Fearghal McGarry (born 16 November 1971) is an Irish historian specializing in the history of Ireland in the 20th century, currently Professor of Modern Irish History at
Queen's University, Belfast
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McGarry is the author of books about Ireland in the first half of the twentieth century. He is a member of the
Royal Irish Academy
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Education
McGarry was educated at
University College Dublin
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Trinity College Dublin
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, where he graduated in modern history.
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Career
McGarry was a lecturer in Irish History at Trinity College Dublin
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, and later a Government of Ireland research fellow at the National University of Ireland
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, Maynooth. From there, he became Senior Lecturer in History at Queen's University, Belfast
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, before appointment as Professor of Modern Irish History in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics.[Fearghal McGarry]
Queen's University, Belfast
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He was joint editor of ''Irish Historical Studies'' and a member of the editorial board of ''Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy'' (Section C). He is currently a member of the advisory group for the Ulster Museum
The Ulster Museum, located in the Botanic Gardens in Belfast, has around 8,000 square metres (90,000 sq. ft.) of public display space, featuring material from the collections of fine art and applied art, archaeology, ethnography, treasure ...
's project ''Collecting the Troubles and Beyond''.[
McGarry is the author of a number of books on Irish history in the twentieth century, including studies of Frank Ryan (2002),
]Eoin O'Duffy
Eoin O'Duffy (born Owen Duffy; 28 January 1890 – 30 November 1944) was an Irish military commander, police commissioner and politician. O'Duffy was the leader of the Monaghan Brigade of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and a prominent figure in ...
(2005), and the Easter Rising
The Easter Rising ( ga, Éirí Amach na Cásca), also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the a ...
(2010). Most of his recent work is published by the Oxford University Press
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.
McGarry is a member of the Royal Irish Academy
The Royal Irish Academy (RIA; ga, Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann), based in Dublin, is an academic body that promotes study in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. It is Ireland's premier List of Irish learned societies, learned socie ...
and in February 2021 was chosen as the Boston College
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Burns Visiting Scholar and gave the Burns Lecture on 31 March: ''Communism, Sex and All That Jazz: The Struggle Against Modernity in Interwar Ireland''. With fellow academics from the University of Edinburgh
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and Boston College, he leads a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
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History
The Arts an ...
, ''A Global History of Irish Revolution 1916-1923'', which includes museum exhibitions and special issues of ''Irish Historical Studies'' and ''History Ireland
''History Ireland'' is a magazine with a focus on the history of Ireland. The first issue of the magazine appeared in Spring 1993. It went full-colour in 2004 and since 2005 it is published bi-monthly. It features articles by a range of writers ...
'', together with a book to be published by New York University Press
New York University Press (or NYU Press) is a university press that is part of New York University.
History
NYU Press was founded in 1916 by the then chancellor of NYU, Elmer Ellsworth Brown.
Directors
* Arthur Huntington Nason, 1916–1932 ...
. The project will conclude with an international conference at Boston College in September 2021.Burns Scholar Fearghal McGarry
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Selected works
*"Irish Newspapers and the Spanish Civil War", ''Irish Historical Studies'' Vol. 33, No. 129 (May 2002), pp. 68–90
*''Frank Ryan'' (2002)
*''Irish Politics and the Spanish Civil War'' (1999)
*''Eoin O'Duffy: A Self-Made Hero'' (Oxford University Press, 2005)
*''The Rising: Ireland Easter 1916'' (Oxford University Press, 2010)
*''The Abbey Rebels of 1916: A Lost Revolution'' (Gill & Macmillan, 2015, )
*''Remembering 1916: The Easter Rising, the Somme and the Politics of Memory in Ireland'' (Cambridge University Press, 2016), with Richard Grayson
Notes
External links
Communism, Sex and All That Jazz: The Struggle Against Modernity in Interwar Ireland: A lecture by Fearghal McGarry, Spring 2021 Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies
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Video: Fearghal McGarry – the Politics of Remembering 1916: commemoration, memory and myth
Lisburn Museum
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1971 births
Academics of Trinity College Dublin
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Alumni of University College Dublin
21st-century Irish historians
Living people
Members of the Royal Irish Academy