Dr Ian McBride

• Eighteenth century Ireland
• Intellectual History and Cultural History of Early Modern Britain and Ireland
• Northern Ireland since 1920

 Key words: Ireland | Britain | Early Modern| Intellectual History | Cultural History | Politics and the State |

Dr McBride has written on various aspects of modern Irish history. He recently completed a general history of Ireland between 1688 and 1800 entitled Eighteenth-Century Ireland: The Isle of Slaves, to be published by Gill and Macmillan this year. His current research project, a study of the United Irishman William Drennan and his sister Martha McTier, examines gender, Dissent and republicanism in Ireland between 1776 and 1820. He is also interested more generally in politics, ideas and culture in the wider British world during the early modern period.  Dr McBride’s second major field of research focuses on the controversial role of collective memories and commemorations in Irish culture. He is the editor of History and Memory in Modern Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 2001). His recent research in this area focuses on debates over truth and reconciliation in Northern Ireland since 1998, and the relationship between political violence, representations of the past and professional historiography.  Dr McBride is organiser of the ‘Conference of Irish Historians in Britain’, which meets every two years, and joint convener of the ‘London Irish Studies Seminar’, together with Professor Clair Wills of Queen Mary, which aims to bring together students and scholars from other disciplines to support and develop research in Irish history and culture. He is also a council member of the British Assocation for Irish Studies and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Dr. McBride would particularly welcome applications from research students interested in working on:

• Any aspect of eighteenth-century Ireland
• Intellectual and cultural history of the British Isles, 1688-1800
•  Northern Ireland since 1920 

Dr McBride teaches a Group II module on The Northern Ireland Troubles, and on the undergraduate paper Early Modern Britain 1500-1750. He also teaches on the MA in Early Modern History, offering a module on Political Thought in the British Atlantic World. Dr McBride also teaches on the intercollegiate MA in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History.

Prior to joining the department in 2000, Ian McBride lectured at the University of Durham following three years as a research fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He received his PhD from the University of London, and his BA from Jesus College, Oxford. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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