Dr James McConnel

Over the last two decades, my research has focused on various aspects of the political history of modern Ireland. During that time, my interest has focused especially on the final years of the Irish Parliamentary Party. My first book considered the IPP during the third home rule crisis of 1912-14. My work since then has focused on pre-war and wartime Irish nationalism. I have brought these interests together in my new book Irish Nationalism and the Great War: The Cultural Memory of the Irish Brigade at Fontenoy (Liverpool UP, 2026). This was supported by a Leverhulme fellowship.

In recent years, I have also written about a variety of things that interest me: time in early modern England, the history of the gunpowder plot anniversary in Ireland, and statuery in Ireland, Scotland, and America. I am currently working on two new projects: 1. A biography of Parnell; 2. The role, purpose, and perception of Oaths of Allegiance in the modern UK.

During the recent First World War centenary, I worked closely with the Northumbria World War One Commemoration Project on a series of projects about the 1914-18 conflict and the North East of England: 1. The Dominion Geordies project (funded by QUB's AHRC WW1 engagement centre); 2. The Geordie Doughboys project (funded by the US Embassy); and 3. The Tynemouth POW project (funded  by HLF). http://northumbriaworldwarone.co.uk 

 

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• ‘One morning you would open the paper … and read, Return of Parnell’: rumours, legends and conspiracy narratives about Charles Stewart Parnell’s staged death, McConnel, J. 1 Feb 2025, In: Historical Research
• Introduction: New Histories of the Irish Revolution, McConnel, J., Nic Dháibhéid, C. 1 Nov 2023, In: Contemporary European History
• ‘Out in the Cold’?: The children of the Irish Parliamentary Party and the Irish Free State, McConnel, J. 1 May 2018, In: Irish Historical Studies
• “Time and circumstance work great changes in public sentiment”: Royal Statues and Monuments in the United States of America, 1770–2010, McConnel, J. 30 Jul 2017, English Ethnicity and Culture in North America, University of South Carolina Press
• ‘Après la guerre’: John Redmond, The Irish Volunteers, and Armed Constitutionalism, 1913–1915, McConnel, J. 1 Dec 2016, In: The English Historical Review
• The esmonde family of co. Wexford and Catholic loyalty, Keogh, R., McConnel, J. 1 Jun 2015, Irish Catholic Identities, Manchester University Press
• The GAA and the Irish Parliamentary Party, 1913-18, McConnel, J. 1 Oct 2015, The GAA & Revolution in Ireland 1913-1923, The Collins Press
• The Irish Parliamentary Party and the Third Home Rule crisis, McConnel, J. Jun 2013
• The 1688 Landing of William of Orange at Torbay: Numerical Dates and Temporal Understanding in Early Modern England, McConnel, J. 2012, In: The Journal of Modern History
• Remembering the 1605 Gunpowder Plot in Ireland, 1605–1920, McConnel, J. 2011, In: Journal of British Studies

Daniel Riddell German and Scandinavian Expatriate Merchant Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth Century Newcastle-upon-Tyne: The Ongoing Practice of Personal Capitalism During the Rise of Corporate Capitalism Start Date: 01/10/2019 End Date: 12/03/2025

• Irish History PhD June 30 2002
• History MA June 30 1998
• History BA (Hons) June 30 1996