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John Cunningham has been a lecturer in History at NUI Galway since 2004. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on labour history, on local history and on modern Ireland.
He is currently joint editor of Saothar: journal of the Irish Labour History Society.
Authored Books
2009: Unlikely radicals: Irish post-primary teachers and the ASTI, 1909-2009, Cork: Cork University Press.
2004: A town tormented by the sea: Galway, 1790-1914, Dublin: Geography Publications, 2004
1999: St Jarlath's College, Tuam: 1800-2000, Tuam: SJC Publications, 1999
1995: Labour in the west of Ireland: working life and struggle, Belfast: Athol Books, 1995
| Recent Articles | Cunningham, J. 2011, '"A class quite distinct": herds and their defence of their working conditions,' Carla King & Conor McNamara, The West of Ireland: new perspectives on the nineteenth century, Dublin: The History Press Cunningham, J. 2011, '"Spreading VD all over Connacht": reproductive rights and wrongs in 1970s Galway,' HIstory Ireland, vo.19, no.2, March-April. Download a PDF HERE Cunningham, J. 2011, 'Recovering the cargo of the Julia: salvage, law, and the killing of "wreckers" in Conamara, 1873', William Sheehan & Maura Cronin, eds, Riotous Assemblies: Rebels, Riots and Revolts in Ireland: Cork: Mercier Press Cunningham, J. 2010, Review of Niamh Puirséil, The Irish Labour Party, 1922-1973 in Journal of British Studies Vol 49, No 1, March. Available on-line at http://www.ucdpress.ie/pdfs/Journal of British Studies vol 49, no 1 Mar 2010 49154.pdf Cunningham, J, 2010, ’"Compelled to their bad acts by hunger": three Irish urban crowds, 1817-45,' Éire-Ireland, vol.45, no.1-2. Available on-line at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eire-ireland/v045/45.1.cunningham.html Cunningham, J, 2010, ’Labour lives, no.12: James M. Pringle (1883-1949)', Saothar: journal of the Irish Labour History Society, vol.35. Download a PDF HERE Cunningham, J, 2009, ’"She nearly dropped dead at the idea that someone would join voluntarily:" memories of ASTI activists, c.1960-1990', Saothar: journal of the Irish Labour History Society, vol.34. Cunningham, J, 2008, ’Popular protest and a ’moral economy' in provincial Ireland in the early 19th century', Devine, Lane, & Puirséil, Essays in Irish labour history a festschrift for John and Elizabeth Boyle, Irish Academic Press. |
Modern Ireland; Labour History; Local History; Urban History; Dynamics of Social Protest.
