclusion?’, by Susan Warner Weil, Danny Wildemeersch, and Theo Jansen, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education (Vol. 39, No. 1), p. 122
  • Nolan, P., McCabe, B., McCotter, S., London, T., McManus, C. (2008), Leadership and Community Relations in Northern Ireland: A report for the Community Relations Council (CRC, Belfast)