Roisín Higgins
EDUCATION
MA (Hons) Modern History, University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Ph D Modern History, University of St Andrews, Scotland.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Having completed a PhD on the radical nonconformist newspaper the British Weekly I got my first lectureship in Economic and Social history at the University of Manchester and then moved to lecture at the University of Edinburgh. On returning to Ireland I worked in University College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast before moving to Boston College-Ireland.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research interests are concerned with the way in which forms of social and cultural association (such as print, commemorative practices and sport) impact on politics, culture and identity.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Transforming 1916: meaning, memory and the fiftieth anniversary of the Easter Rising. Cork: Cork University Press, March, 2012.
With Mike Cronin, Places We Play: Ireland’s Sporting Heritage, Cork: The Collins Press, 2011.
With Regina Uí Chollatáin, (eds.) The Life and After-Life of P.H. Pearse/ Pádraic Mac Piarais: Saol agus Oidhreacht. Dublin : Irish Academic Press, 2009.
Articles and Chapters:
‘The Nation Reading Rooms’ in J. Murphy (ed.), The History of the Irish Book, Vol. IV: The Irish Book in English 1800-1891, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp 262-273.
‘The changing fortunes of national myths: commemorating Anzac Day and the Easter Rising,’ in K. Holmes and S. Ward (eds.), Exhuming Passions: the pressure of the past in Ireland and Australia, Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011. (Also published by University of New South Wales Press, Sydney), pp 145-162.
‘The Irish Sporting Heritage Project’, History Ireland, Nov/Dec, 2009, pp 8-9.
‘Remembering and Forgetting P.H.Pearse’ In: R. Higgins and R. Uí Chollatáin, (eds.). The Life and After-Life of P.H. Pearse. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, pp 123-38.
‘Projections and Reflections: Irishness and the fiftieth anniversary of the Easter Rising’. Eire-Ireland, Autumn/Winter 2007, (42: 3/4): 11-34.
‘Sites of Memory and Memorial’ In: M.E. Daly and M O’Callaghan (eds.). 1916 in 1966: commemorating the Easter Rising. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2007, pp. 272-302.
‘I am the narrator over and above…the caller up of the dead: pageant and drama in 1966′ In: M.E. Daly and M O’Callaghan (eds.). 1916 in 1966: commemorating the Easter Rising. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2007, pp 148-172.
‘William Robertson Nicoll’, Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism. The British Library, Academia Press of Ghent, and ProQuest, 2007.
With Carole Holohan and Catherine O’Donnell, ’1966 and all that: the fiftieth anniversary commemoration’ History Ireland. March/April, 2006, pp 31-6.
‘The Constant Reality Running through our Lives: Commemorating Easter 1916′ In: P. Crotty, L. Harte and Y. Whelan (eds.). Ireland: Space, Text, Time, Dublin: Liffey Press, 2005, pp 45-56.
‘Creating New Forms: Civil Society in Northern Ireland’ In: R. J. Morris and L. Kennedy (eds.). Order and Dis-order: Ireland and Scotland, 1500-2000. Edinburgh: John Donald, 2005, pp. 101-112.
‘Review Essay: A Drift of Chosen Females: The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Vols. 4 and 5′. Irish University Review, Autumn/Winter, 2003, (33: 2), pp. 400-6.
No Place Like Home, Belfast: Tinderbox, 2001.
COLLABORATIONS
Dublin City Library: Advisor to the newly established Dublin City Sports Archive.
Ireland and Australia Bi-lateral Research Group on ‘Memory and the uses of the past’. This is funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Australian Academies of the Humanities and Social Sciences. A symposium and workshops were held in Sydney, Canberra, Dublin and Belfast involving Irish and Australian scholars in 2009 and 2010.
