Dr Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid

B.A. (UCC), M.A., Ph.D. (Queen’s University Belfast)

Lecturer in Modern History

Irish and British History; Political Violence; The History of Terrorism; The History of Childhood

Office Hours: Autumn 2013-14 - Wednesdays 11am-1pm

c.nicd@sheffield.ac.uk

+44 (0)114 22 22553
 

Jessop West 2.04

Major Publications

Biography

Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid will join the department in the summer of 2013. She studied History and French at University College Cork, before undertaking an M.A. and Ph.D. in Politics at Queen’s University Belfast. In 2009-10 she was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University Belfast, and from 2010-2012 she was Rutherford Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

She works primarily on Irish history, the history of political violence, and the history of terrorism since the nineteenth century.

Membership of Professional Bodies

To follow.

Research

Caoimhe is currently engaged in two research projects. The first, entitled ‘Writing Terrorist Lives’ is a study of individual engagement with varieties of political violence from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century. It considers journeys from radicalisation, to mobilisation, to activism, and beyond to disengagement and re-engagement. Ranging across both geographical and historical locations and the ideological spectrum, it aims to explore the range of human experience which lies behind the blunt label of ‘terrorist’.

Caoimhe’s second project is in the field of Irish history, and is a study of the children of the executed men of the Easter Rising of 1916. This explores issues of memory, state commemorative practices, the forging of personal identities in the shadow of national foundational myth, as well as the legacies of political violence.

Research Supervision

Caoimhe welcomes enquiries from prospective students interested in pursuing research into the history of political violence, Irish history, and terrorism studies.

Current PhD Students

To follow.

Administrative Roles and Responsibilities

To follow.

Selected Publications

- Sean MacBride: A Republican Life (Liverpool University Press, 2011)

- The Irish National Aid Association and the radicalisation of public opinion in Ireland, 1916-1918’, The Historical Journal, vol. 55 no. 3 (September 2012), pp.725-729.

- ‘“This is a case in which Irish national considerations must be taken into account”: the breakdown of the MacBride-Gonne marriage, 1904-1908’, Irish Historical Studies, vol. xxxvii no. 144 (November 2010), pp. 64-87.

- ‘Throttling the IRA: Fianna Fáil and the subversive threat, 1939-1945’, in Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid and Colin Reid (eds.), From Parnell to Paisley: Constitutional and Revolutionary Politics in Modern Ireland (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2010), pp.116-138.