TADHG FOLEY

Tadhg Foley (the artist formerly known as ’Timothy P Foley’.) is a graduate of NUI, Galway (BA, MA, HDE) and of the University of Oxford (DPhil).  He has taught courses on the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Victorian culture and society, theorising colonization in the nineteenth century, critical theory, and gender and nation in nineteenth-century Ireland.  He is Chair of the Board of the Centre for Irish Studies and a member of the Board of Management of the Women’s Studies Centre.  He is a member of the Board and a former director of the MA in Culture and Colonialism and he has organised/co-organised several conferences on colonialism, Irish Studies, and Irish-Australian Studies.  He is also the Chair of the Archives Working Group.  He was a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at the University of San Francisco (1985-6) and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Irish Studies, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia (2000).  His doctoral work was on the concept of ’taste’ in the eighteenth century, an accomplishment in which he himself is conspicuously deficient.  His main research interest is in cultural history and the history of ideas in nineteenth-century Ireland and he has collaborated extensively with Professor Tom Boylan of the Department of Economics on the production, distribution, and consumption of economic ideas.  He is also engaged in transforming his research on taste into a book.  As part of his apostolate to the illustrious obscure, he is at present, under the rubric of colonial/postcolonial studies, especially the interrelationships between conversion, authorship/translation, and colonialism, engaged in research on the works and days of Max Arthur Macauliffe.  Macauliffe was a Queen’s College Galway graduate who became a judge in India, converted to Sikhism, did the classic translation of the Granth, the sacred book of the Sikhs, into English, and who published (with Oxford University Press in 1909) the monumental, 6-volume work, The Sikh Religion.

Selected Publications

Books/Edited Volumes

Political Economy and Colonial Ireland: The Propagation and Ideological Function of Economic Discourse in the Nineteenth Century (London and New York: Routledge, 1992).  (with Tom Boylan)

Gender and Colonialism (Galway: Galway University Press, 1995).  (joint editor with Lionel Pilkington, Seán Ryder, and Elizabeth Tilley)

Ideology and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1998).  (joint editor with Seán Ryder)

From Queen’s College to National University: Essays on the Academic History of QCG, UCG, NUI, Galway (Dublin: Four Courts Press , 1999).  (editor)

Irish-Australian Studies: Papers Delivered at the Ninth Irish-Australian Conference, Galway, April 1997 (Sydney: Crossing Press, 2000).  (joint editor with Fiona Bateman)

Irish Political Economy, 4 vols (London and New York: Routledge, 2003).  (joint editor with Tom Boylan)

John Elliot Cairnes: The Complete Works, 6 vols (London and New York: Routledge, 2004).  (joint editor with Tom Boylan)

Articles

’ "A Nation Perishing of Political Economy"’? in ’Fearful Realities’: New Perspectives on the Famine, ed Chris Morash and Richard Hayes (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1996), pp. 138-50.  (with Tom Boylan)

’From Hedge Schools to Hegemony: Intellectuals, Ideology, and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century’, in On Intellectuals and Intellectual Life in Ireland: International, Comparative, and Historical Contexts, ed Liam O’Dowd (Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University Belfast; Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1996), pp. 98-115.  (with Tom Boylan)

’Public Sphere and Domestic Circle: Gender and Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’, in Gender Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Public and Private Spheres,  ed Margaret Kelleher and James H. Murphy (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1997), pp. 21-35.

’From Political Economy to Economics and Commerce’, in From Queen’s College to National University: Essays on the Academic History of QCG/UCG/NUI, Galway, ed Tadhg Foley (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999), pp. 303-25.  (with Tom Boylan)

’English, History, and Philosophy’, in From Queen’s College to National University: Essays on the Academic History of QCG/UCG/NUI, Galway, ed Tadhg Foley (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999), pp. 384-420.  (with Fiona Bateman)

’Brotherhood at Arms: The Cairnes—Leslie Controversy’, in Contributions to the History of Economic Thought: Essays in Honour of R.D.C. Black, eds Antoin E. Murphy and Renee Prendergast (London and New York: Routledge, 2000), pp. 201-26.  (with Tom Boylan)

’James Creed Meredith’, in Dictionary of Irish Philosophers, ed Thomas Duddy (Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004), pp. 225-7.

’Thomas William Moffett’, in Dictionary of Irish Philosophers, ed Thomas Duddy (Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004), pp. 229-32.

’From Templeglantine to the Golden Temple: Religion, Empire, and Max Arthur Macauliffe’, in Evangelicals and Catholics in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, ed James H. Murphy (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005), pp. 197-208.

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