department of History
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Mary Harris

Contact Details

• E-mail: mary.harrisnuigalway.ie
• Office: Room 409, History Department
• Extension: 3290
• Telephone: 353 91 493290

BACKGROUND

Mary Harris is originally from Cork and studied History and languages (Irish and Spanish) at University College Cork.  She completed her MA, in medieval Irish literature, in UCC and her doctorate, in History, at the University of Cambridge.  From 1992-1996 she taught Irish Studies in the University of North London.  She joined the History Department at NUI, Galway in 1996.

TEACHING INTERESTS

Undergraduate
Since coming to NUI, Galway, her teaching has focussed on nineteenth and twentieth-century Ireland, in particular on church-state relations, political ideologies, and the Northern Ireland conflict.  She has also taught on Colonial Spanish America.

Undergraduate teaching for 2011-2012
First Year: Ireland, 1912-23 (The Irish component of War and Society in the Age of the Great War)
Second Year: Irish Ideologies and Activists, 1905-1972 (colloquium, 10 ECTS)
Final Year: Power and Conflict in Northern Ireland, 1963-72 (Seminar, 10 ECTS); Northern Ireland, 1963-72 (Evening Arts, 5 ects)

Postgraduate teaching, 2010-11

MA in History
Mary is the director for the MA in History contributes to the following modules:
Sources and Resources
Historiography: Historical Debates and Controversies: Studies in Historiography
Movement, Settlement, Frontiers and Identity

MA in Irish Studies
Mary contributes to the following modules:
Ideology, Politics and Society in Ireland, 1800-1921
Divided Ireland: Politics and Society since 1921

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Current research interests include the Northern Ireland conflict; politics and conflict in early twentieth-century Ireland; religion and Irish society; Ireland and the wider world.

PUBLICATIONS

Edited Collections
With Csaba Lévai and Anna Agnarsdóttir, Global Encounters, European Identities (Pisa: Edizioni Plus - Pisa University Press, 2010) see http://www.cliohres.net/books5/books/php?book=6

With Matjaž Klemenčič, European Migrants, Diasporas and Indigenous Ethnic Minorities (Pisa: Edizioni Plus - Pisa University Press, 2009), pp. 123-155.
See http://www.cliohres.net/books4/books.php?book=6

With Csaba Lévai, Europe and its Empires (Pisa: PLUS Pisa University Press, 2008)
See http://www.cliohres.net/books3/books.php?book=6.

Sights and Insights: Interactive Images of Europe and the Wider World (Pisa: PLUS Pisa University Press, 2007). See http://www.cliohres.net/books2/books.php?book=6.

Monograph
The Catholic Church and the Foundation of the Northern Irish State (Cork: Cork University Press, 1993) 304 pp.

Articles and chapters

'Parochial, National and Universal: The Concerns of Irish Regional Publishing' in Clare Hutton and Patrick Walsh (eds), The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume V: The Irish Book in English 1891-2000 (Oxford University Press, 2011) pp 304-334 

'Aspects of Nationalism and Anti-imperialism in Ireland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries' in Mary Harris, Csaba Lévai and Anna Agnarsdóttir (eds) Global Encounters, European Identities (Pisa: Edizioni Plus - Pisa University Press, 2010), pp 169-188

’Irish Americans and the Pursuit of Irish Independence’ in Mary N. Harris and Matjaž Klemenčič (eds), European Migrants, Diasporas and Indigenous Ethnic Minorities (Pisa: Edizioni Plus - Pisa University Press, 2009), pp. 123-155.
Accessible at http://www.cliohres.net/books4/books.php?book=6

’History, Truth Recovery and Reconciliation in Contemporary Northern Ireland’ in Guðmundur Hálfdanarson (ed.) Discrimination and Tolerance in Historical Perspective (Pisa: Edizioni PLUS -  Pisa University Press, 2008) pp. 225-233.
Accessible at http://www.cliohres.net/books3/books.php?book=7

’Irish Images of Religious Conflict in Mexico in the 1920s’ in Mary N. Harris (ed.) Sights and Insights: Interactive Images of Europe and the Wider World (Pisa: Edizioni PLUS - Pisa University Press, 2007), pp. 205-226.
Accessible at http://www.cliohres.net/books2/books.php?book=6.

’Irish Historical Writing on Latin America and on Irish Links with Latin America’ in Csaba Lévai (ed.) Europe and the World in European Historiography (Pisa: Ediozini PLUS - Pisa University Press, 2006) pp. 244-65.
Accessible at http://www.cliohres.net/books/books.php?book=6.

Contributions to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004):  ’James Edward Geale Caulfeild, 8th Viscount Charlemont in vol. 10, pp. 573-7;   ’MacRory, Joseph’, in vol. 36, pp. 26-7 and  ’O’Donnell, Patrick’ in vol. 41, pp. 520-1.

’Religious Divisions, Discrimination and the Struggle for Dominance in Northern Ireland’ in Gu∂mundur Hálfdanarson (ed.) Racial Discrimination and Ethnicity in European History, Clioh’s Workshop II, (2003) pp.  205-34. Accessible at http://www.stm.unipi.it/Clioh/tabs/libri/book7.htm.

’The Catholic Church from Parnell to Partition’ in Brendan Bradshaw, B. & Daire Keogh, (eds.) Christianity in Ireland: Revisiting the Story.  (Dublin: Columba Press, 2002) pp. 205-19.

 'La chiesa cattolica irlandese da Parnell agli inizo delloStato Libero d'Irlanda e dell'Irlanda del Nord (1890-1928)', in Luciano Vaccaro and Carlo Maria Pellizzi (eds) Storia religiosa dell'Irlanda Milan: Centro Ambrosiano, 2001,  pp. 341-367.

'Whose history?' Interview with Maria Luddy, History Ireland vol. 8 no. 4 (Winter 2000) pp. 16-19.

'Early twentieth-century secularisation: the Irish response' in Paul Brennan (ed.) La sécularisation en Irlande,  (Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen, 1998), pp. 91-105.

'The Gaelic Revival: a reappraisal' in The Linguist, Vol. 36 No. 2. (1997) pp. 34-6.

’Catholicism, Nationalism and the Labour Question in Belfast, 1925-38’ in Bullán: an Irish Studies Journal vol. 3 no. 1, (Spring 1997) pp. 15-32.

' “Beleaguered but determined”: Irish Women Writers in Irish’ in Feminist Review, 51 (Autumn 1995) pp. 26-40.

’The Catholic Church, minority rights and the founding of the Northern Irish State’ in Dermot Keogh and Michael H. Haltzel (eds), Northern Ireland and the Politics of Reconciliation (Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center and Cambridge University Press: 1993) pp. 62-83. 
 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member of the management team of CLIOHRES.net, a Sixth Framework Programme Network of Excellence that examines the histories and self-representations of Europe in the past and seeks to discover new links and develop new research agendas – see http://www.cliohres.net/. Mary is a member of Thematic Work Group 6, which examines Europe and the Wider World.
Member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Irish Latin American Studies, http://www.irlandeses.org/.

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