James S. Donnelly, Jr.

James S. Donnelly, Jr. (born 1943) is a modern British and Irish historian. Donnelly is a Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. One of the most prolific and wide-ranging historians of Ireland, he has also been a leading figure in the promotion of Irish studies in North America. Donnelly is a former president of the American Conference for Irish Studies, and a current co-editor of the journal Éire-Ireland.

He is the author of:

• Captain Rock: The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821-1824. (2009).
• Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture. (2004). editor and chief.
• The Great Irish Potato Famine. (2001).
• Irish Popular Culture 1650-1850. (1999), co-edited with Kerby A. Miller.
• Irish Peasants: Violence & Political Unrest, 1780-1914. (1983), co-edited with Samuel Clark.
• The Land and the People of Nineteenth-Century Cork: The Rural Economy and Land Question. 1975 (which was awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association)
• Landlord and Tenant in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. (1973).
• "Captain Rock: Ideology and Organization in the Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821-24." Éire-Ireland 2007 42(3-4): 60-103
• "Captain Rock: The Origins of the Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821-24." New Hibernia Review 2007 11(4): 47-72.
• "Opposing the "Modern World": The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Ireland, 1965-85." Éire-Ireland 2005 40(1-2): 183-245.
• "A Church in Crisis: The Irish Catholic Church Today." History Ireland 2000 8(3): 12-17.
• "The Construction of the Memory of the Famine in Ireland and the Irish Diaspora, 1850-1900." Éire-Ireland 1996 31(1-2): 26-61.
• "'Irish Property Must Pay for Irish Poverty': British Public Opinion and the Great Irish Famine" in "Fearful Realities": New Perspectives on the Famine. Christopher Morash and Richard Hayes, eds. (1996).
• "Mass Eviction and the Great Famine: the Clearances Revisited" in The Great Irish Famine. Cathal Póirtéir, ed. (1995).
• "The Terry Alt Movement 1829-31." History Ireland 1994 2(4): 30-35.
• "The Great Famine: Its Interpreters, Old and New." History Ireland 1993 1(3): 27-33
• "The Marian Shrine of Knock: The First Decade." Éire-Ireland 1993 28(2): 54-99.
• "The Land Question in Nationalist Politics." In Perspectives on Irish Nationalism. Ed. Thomas E. Hachey and Lawrence J. McCaffrey.
• "Republicanism and Reaction in the 1790s." Irish Economic and Social History [Great Britain] 1984 11: 94-100.
• "Hearts of Oak, Hearts of Steel." Studia Hibernica 1981 21: 7-73.
• "Propagating the Cause of the United Irishmen." Studies [Ireland] 1980 69(273): 5-23.
• "The Rightboy Movement", Studia Hibernica 1977-78 17-18: 120-202.
• "The Whiteboy Movement, 1761-65." Irish Historical Studies 1978 21(81): 20-54.
• "The Irish Agricultural Depression of 1859-64." Irish Economic and Social History Journal 1976 3: 33-54.
• "Cork Market: Its Role in the Nineteenth-Century Irish Butter Trade." Studia Hibernica 1971 11: 130-163.

References

• Article on James S. Donnelly Jr. in the Irish American Post, June 2001, Vol. 2, Issue 1 [1]
• Article "Professor Discusses Irish Potato Famine at CIS Lecture." In The Current Online the University of Missouri-St. Louis Student Newspaper. Nov. 2004. [2]