History Department Faculty
Guy Beiner
Professor, Sullivan Chair in Irish Studies
Guy Beiner
Ph.D.
Contact
Connolly House 211
Telephone: 617-552-3793
Email: guy.beiner@bc.edu
Education
- Ph.D., University College Dublin
Research Interests
Modern Europe; cultural and social history; the long nineteenth century; Irish studies; memory studies; oral history and folk traditions; pandemics
Department
Biography
Guy Beiner is the Sullivan Chair in Irish Studies. He teaches courses on eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century Irish history as well as more general topics in late-modern history. He specializes in the historical study of remembering and forgetting. Other interests include oral history, folklore, public history and heritage, historiography, terrorism, the fin de si猫cle, and the 鈥楽panish鈥� Influenza pandemic. His books on history, memory and forgetting in Ireland have won multiple international awards.
He was a professor of modern history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and has held research fellowships at Trinity College Dublin, University of Notre Dame, Central European University, University of Oxford, as well being a former Burns Scholar at md传媒国产剧 College. He is co-editor, with Oona Frawley and Ray Cashman, of the Indiana University Press series Irish Culture, Memory, Place.
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REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Books
(Oxford University Press, 2022)
(Oxford University Press, 2018)
Awarded Irish Historical Research Prize (National University of Ireland); Katherine Briggs Folklore Award (Folklore Society, UK); George L. Mosse Prize in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since 1500 (American Historical Association); Wayland D. Hand Prize for history and folklore (American Folklore Society). Shortlisted for the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize; Honorable Mention for the James S. Donnelly, Sr.; selected as a Times Literary Supplement book of the year.
(University of Wisconsin Press, 2007)
Awarded Ratcliff Prize (Michaelis-Jena Ratcliff Prize Trust) for an important contribution to the study of folklore and folk life in Great Britain and Ireland鈥�; Wayland D. Hand Prize for history and folklore (American Folklore Society). Listed for the Cundill History Prize; finalist for the National Council of Public History Book Award.
Select Chapter/Articles
鈥淩eligion and Memory in Modern Ireland鈥� in Gladys Ganiel and Andrew R. Holmes (eds.),听The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Modern Ireland听(Oxford University Press, 2024), 542-60.
鈥淩acializing Irish Historical Consciousness鈥� in Malcolm Sen and Julie McCormick Weng (eds.),听Race in Irish Literature and Culture听(Cambridge University Press, 2024), 42-58 (with Oded Y. Steinberg).
鈥淩emembering to Forget: Heaney and 1798 Revisited鈥�,听脡颈谤别-滨谤别濒补苍诲, 58:1-2 (2023), 51-76.
鈥淚rish Historical Studies Avant La Lettre: The Antiquarian Genealogy of Interdisciplinary Scholarship鈥� in Ren茅e Allyson Fox, Mike Cronin and Brian 脫 Conchubhair (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Irish Studies (Routledge, 2021), 47-58.
鈥淲hen Monuments Fall: The Significance of Decommemorating鈥�,听脡颈谤别-滨谤别濒补苍诲, 56:1 (2021), 33-61.
鈥淎 Short History of Irish Memory in the Long Twentieth Century鈥� in Thomas Bartlett (ed.), The Cambridge History of Ireland, vol. 4 (Cambridge University Press, 2018), 693-710.
鈥淚rish Studies and the Dynamics of Disremembering鈥� in Margue虂rite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack and Ruud van den Beuken (eds.), Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory: Transitions and Transformation (Peter Lang, 2017), 297-321.
鈥淭he Formation of Modern Irish Memory, c.1740鈥�1914鈥� in Eugenio F. Biagini and Mary E. Daly (eds.), The Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 586-93.
鈥淧robing the Boundaries of Irish Memory: From Postmemory to Prememory and Back鈥�, Irish Historical Studies, 39:154 (2014), 296-307.
鈥淔enianism and the Martyrdom-Terrorism Nexus in Ireland before Independence鈥� in D. Janes and A. Houen (eds.), Martyrdom and Terrorism: Pre-Modern to Contemporary Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2014), 199-220.
鈥淩ecycling Irish Popular Culture鈥� in M茅abh N铆 Fhuarth谩in and David M. Doyle (eds.), Ordinary Irish Life: Music, Sport and Culture (Irish Academic Press, 2013), 5-20.
鈥淭he Mystery of the Cannon Chains: Remembrance in the Irish Countryside鈥�, History Workshop Journal, 66 (2008), 81-106.
鈥淏etween Trauma and Triumphalism: The Easter Rising, the Somme, and the Crux of Deep Memory in Modern Ireland鈥�, Journal of British Studies, 46: 2 (2007), 366-389.