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Dr Fearghal McGarry

BA (NUI), PhD (TCD), FRHistS

Senior Lecturer in Modern History

Coordinator, MA in Irish History, MA in Modern History (S2)

On Leave, Semester 1, 2012-13

Tel: +44 (0) 28 9097 5277
E-mail: f.mcgarry@qub.ac.uk

Office: 16UQ.203

Fearghal McGarry studied history at University College, Dublin, and Trinity College, Dublin. He taught Irish history at Trinity, 1997-2000, before holding a Government of Ireland post-doctoral fellowship at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 2000-2002. He joined the School of History at Queen’s in 2002. He is joint editor of Irish Historical Studies.

Research Interests

Dr McGarry’s research specializes in modern Irish history, particularly political violence and radical ideology in revolutionary and inter-war Ireland. His first book examined Irish responses to the Spanish Civil War and he has written biographies of the socialist republican, Frank Ryan, and fascist politician, Eoin O’Duffy. He is also interested in the role of commemoration, historical memory and popular culture in independent Ireland. He has recently completed a history of the Easter Rising and an edited collection of the Bureau of Military History’s witness statements on 1916. He is currently PI of an AHRC-funded project on the life of Frank Ryan (2011-12), and an AHRC project titled 'Document file, public history and education in Northern Ireland'.

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Teaching

Dr Fearghal McGarry teaches on the following programmes / modules:

Undergraduate 

  • HIS3040 Radical politics in the Irish Free State
  • HIS3073 The Irish Revolution, 1917-1921
  • HIS2011 Politics and Society in 19th c. Ireland
  • HIS2012 Politics and Society in 20th c. Ireland

Postgraduate

  • MHY7020 Research Methods
  • MHY7035 Historiography
  • MHY7025 Historical Documents and Sources
  • MHY7030 Culture, Politics and Identity in Ireland 1541-1972
  • MHY7010 Modern History Dissertation

 

Current PhD Supervision:

  • Christopher Loughlin, ‘The political culture of the Northern Ireland labour movement, 1924-39’
  • Peter Leary, ‘'The role of the Border in the shaping of 20th-century Ireland’
  • Christopher Magill, ‘The Irish Revolution in Counties Down and Antrim, 1919-21’

 

Recent PhD supervision:

  • Dale Montgomery, 'Gender, ritual and power: the Blueshirts and Irish political culture, 1932-36', PhD. 2011
  • Patrick Smylie, ‘Irish Communism 1945-70: Cold War, partition and convergence’, PhD 2010

 

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