Ian McBride

Ian McBride is Foster Professor of Irish History at the

. He is a visiting professor of Irish studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Career

McBride earned his BA at

.

In 2012, McBride presented Forgotten Revolutionary: Francis Hutcheson, a one-hour documentary on the philosopher Francis Hutcheson, on BBC2 television.^[3]

Research

McBride's research interests include the history of modern Ireland, intellectual history, the role of memory and commemoration in describing the past, the history of the British Isles in the

and the history of Northern Ireland since 1920.

Selected publications

• "Burke and Ireland", in David Dwan and Christopher Insole (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke (Cambridge, 2013), pp. 181–95.
• "The Shadow of the Gunman: Irish Historians and the IRA", Journal of Contemporary History, 46 (3), pp. 686–710.
• "Catholic Politics in the Penal Era: Father Sylvester Lloyd and the Devlin Address of 1727", Eighteenth-Century Ireland, (2011), pp. 115–47.
• Eighteenth-Century Ireland: The Isle of Slaves. Dublin, Gill & Macmillan, 2009.

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