About me
Twitter link | @ODonoghueMartin |
Bio | I currently lecture in modern British and Irish history at the University of Sheffield. Prior to taking up this role, I was Lecturer in Irish and British History at Northumbria University. I have also taught history at the University of Limerick, and the National University of Ireland Galway where I was an Irish Research Council Scholar. In 2017/2018, I was the National Library of Ireland/Irish Committee of Historical Sciences Research Studentship Holder. My research examines the dynamics of political activism in modern Ireland, the development of party politics, the relationship with British rule, the Irish revolutionary period (1912-23), and commemoration. My first book, The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949, was published by Liverpool University Press in 2019 and was highly commended for the British Association of Irish Studies Book Prize. |
Member Details
Full Name | Martin O'Donoghue (Professional Historian) |
Membership Type | Professional Historian |
Experience
Education | PhD, NUI Galway (2016) M.A. (History), NUI Galway (2011) First Class Honours. B.A., NUI Galway (2010) Double-First Class Honours. |
Employment | 2020-Present Teaching Associate in Modern British and Irish History, The University of Sheffield |
Management & Administrative experience | - Social Media Officer, Irish Association of Professional Historians, 2018- |
Teaching | 2020-21 The University of Sheffield 2019-20 Northumbria University 2018-19 Module coordinator, University of Limerick Sept – Dec 2017 Lecturer, History, School of Humanities, NUI Galway Sept 2017 – March 2018 Lecturer, Youth Academy, NUI Galway Sept 2015-2017 Module Tutor, History, School of Humanities, NUI Galway Sept 2013-2015 Tutor, History, School of Humanities, NUI Galway |
Outreach activities | Media: In April 2016, I spoke at 1916 community commemorations in county Galway. I also provided outreach to a number of local secondary, vocational and primary schools in the run up to the centenary and gave a talk on the Rising to a chapter of the Irish Countrywomen’s Association. |
Committees & Associations | Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) |
Awards | Awarded status of Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (United Kingdom) 2020 |
Publications
Books | The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019) https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/51581/ |
Book Chapters | ‘Vocational voices or puppets of the Lower House? Irish senators, 1938-48’ in Nikolaj Bijleveld, Colin Grittner, David E. Smith and Wybren Verstegen (eds), Reforming Senates: Upper Legislative Houses in North Atlantic Small Powers 1800-present (London: Routledge, 2020), pp 202-215. ‘“We should for the present stand absolutely aloof”: Home Rule Perspectives on the Treaty Debate’ in Liam Weeks and Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh (eds), The Treaty: Debating and Establishing Irish Independence (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2018), pp 42-64. ‘The “humdrum little town”? – Tuam at Easter 1916’ in Marie Mannion (ed) Centenary Reflections on the 1916 Rising: Galway County Perspectives (Galway: Galway County Council, 2016), pp. 181-96. |
Peer Reviewed Journals | ‘“Ireland’s Independence Day”: The 1918 election campaign in Ireland and the Wilsonian moment’, European Review of History, vol. 26, no. 5, (2019), pp 834-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2019.1634008 ‘"As Nearly Subservient’ as it Could be"? Vocationalism and Senatorial Speaking Behaviour in the Irish Senate 1938-45', Parliaments, Estates and Representation, Vol. 36, No. 2 (2016), pp. 211-231. |
Other Journals | '1927- Tuam and North Galway in the year of two general elections', JOTS 12 (Journal of the Old Tuam Society), 2015. ‘“The renewal of a pledge of faith”? John Redmond Days in the south-east in the 1920s’, History Ireland, Vol. 23, No. 1 (January/February 2015). pp. 38-41. |
Electronic Publications | - 'The border, politics and the Commonwealth in interwar Ireland' History Matters blog, University of Sheffield, http://www.historymatters.group.shef.ac.uk/the-border-politics-and-the-commonwealth-in-interwar-ireland/ |
Reviews | James Doherty, Irish Liberty, British Democracy? The Third Irish Home Rule Crisis, 1909-1914, History Ireland, (March/April 2020), pp 65-6. |
Other | • Map of the Burning of Tuam, 20 July, 1920 in John Crowley, Dónal Ó Drisceoil and Mike Murphy (eds) The Atlas of the Irish Revolution (Cork: Cork University Press, 2017), p. 604. |