Marianne Elliott (historian)
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Marianne Elliott .
Career
Elliott was born on 25 May 1948 in Raholp, County Down, Northern Ireland, brought up in Belfast, and educated at Dominican College, Fortwilliam, Queen's University Belfast, and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.[citation needed]
She lectured in History at
She has written extensively on Irish history, receiving many awards for her work. Particularly notable publications include her biography of Wolfe Tone (1989), and more recently Catholics of Ulster: A History (2000) and a biography of Robert Emmet (2003). Her research interests are political and cultural history, religious identities, eighteenth-century Ireland and France and the history of Ulster.
In 2005, she delivered the
Other activities
In addition to her academic career, Elliott has played an important part in the
She was married to the geologist Trevor Elliott until his death in 2013.[4]
Books
- Partners in revolution : the United Irishmen and France. New Haven : Yale University Press. 1982
- Wolfe Tone : prophet of Irish independence. New Haven : Yale University Press. 1989
- The Catholics of Ulster: a history. London : Allen Lane The Penguin Press. 2000.
- Editor The long road to peace in Northern Ireland : peace lectures from the Institute of Irish Studies at Liverpool University. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press. 2001
- Robert Emmet : the making of a legend. London : Profile. 2003
- When God Took Sides. Religion and Identity in Ireland : Unfinished History. Oxford : Oxford University Press. 2009
- Hearthlands: A memoir of the White City housing estate in Belfast Blackstaff Press 2017
Honours and awards
In 1983 Elliott received the Leo Gershoy Award of the American Historical Association.[5]
In October 2000 she was awarded an
In 2002 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
In 2017, Trinity College Dublin awarded her with an honorary doctorate.[6] In the same year, she became a member of the Royal Irish Academy.[7]
In April 2018 she was awarded a special prize by the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize judges "for advancing understanding of Irish history in Britain".[8]
References
- ^ "Weekend birthdays". The Guardian. 24 May 2014. p. 58.
- ^ Marianne Elliott on the Ford Lectures Archived 21 December 2005 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Marianne Elliott" (PDF). bbk.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
- ^ Reisz, Matthew (7 March 2013). "Trevor Elliott, 1949-2013 Times Higher Education (THE)". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
- ^ "Leo Gershoy Award Recipients". American Historical Association. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
- ^ "Registrar : Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Ireland". www.tcd.ie. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
- ^ "18 New Members of the Royal Irish Academy". Royal Irish Academy. 26 May 2017. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
- ^ The 2015 – 2017 Prize