Publications
Forthcoming
'Ulster: debates, demands and divisions: The battle for (and against) the vote', Louise Ryan and Margaret Ward (eds), The Irish Suffrage Movement, 2007
'Gender, Culture and 'the Spiritual Empire': The Irish Protestant Female Missionary Experience'
Women's History Review, April, 2007
Published:
Books:
Myrtle Hill, Women in Ireland: A Century of Change, Blackstaff Press, September, 2003
Myrtle Hill, The Time of the End: Millenarian Beliefs in Ulster Belfast, 2001
Myrtle Hill & Vivienne Pollock, Women of Ireland, Image & Experience c1880-1920 (2nd edtn.) Belfast, July, 1999
Evangelical Protestantism in Ulster, 1740-1900 (With David Hempton), Routledge Press, London, 1992
Co-edited Books:
Raymond Gillespie and Myrtle Hill (eds) Sources and Resources in Local History, Institute of Irish Studies, 1998
Myrtle Hill, Ken Dawson and Brian Turner (eds) 1798: Rebellion in Down, Colourpoint Press, 1998
Myrtle Hill and Sarah Barber (eds.), Aspects of Irish Studies Institute of Irish Studies, 1990
Book Chapters
'Watchmen in Zion: millennial expectancy in late eighteenth-century Ulster', Crawford Gribben and Andrew Holmes (eds.), Protestant millennialism, evangelicalism, and Irish society, 1790-2000, Palgrave MacMillan, Hampshire and New York, 2006, pp. 31-51
'Women's Work: The Presbyterian Zenana Mission, 1874-1914' in Rosemary Raughter (ed.), Religious Women and Their History: Breaking the Silence, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 2005, pp. 82-97
'Fermanagh: The Protestant People c1750-1912', Eileen M. Murphy and William J. Roulston (eds.) Fermanagh: History & Society, Geography Publications, Dublin (2004), pp. 387-408
'The Scholar on the Stagecoach: John O'Donovan and the Ordnance Survey Memoirs', Brian Turner (ed.), The Heart's Townland: Marking Boundaries in Ulster, 2004, pp. 43-7
'Challenging the State we're in: The Feminist Seventies in 'Troubled' Northern Ireland', Helen Graham, Ann Kaloski, Ali Neilson and Emma Robertson, (eds.), The Feminist Seventies, Raw Nerve Books, York, 2003, pp. 75-90
'Investigative History: A case Study: Lord Farnham and the 'Second Reformation''', Brian S. Turner (ed.), The Debateable Land: Ireland's border counties Downpatrick, 2002, pp. 76-83
'Expressions of Faith: Protestantism in Nineteenth-Century Tyrone' in H. A. Jeffries (ed) Tyrone: History & Society, Geography Publications, Dublin, 2001, pp. 637-63
'Literature and Local History' in Raymond Gillespie and Myrtle Hill (eds) Sources and Resources in Local History, Institute of Irish Studies, Belfast, 1998, pp. 62-78
'The Protestant Religious Reaction' in Myrtle Hill, Ken Dawson and Brian Turner (eds) 1798: Rebellion in Down, Colourpoint Press, 1998, pp. 60-77
'Religion and Society: Protestantism in County Down' in Down: History & Society: Interdisciplinary Essays on the History of an Irish County (ed) Lindsay Proudfoot, Geography Publications, Dublin, 1997, pp.489-522
'Assessing the Awakening: The 1859 Revival in Ulster' in Church and People in Britain and Scandinavia (ed) Ingmar Brohed, Lund University Press 1996, pp197-213.
'Women and Protestant Minorities in Eighteenth-Century Ireland' (With D. Hempton), in Women in Early Modern Ireland (ed.) M. MacCurtain and Mary O'Dowd, Boethius Press, Dublin, 1991, pp. 197-211
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
'Lessons and Legacies': Feminist Activism in the North c1970-2000, Women's Studies Review, Volume 9 2004, pp. 135-150
'Reflecting on Re-Presentations: Writing the History of 20th Century Irishwomen', Women's History Magazine, Issue 47, Summer 2004, pp. 4-10
'Re-visioning Women's Studies', Feminist Theory, Volume 4 (3) December, 2003, pp. 355-8
'Women to Women: The role of Irishwomen in Protestant Foreign Missions, 1874-1914', Subsidiary to Studies in Church History, Winter, 2000, pp. 170-85
'Ulster Awakened? The '59 Revival Reconsidered', The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 41, No. 3, July 1990, pp 443-62
'Godliness and Good Citizenship: Evangelical Protestantism and Social Control in Ulster, 1790-1850' (With D. Hempton), Soathar, Journal of the Irish Labour History Society, 1988, pp 68-80
'Popular Protestantism in Ulster in the post-rebellion period c1790-1810', Studies in Church History, Vol. 25, eds. E. J. Shiels and D. Wood, 1989, pp 191-202
Journal Editing
Guest Editor (with Moya Lloyd), Irish Journal of Feminist Studies: Special Issue on Women and Families in Ireland, Autumn, 1999
Research Report:
Myrtle Hill and Carol Wilson, Women and Access: Opportunities and Constraints, Institute of Continuing Education, Research Report Number 4, 1997
Other
Myrtle Hill, Fran Porter, Eithne McLaughlin and Caroline McAuley, (March, 2006), Eighty Years of Talking about Equality in Northern Ireland: A History of Equality Discourses and Practices, working paper 5, Equality and Social Inclusion in Ireland Project, Queens University Belfast
Entries in James S. Donnelly, Jr. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture (New York, 2004): Methodism, Peace Movement in Northern Ireland, Women's Movement in Northern Ireland
Entries in the New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004): Adam Averell, Amy Beatrice Carmichael, William Gibson, Anne Lutton, Benjamin McDowell, Martha Maria Magee, Samuel James Moore, Isaac Nelson, Edward Smyth
Entries in Encyclopedia of Ireland: (Gill & MacMillan, 2003); Adam Clarke, Methodist Church, Gideon Ouseley, Primitive Wesleyan Methodists, John Wesley
'Feminist Methodology, ' Robert L. Miller and John D. Brewer (eds.), The A-Z of Social Research (London, 2003), pp. 117-20
'Women in Early Modern Ireland' (with David Hempton), in Angela Bourke, Siobhan Kilfeather, Maria Luddy, Margaret MacCurtain, Gerardine Meaney, Mairin Ni Dhannchadha, Mary O'Dowd and Clair Wilis (eds.), The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Volume IV: Irish Women's Writing and Traditions (Cork, 2002), pp. 499-502
'Women and Protestant Minorities in Eighteenth-Century Ireland' (With D. Hempton), Diane Urquhuart and Alan Hayes (eds.), Irish Women's History Reader, (Routledge Press), 2001, pp. 119-125
Biographical entries in A Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, Blackwell 1996: Anne Jane Carlisle; Alice Cambridge; James Carlisle, Henry Cooke; Margaret Davidson; John Edgar; Hugh Hanna; William Henry Krause; Anne Lutton; Henry Maturin; Benjamin McDowell; William McIlwaine; Mortimer O'Sullivan.
Local
'A New Age for Women's Studies?' Special edition of Women's News (Belfast and Cork, May, 2003), pp. 14-16
'From Down to Dohnavur: The Life of Amy Carmichael', Down Survey 2000, The Yearbook of Down County Museum (Down, 2000), pp. 90-98
The Serious Pleasures of the Mind: A History of Adult Education at Queen's University, Belfast, Internal Publication, ILL., May 1995
'Museums: A User's View (with John Lynch), in Journal of the Irish Museums Association, Autumn, 1994
'Regionalism: A Northern Irish Perspective' in Culture in Ireland: Regions, Identity and Power, Institute of Irish Studies, 1993, pp 72-82
'Images of the Past: Photographs as Historical Evidence' (With V. Pollock), in History Ireland, Vol. 2 (Spring), pp 9-14
