Donal O Drisceoil

Donal has lectured in History at UCC since the late 1990s. He has published widely in the broad area of modern Irish history. His commitment to public history is evident across his articles in the print media and on prominent on-line platforms like RTE.ie; his lectures and talks to community and local history groups; his contributions to radio and television documentaries; and his consultative role in a couple of major historically-themed feature films. Local history also features strongly in his teaching and publishing, and he has co-authored several books on Cork institutions and businesses. He has a long and continuing involvement in Irish labour and working-class history. Media history, and particularly the history of censorship, is his other main area of interest.

•Irish Media History

•Irish Political History

•History of the Irish Revolution

•Irish Labour History

•Cork Local History

•Censorship in 20th Century Ireland

Teaching Interests

Irish Media History;

History of the Irish revolution;

Irish Historical Debate;

Irish Radical Politics;

Cork Local History;

Censorship.

Modules Co-ordinated:

HI 1002 The Making of Modern Ireland: Culture, Politics and Society;

HI 3128 Censorship in Twentieth-Century Ireland;

HI 6030 Perspectives on Cork Local History;

HI 6031 Local History Research: Sources and methods;

HI 6083 Radicalism, Dissent and the Print Media in Modern Ireland.

Current PhD Supervision:

John O'Donovan, 'The All-For-Ireland league, 1890-1918: Conference, Conciliation and Consent in Context'

Marita Foster, 'The History of Cove/Queenstown/Cobh and the Great Island,1800-1921'

Sean Kearney, 'Catholicism and right-wing movements in mid-twentieth century Ireland'

Year: 2005 Name: Siobhan Jones Intitution: NUI (UCC) Degree: PHD Thesis: ‘The Southern Irish Unionist Press, 1860-1960’

Year: 2009 Name: Helene O’Keeffe Intitution: NUI (UCC) Degree: PHD Thesis: ‘ ‘A Lively Poltergeist’: Robert Emmet – Commemoration, Memory and Tradition, 1878-2003’

Year: 2009 Name: Donal Corcoran Intitution: NUI (UCC) Degree: PHD Thesis: ‘The Irish Free State, 1922-32: Government and Administration’

Year: 2010 Name: Fiona Devoy Intitution: NUI (UCC) Degree: PHD Thesis: ‘ ‘ A Sword of Damocles’: the threat of conscription and the dynamics of Irish politics, 1914-18’

Year: 2010 Name: Sarah-Anne Buckley Intitution: NUI (UCC) Degree: PHD Thesis: ‘Protecting ‘the family cell’? Child Welfare, the NSPCC and the State in Ireland, 1880-1944’

Year: 2012 Name: David Convery Intitution: NUI (UCC) Degree: PHD Thesis: ‘Brigadistas: The history and memory of Irish anti-fascists in the Spanish Civil War’

Year: 2013 Name: Daniel Finn Intitution: NUI (UCC) Degree: PHD Thesis: Challengers to Provisional Republicanism: The Official Republican Movement, People’s Democracy and the Irish Republican Socialist Party, 1968-1998

Year: 2016 Name: Liam Cullinane Intitution: NUI (UCC) Degree: PHD Thesis: Work, Class and Conflict: A Comparative Study of Three Cork Factories Incorporating Oral Testimony

Year: 2018 Name: Alan McCarthy Intitution: NUI (UCC) Degree: PHD Thesis: Press, Politics and Revolution: Newspapers and Journalism in Cork City and County, 1910-23

Year: 2018 Name: Luke Dineen Intitution: NUI (UCC) Degree: PHD Thesis: Strikes, Syndicalism and Soviets: A Comparative Study of the Labour Movements in Cork and Derry, 1917-24

Year: 2021 Name: Elaine Sugrue Intitution: NUI (UCC) Degree: PHD Thesis: Women and Trade Unions in Ireland, c. 1880-1937: class, gender and society

Year: 2024 Name: Oliver O'Hanlon Intitution: NUI (UCC) Degree: PHD Thesis: 'As Others Saw Us: The French grand reporter on the island of Ireland in the 20th century'

Project: ACE Funding Post Doc. ( R20346) Funding Body: Miscellaneous Non Exchequer Start/End Dates: 01-JUN-21 / 31-MAY-22 Award: €45,986.00