Research Interests:
Ireland and Irish-America, Modern Europe and
Oral History
Books:
Minds to Hands: Irish-American Women at the End of a Golden Age
of Teaching, 1920-1935 (in progress).
Servants of the Poor: Teachers and Mobility in Ireland and Irish
America. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press,
2004.
Ourselves Alone: Women's Emigration from Ireland, 1885-1920.
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1989.
Recent Research Grants:
LUC Summer 2007 Research Stipend
Recent Articles and Chapters:
The Ernie O'Malley Memorial Lecture, 2005: "The Nun Who Stopped
Traffic and the Patrick Henry of the Classroom: Justitia Coffey, Margaret
Haley, and Chicago's School Wars." Radharc: A Journal of Irish
Studies, Glucksman Ireland House, New York University (in press).
Pioneers in the Classroom: Irish-American Teachers in San Francisco
in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century." In The
Irish Experience in the San Francisco Bay Area, eds. Donald Jordan
and Timothy O'Keefe, 170-186. San Francisco: Irish Literary and Historical
Society, 2005.
"Silent Generations: New Voices in Irish America: A Review Essay
of Kerby Miller, Arnold Schrier, Bruce Boling, David Doyle, Irish
Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from
Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815;" Robert Dunne,
Antebellum Irish Immigration and Emerging Ideologies of 'America':
A Protestant Backlash; and Maureen Waters, Crossing Highbridge:
A Memoir of Irish America. American Literary History 17:3
(Fall 2005): 595-603.
"Unintended Consequences: The National Schools and Women's Mobility
in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Centuries." In Ireland
in Transition, 1867-1921, eds. George Boyce and Alan O'Day, 179-191,
268-271. London: Routledge, 2004.
Recent Reviews:
"'A Manly Study': Irish Women Historians, 1868-1949 by Nadia
Clare Smith." Irish Studies Review (in press).
"The Pastoral Role of the Roman Catholic Church in Pre-Famine
Ireland by Emmet Larkin." The Historian (in press).
"The Bible War in Ireland: The 'Second
Reformation' and the Polarization of Protestant-Catholic Relations,
1800-1840 by Irene Whelan." History: Reviews of New Books (Spring,
2006).
"Private Histories: The Writing of Irish Americans, 1900-1935
by Ron Ebest." History: Reviews of New Books (Winter 2006).
"'Your Fondest Annie': Letters from Annie O'Donnell to James
P. Phelan, 1901-1904," ed. Maureen Murphy, Irish Literary
Supplement (Spring 2006).
The Shamrock and the Lily: The New York Irish and the Creation
of a Transatlantic Identity, 1845-1921, by Mary C. Kelly. Journal
of American History (Spring 2006).
Pearse's Patriots: Saint Enda's and the Cult of Boyhood, by
Elaine Sisson. Irish Studies Review 13:1 (February 2005).
The American Irish, by Kevin Kenny. Journal of American
Ethnic History (Fall 2004).
Recent Invited Lectures:
Respondent,"Irish Gender in the Atlantic World," and panelist,"
Closing Plenary." The Irish in the Atlantic World, College of
Charleston (S.C.), February-March, 2007.
"Nicholas II: The Last Romanov," The Teaching Company,
March 2006.
"'The Nun Who Stopped Traffic' and the 'Patrick Henry of the
Classroom': Justitia Coffey, Margaret Haley, and Chicago's School
Wars,'" Michael Sundermeir Memorial Lecture, Creighton University,
Omaha, November 2005.
"'The Nun Who Stopped Traffic' and the 'Patrick Henry of the Classroom'":
Justitia Coffey, Margaret Haley, and Chicago's School Wars," O'Malley
Memorial Lecture, Glucksman Ireland House, New York University, November
2005.
"Irish Women's Immigration to the United States in the Late Nineteenth
and Early Twentieth Centuries," Smurfit-Stone Corporation Endowed
Professorship in Irish Studies, Center for International Studies,
University of Missouri-St. Louis, October 2005.
"Minds to Hands: The End of a Golden Age of Teaching, 1920-1935,"
Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mother House, Dubuque,
IA, June 2005.
"Chicago's School Wars and Irish-American Teachers in the 1920s
and 1930s," Irish-American Teachers Association, Chicago, June
2005.
"The Nun Who Stopped Traffic: Justitia Coffey and Chcago's School
Wars," Gannon Center for Women and Leadership, Chicago,, February
2005.
"Servants of the Poor: Irish-American Teachers in Chicago at
the Turn of the Twentieth Century," Irish American Heritage Center,
Chicago, November 2004.
"Minds to Hands: A Work in Progress," Loyola University
Chicago Graduate Seminar, April 2004.
"Pioneers in the Classroom: San Francisco's Irish-American Teachers
at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," Crossroads Irish American
Festival and New College of California, San Francisco Public Library,
San Francisco, March 2004.
"Researching Irish America," New College of California,
March 2004.
Recent Television Appearance:
"The Golden Door," Part I, "Destination America," PBS, October 2005.
Recent Oral History Workshop:
"What Is Oral History?," American Academy of Pediatrics, September
2005 and March 2006.
Recent Courses:
HISTORY 102: The Evolution of Western Ideas and Institutions of the
West Since the Seventeenth Century
HISTORY 300: Ireland, 1916 to the Present
HISTORY 325: Europe, 1900-1945
HISTORY 333: Ireland From Colony to Nation State
HISTORY 384: The Irish Diaspora in America
HISTORY 425: Graduate Seminar: Twentieth Century Ireland
HISTORY 425: Graduate Seminar: Topics in Modern Irish History-Twentieth Century Ireland-Irish America and the Trans-atlantic Experience
Office Hours (Spring 2007):
Tu 11:00-Noon, 2:30-4:00, and by appointment.
Office Telephone:
773-508-2227
E-mail address:
jnolan@luc.edu
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