Personal statement
My work focuses on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and themes of migration, political violence, nationalism and radicalism, mainly relating to Ireland and the Irish diapsora. I completed my doctorate at the European University Institute, Florence. Before coming to Strathclyde, I worked at Bielefeld University, Germany, NUI Glaway and the University of Edinburgh.
My new book is called Changing Land: Diaspora Activism and the Irish Land War and will appear in 2021 with NYU Press, in the Gluckman Irish Diaspora Series. It is based on research supported by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Intra-European Fellowship and examines radical networks in Ireland and Irish migrant communities in Scotland, England, the United States and Argentina. My first book is The Dynamiters: Irish nationalism and political violence in the wider world, 1867-1900, which appeared with Cambridge University Press in 2012.
My next project is a book length study of John O'Dwyer Creaghe, an Irish emigrant who became a leading figure in the large anarchist movement in Argentina at the turn of the twentieth century.
I teach the history of modern Ireland at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and I also run a year-long undergraduate module on the global history of terrorism.
Along with teaching and research, I’m interested in the interpretation of history through music and film. I am presently working on a collaborative project with musicians on primary historical sources and music. I have organised the mini-film series Screening Irish History which has run at the Glasgow Film Theatre, the CCA Glasgow and Edinburgh’s Filmhouse.
At Strathclyde I am the History rep for the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities, and I am the Erasmus and International Exchange co-ordinator for History.
Links:
http://strathclyde.academia.edu/NiallWhelehan
https://twitter.com/Niallnineteen/
Teaching
I teach undergraduate and postgraduate modules on the history of Ireland and Irish migration, and the history of political violence and terrorism.
I welcome applications from potential PhD students who wish to work on areas of:
- modern Ireland and the Irish diaspora
- migration
- terrorism and political violence
- Cinema and Irish history
Professional activities
- Terrorism and Transnationality
- Invited speaker
- 2021
- European Social Science History Conference 2021
- Speaker
- 2021
- Changing land: Emigrants and visions of radical reform in nineteenth-century Ireland
- Speaker
- 2021
- Global Labor Migration: Past and Present
- Speaker
- 2019
- Ireland, Ukraine and Empire
- Speaker
- 2019
- A Global History of the Irish Revolution 1916-23
- Invited speaker
- 2019
More professional activities
Projects
- Hear the Hammers Ring: Shipyard Workers, Literary Culture and Communities in Clydeside and Belfast, 1840-1914
- Whelehan, Niall (Co-investigator)
- AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award 2021-2025. This supervisor-led studentship application was led by Prof. Kirstie Blair, with myself as second supervisor, and the Scottish Maritime Museum. The student (Ronan McGreechin) was selected after interview. (£72K).
- 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2025
- Bring your own Hammer: History, Music and Migrant Lives
- Whelehan, Niall (Principal Investigator)
- This project combines music, digital technologies and primary historical sources to engage with new audiences through the creation of an original song-cycle and website on the topic of migration. External collaborators include the musicians, the Verdant Works Museum, Scotland, the Irish Emigration Museum, Dublin, the University of Limerick, and the Irish Consulate General, Scotland. The reach and significance of the project’s impact will be substantial, aiming to change perceptions of Irish migration in profound ways. This project aims to be one of the three History impact case studies for the next REF cycle.
- 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2022
- Emigrant Irishwomen and Dundee’s Textile Industry, 1830-1930
- Whelehan, Niall (Principal Investigator)
- 50% share on successful supervisor-led AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award studentship application, £72K. The studentship began on 1 October 2019, the student selected after interview is Niamh Coffey. (Co-supervised with the University of Edinburgh).
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2023
- Diaspora, Colonialism, Anarchism and the Transnational Life of an Irish Doctor in South America
- Whelehan, Niall (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2022
More projects
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