Dr Paddy McNally

Dr Paddy McNally

Head of Division: History and Sociology

Qualifications
BA, PhD (Queen’s University, Belfast)
FRHistS

Teaching Interests
Paddy McNally’s teaching interests are in Irish history from 1690 until 1848, German history from 1870-present and the history of nationalism.

Major Publications
 Parties, Patriots and Undertakers. Parliamentary politics in early Hanoverian Ireland, Dublin: Four Courts Press (1997)

 ‘Wood’s Halfpence, Carteret and the government of Ireland, 1723-6’, Irish Historical Studies, 30, 119 (May 1997), 354-76

‘The Hanoverian Accession and the Tory Party in Ireland’, Parliamentary History, 14, 3 (1995), 263-83

‘“Irish and English Interests”: national conflict within the Church of Ireland episcopate in the reign of George I’, Irish Historical Studies, 29, 115 (May 1995), 295-314

‘The whole people of Ireland’. Patriotism, national identity and nationalism in eighteenth-century Ireland’, in Scott Brewster et al. (eds.) Theorising Ireland. History Gender, Space, London: Routledge (1999).

 ‘The making of the Protestant Ascendancy, 1690-1760’, in H.T. Dickinson (ed.) The Blackwell Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain, Oxford: Blackwell (2002)

‘William King, Patriotism and the “National Question”’, in Chris Fauske (ed.) William King and the Anglican Irish Context, Dublin: Four Courts Press (2004).

‘Rural Protest and “Moral Economy”: the Rightboy Disturbances and Parliament’, in Allan Blackstock and Eoin Magennis (eds.) Politics and Political Culture in Britain and Ireland 1750-1850: Essays in Tribute to Peter Jupp, Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation (2007)

Dr McNally is currently working on From the Boyne to the Famine. A thematic history of Ireland 1690-1848 to be published by Routledge and an edition of the correspondence of Hugh Boulter, Archbishop of Armagh 1724-42, with Dr Kenneth Milne (official historiographer of the Church of Ireland) (due for publication in 2009).

Membership of Professional Bodies
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (elected 1998)

Member of the Economic and Social History Society of Ireland

Member of the Irish Historical Society

Member of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society

Reviewing
Book reviewer for English Historical Review; History; Parliamentary History; Irish Studies Review; American Historical Review; European Review of History; Eighteenth-Century Ireland; Irish Economic and Social History; Irish Historical Studies; Parliament, Estates and Representation; Journal of Ecclesiastical History; and H-ALBION.