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MRes Irish Local History

Queen's is launching a new Masters by Research (MRes) programme in Irish Local History in September 2013.

The programme is aimed primarily at individuals interested in undertaking a major research project in a local history topic relating to Ulster or the island of Ireland more generally. People wishing to return to study and/or wishing to undertake the programme part-time (over 31 months) are particularly welcome, although the programme is also available for full-time study over 12 months.

The MRes is designed to offer tailored training, guidance and support to people wishing to turn an existing interest in a local history topic into an academic project, ideally with a view to future publication.

The MRes features:

  • An extended research dissertation of up to 30,000 words.
  • A research training course on the 'Theory and Method of Local History'
  • A thematic course on 'Themes in Modern Irish Local History'
  • A thematic course on 'Migration, Family and Community in Ireland and its Diaspora'
  • Optional courses on 'Historical Documents and Sources' or a 'Public History Internship'

Aspects of these courses are offered in collaboration with the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies, Omagh, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast, and other institutions in the Museums, Archives and Libraries sector in N. Ireland.

Members of staff involved in teaching and in supervising dissertations on the MRes include:

Dr Olwen Purdue (convenor): History of Ulster 19-20th centuries; landed estates; poverty, welfare, public health and the workhouse; Belfast history

Dr Elaine Farrell: History of Ireland 19th century; family and women's history; crime and punishment

Dr Paddy Fitzgerald (MCMS): History of Irish emigration 17th-19th centuries; rural history; emigration and internal migration in Ulster

Dr Marie Coleman: History of Ireland 20th century; Irish revolution; political history; gender history

Prof. Sean Connolly: History of Ireland 17th-19th centuries; history of politics and religion, especially Catholicism; Belfast history; urban cultures

Prof. Peter Gray: History of Ireland 19th century; Great Famine and rural society; welfare history; political cultures and movements

Prof David Hayton: History of Ireland 17th-18th centuries: political and social elites and institutions; history of religion, especially Anglicanism

Dr Andrew Holmes: History of Ulster 18th-20th centuries; history of religion, especially Presbyterianism; history of science and education; Unionism

Prof Keith Jeffery: History of Ireland 19th-20th centuries; military history

Dr Fearghal McGarry: Irish History 20th century; Irish revolution; political history; nationalism and republicanism; memory

Dr Sean O'Connell: Irish/British History 20th century; working class life and culture; consumerism; masculinity; Belfast history

Prof. Mary O'Dowd: Irish History 16th-19th centuries: women and gender; history of marriage

 

For more information about the MRes in Irish Local History contact the convenor, Dr Olwen Purdue (o.purdue@qub.ac.uk)

For more information on other Masters programmes in the School, and on Masters fees and funding, click here.

Download MRes leaflet (pdf file).