Historiography
Professor Ian McBride
Professor McBride’s research on Irish historiography includes ‘The Peter Hart Affair: History, Ideology and the Irish Revolution’ (Historical Journal, 2018), an examination of the most acrimonious Irish historical controversy ever, revolving around the killing of ten Protestants in an unauthorized IRA attack in 1922. In establishing a more serious historiographical framework for this dispute he draws comparisons with two similar disputes, one North American and one Australian.
Relevant articles include:
- ‘The Shadow of the Gunman: Irish Historians and the IRA’, Journal of Contemporary History, 46 (July 2011), pp. 686-710.
- ‘The Peter Hart Affair: History, Ideology and the Irish Revolution’, Historical Journal, vol. 61, issue 1 (March 2018), pp. 249-271.
- G. A. Pocock and the Politics of the New British History’, in Maggie Scull and Naomi Lloyd-Jones (eds.), United Kingdom: Four Nations Approaches to Modern ‘British’ History (London, 2018), pp. 33-57.