Ph.D. (Leeds)
Professor and Acting Head of Department (with Professor Colm Lennon)
from 1 February 2010

Room 49
Rhetoric House
South Campus

Tel: (01) 708 3759
Email: jacqueline.hill@nuim.ie

Teaching

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Profile

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Research

• 'The language and symbolism of conquest in Ireland, c. 1790-1850', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, xviii (2008) (forthcoming)
• 'The 1847 general election in Dublin city', in ed. A. Blackstock & E. Magennis, Politics and political culture in Britain and Ireland, 1750-1850: essays in tribute to Peter Jupp (Ulster Historical Foundation, Belfast, 2007), pp 41-64.
• 'Making sense of mixed descent: English and Irish genealogy in the memoirs of an Irish loyalist, Ambrose Hardinge Giffard (1771-1827)', in ed. R. Whelan and B.Tribout, Narrating the Self, (Peter Lang, European Connections series, Bern, 2007), 277-92
• '"Allegories, fictions, and feigned representations": decoding the money bill dispute, 1752-56 ', Eighteenth-Century Ireland, xxi (2006), pp 66-88
• Principal Investigator for Irish History Online (www.irishhistoryonline.ie) 2004-. This IRCHSS-funded project currently contains over 65,000 fully searchable items covering all periods of Irish history.  Since 2004 it has represented the Irish component of the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History (www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/bibwel.asp).  A second phase of funding (2006-9) has been awarded to enhance IHO's coverage of publications on the Irish abroad, and works published outside Ireland and Britain.

Publications

Monographs

From patriots to unionists: Dublin civic politics and Irish Protestant patriotism, 1660-1840 (Oxford University Press, 1997), pp xix,

Articles

• 'The language and symbolism of conquest in Ireland, c. 1790-1850', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, xviii (2008) (forthcoming
• '"Allegories, fictions, and feigned representations": decoding the money bill dispute, 1752-56 ', Eighteenth-Century Ireland, xxi (2006), pp 66-88
• Convergence and conflict in eighteenth-century Ireland’, Historical Journal, xliv, no. 4 (December 2001), 1039-1063
• 'Irish identities before and after the Union’, Radharc, ii (2001), 51-73
• ‘Religious toleration and the relaxation of the penal laws: an imperial perspective’,   Archivium Hibernicum, xliv (1989), 98-109
• ‘Popery and Protestantism, civil and religious liberty: the disputed lessons of Irish history, 1690-1812’, Past & Present, no. 118 (1988), 96-129
• National festivals, the state, and “Protestant ascendancy” in Ireland’, Irish Historical Studies, xxiv (1984), 30-51
• ‘The politics of privilege: Dublin corporation and the Catholic question, 1792-1823’, Maynooth Review, vii (1982), 17-36
• Artisans, sectarianism and politics in Dublin, 1829-1848’, Saothar, vii (1981), 12-27
• ‘The intelligentsia and Irish nationalism in the 1840s’, Studia Hibernica, no. 20(1980), 73-109
• ‘Nationalism and the Catholic church in the 1840s: views of Dublin Repealers’, Irish Historical Studies, xix (1975), 371-95

Editions of texts

• with Cormac Ó Grada), ‘The visitation of God’?: The potato and the great Irish famine, by P.M.A. Bourke (Lilliput Press, Dublin, 1993), pp x, 230

Edited books

• A New History of Ireland vii: Ireland 1921-1984 (Oxford University Press, 2003), pp lxxxiii, 1057
• (with Colm Lennon), Luxury and austerity (Historical Studies, XXI) U.C.D. Press, 1999, pp xiii, 242
• (with R.V. Comerford, M. Cullen, C. Lennon), Religion, conflict, and coexistence in Ireland: Essays presented to Monsignor P. J. Corish (Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1990), pp v, 360

Essays in books

• 'The 1847 general election in Dublin city', in ed. A. Blackstock & E. Magennis, Politics and political culture in Britain and Ireland, 1750-1850: essays in tribute to Peter Jupp (Ulster Historical Foundation, Belfast, 2007), pp 41-64.
• 'Making sense of mixed descent: English and Irish genealogy in the memoirs of an Irish loyalist, Ambrose Hardinge Giffard (1771-1827)', in ed. R. Whelan and B.Tribout, Narrating the Self, (Peter Lang, European Connections series, Bern, 2007), 277-92
• ‘Dublin after the Union: the age of the Ultra-Protestants, 1801-22’, in The Irish Act of Union: bicentenary essays,  ed. M. Brown et al. (Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 2003), 144-56
• ‘The debate on the Act of Union between Ireland and Great Britain: a perspective from poetry’, Joseph Keene Chadwick: interventions and continuities in Irish and Gay studies, ed. J. O’Mealy, V. Wayne (University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 2002), 71-83
• ‘The Church of Ireland laity and the public sphere, 1740-1869’, in The laity and the Church of Ireland, ed. R. Gillespie and W. Neely (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2002), 152-69
• ‘Politics and the writing of history: the impact of the 1690s and 1790s on Irish historiography’, in Political discourse in seventeenth and eighteenth-century  Ireland, ed. D. G. Boyce et. al (Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2001), 222-39
• ‘The shaping of Dublin government in the long eighteenth century’, in Two capitals: London and Dublin 1500-1840 (O.U.P. for the British Academy, Oxford, 2001), 149-65
• ‘Corporatist ideology and practice in Ireland, 1660-1800’, in Political ideas in eighteenth-century Ireland, ed. S. J. Connolly (Four Courts, Dublin, 2000), 64-82
• ‘Dublin corporation, Protestant dissent, and politics, 1660-1800’, in The politics of Irish dissent, ed. K. Herlihy (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 1997), 28-39
• ‘Biblical language and providential destiny in mid-eighteenth-century Irish Protestant patriotism’, in Religion and rebellion, Historical Studies XX (U.C.D. Press, 1997), 71-83
• ‘Ireland without Union: Molyneux and his legacy’, in A union for empire: the union of 1707 in the history of British political thought, ed. J. Robertson  (Cambridge University Press, 1995), 271-96
• ‘Corporate values in Hanoverian Edinburgh and Dublin’, in Conflict, identity and economic development: Ireland and Scotland, 1600-1939, ed. R. Houston and R. Morris (Carnegie Publishing, Preston, 1995), 114-24
• '1641 and the quest for Catholic emancipation’, 1691-1829’, in Ulster 1641: aspects of the rising, ed. B. Mac Cuarta (Institute of Irish Studies, Belfast, 1993), 159-71
• ‘The politics of Dublin corporation, 1760-1792’, in The United Irishmen, ed. D. Dickson et al. (Lilliput Press, Dublin, 1993), 88-101
• ‘The legal profession and the defence of the ancien regime in Ireland, 1790-1840’, in Brehons, serjeants and attornies: studies in the history of the Irish legal profession, ed. D. Hogan and N. Osborough (Irish Academic Press, 1990), 181-200
• ‘The meaning and significance of “Protestant ascendancy”, 1787-1840’, in Ireland after the Union (Proceedings, 2nd joint meeting of the R.I.A. and the British Academy), (O.U.P., 1989), 1-22
• ‘Religion, trade and politics in Dublin, 1798-1848’, in Cities and merchants 1500-1900, ed. L. Cullen and P. Butel (Trinity College, Dublin, 1986), 247-59
• 'The Protestant response to Repeal: the case of the Dublin working class’, in Ireland under the union, ed. F.S.L. Lyons & R. Hawkins (O.U.P., Oxford,  1980), 35-68

Other publications

• 'Mayors and lord mayors of Dublin', in ed. T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin & F. J. Byrne, A New History of Ireland ix: Maps, genealogies, lists (Oxford University Press, 1984), 547-64
• 'Protestant ascendancy, decline, 1800-1930', in James S. Donnelly (ed.), Encylopedia of Irish history and culture, 2 vols (Thomson Gale, Farmington Hills, 2004), ii, 586-88.