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Dr Fearghal McGarry

BA (NUI), PhD (TCD), FRHistS

Senior Lecturer in Modern History

History Postgraduate Research co-ordinator

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 was joint editor of Irish Historical Studies (2008-2013).

Research Interests

Dr McGarry’s research focuses on twentieth-century Ireland, particularly radical ideology and political violence. 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. His recent research focuses on the revolutionary period. He has completed a history of the Easter Rising and an edited collection of the Bureau of Military History’s witness statements on 1916. He is also interested in commemoration, public history and historical memory. He is currently working on a publication exploring the relationship between the Abbey Theatre and the Irish revolution. He is PI of an AHRC-funded 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  • MHY7025 Historical Documents and Sources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:

  • 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:

  • Christopher Loughlin, ‘The political culture of the Belfast labour movement, 1924-39. Ph.D. 2013
  • 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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