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JOHN CUNNINGHAM

. E-mail: john.cunninghamnuigalway.ie

Office: Room 313, Tower Block 1, Floor 1

Extension: 5642 (+353-(0)91-495642 external)

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.

Teaching

John teaches the following modules:

Second-year modules:
- HI208: The Two Irelands in the 20th Century

Final-year modules:
- HI165: Life in Urban Galway from the Act of the Union to the Anglo-Irish Treaty (Seminar)
- HI488: Labour in Irish Society & Politics in Ireland, c. 1800-1960

MA History modules
- HI160: Studies in Local History

Research Interests

John's principal research interest is in the moral economy of pre-Famine Ireland, to which end he is investigating conflicts about food in urban areas. Also interested in labour biography, he is collaborating with Dr Emmet O'Connor on a collection of biographical essays.

PUBLICATIONS

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. (2012), 'L'Irish Trade Union Congress et le nationalisme irlandais,1894-1930', Bulletin d'histoire politique, vol. 21, no. 1, automne 2012, pp. 71-95

Cunningham, J. (2012), Review of Katie Holmes and Stuart Ward (eds), Exhuming Passions: The Pressure of the Past in Ireland and Australia, in Critical Social Policy, vol. 32, no. 4, November 2012, pp. 720-22

Cunningham, J. (2012), 'Something that is new and strange': the 1911 Irish Trade Union Congress in Galway', Galway Archaeological & Historical Society Journal, vol. 64, pp. 169-82

Cunningham, J. (2012), Review of Emmet O'Connor, A labour history of Ireland, 1824-2000, in (Australian) Labour History, no. 103, November 2012, pp. 279-80

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 19^th century', Devine, Lane, & Puirséil, Essays in Irish labour history a festschrift for John and Elizabeth Boyle, Irish Academic Press.

RESEARCH SUPERVISION

PhD students currently working with John Cunningham are researching local / regional aspects of Irish labour history, the Irish land question, and the Irish revolution. He was research supervisor of the following recent graduates:

Jacqueline Maria Callan (Uí Chionna), PhD (2011), ’The history of the Galway fishery during the ownership of the Ashworth family, 1852-1922.’

Roy Hunt, M.Litt. (2011): ’Painful progress: the slow evolution of Co. Roscommon society, 1850-1914.’

Bernard Kelly, PhD (2010), ’Prisoners of history: Irish ex-servicemen, the de Valera government, and Irish society, 1945-48.’

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This page was last updated Friday, December 07, 2012

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