In July 2022, I retired from my position as Associate Lecturer in History with the Open University in Ireland. In my career with the Open University, I have taught modules on Modern European History, European Imperialism and International relations. I am a graduate of University College Dublin and earned my PhD at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1995.
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Areas of expertise
I have a research interest in the Irish Experience in America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with a particular focus on the development of Irish American Nationalism.
Keywords
Irish emigration, Irish diaspora, Irish-American nationalism, Modern Europe.
Member Details
Nickname
Michael Doorley
Membership Type
Professional Historian
Experience
Education
BA: University College Dublin, 1983
Higher Diploma in Adult and Community Education: St. Patrick’s College Maynooth, 1985
MA in History: University of New Orleans/Louisiana State University, 1987
PhD: University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995
Employment
Associate Lecturer, Open University, 1994-2022. I retired from the Open University in July 2022.
Consultancy work
In academic year 2013-2014, I worked as a consultant in developing the new Open University International Relations course DD313, International Relations: Continuity and Change in Global Politics. This course was launched in October 2014.
For three years, from 2017 to 2020, I served as an external examiner for the Dublin Business School, where I monitored lecturer’s feedback and examination marking on a variety of humanities and social science modules. I also assisted colleagues at Dublin City University as they prepared work for publication on the Climate Change issue.
Teaching
In my career with the Open University, I have taught on both social science and humanities subjects. These included courses on political science, British, European, and American history as well as thematic modules devoted to the history of European empires, European integration, revolutions and international relations.
Outreach activities
My work with the Open University involved assisting in the development of new modules in the Social Science and Humanities areas. In 2006, I compiled a set of online ‘Irish materials’ to enable Open University students in Ireland to link the concepts and theories in a British focused foundation social science module to Irish events and developments. I have also assisted in Open University educational provision to prisoners on the island of Ireland.
Committees & Associations
American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS)
Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland
Awards
PhD Dissertation won the Schelbert Dissertation Award, April 1997
PhD Dissertation awarded a publication grant by the Cushwa Centre at the University of Notre Dame, January 1998.
Awarded a Hibernian Research Award in 2017 by The Cushwa Centre at the University of Notre Dame to aid publication of biography of: Justice Daniel Cohalan, 1865-1946, Cork University Press, 2019. Â
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Publications
Books
Irish American Diaspora Nationalism: The Friends of Irish Freedom, 1916-1935, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2005. Justice Daniel Cohalan, 1865-1946: American patriot and Irish-American nationalist, Cork University Press, Cork, 2019.
Book Chapters
‘The Gaelic American and the shaping of Irish-American Opinion, 1903-1914’ in Probing the Past: Festschrift in Honour of Leo Schelbert. Edited by Wendy Everham, (Peter Lang, New York. 2015).
‘Daniel Cohalan and American Involvement in the 1916 Rising’, in Ireland’s Allies: America and the 1916 Rising. Edited by Miriam Nyhan. (UCD Press, Dublin 2016).
‘The Friends of Irish Freedom and the Irish Revolution’, in: The Atlas of the Irish Revolution, eds, J. Crowley, D. O’Drisceoil and M. Murphy, (Cork University Press. Cork, 2017).
‘The Gaelic American 1912-1922: A Case Study in Irish American Transnational Journalism’, in Politics, Culture, and The Irish American Press, 1784-1963, eds, D. Reddin van Tuyll, M. O’Brien and M. Broersma (Syracuse University Press, New York, 2021).
‘The Gaelic American, 1921-8: reporting on the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the Irish Free State’, in Navigating Historical Crosscurrents in the Irish Atlantic, Essays for Catherine B. Shannon, ed. Mary C. Kelly (Cork University Press, Cork, 2022).
Peer Reviewed Journals
‘Irish Catholics and French Creoles: Ethnic Struggles within the Catholic Church in New Orleans, 1835-1920,’ Catholic Historical Review, January, 2001
‘Judge Daniel Cohalan: A Nationalist Crusader against British Influence in American Life’, New Hibernia Review, Volume 19, No.2. Summer 2015,
Other Journals
‘The Friends of Irish Freedom: A case study in Irish-American nationalism, 1916-21’, History Ireland, Vol.16, No. 2, March/April 2008.
‘The Judge’ versus ‘The Chief’ –Daniel Cohalan and the 1920 Split within Irish America. History Ireland, Vol. 23, No.2, March/April 2015
‘Irish American Diaspora Nationalism and the Foundation of the Friends of Irish Freedom’, in The Recorder: The Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, Vol. 18, Nos. 1&2, Fall 2005.
Electronic Publications
‘The Friends of Irish
Freedom and the Irish Race Convention’ (online), on Century Ireland RTE/Boston
College platform.
October 2019: Online Exhibition, ‘The life and Times of Justice Daniel Cohalan’. Created in partnership with St. Joseph’s College Long Island, NY and the Robert DL Gardiner Foundation, New York. The release of this exhibition in October 2019 coincided with a number of talks on my book on Judge Cohalan in the New York area. Venues included the St. Joseph’s College Campus in Long Island and Brooklyn and the Brooklyn Historical Society, Â
On permanent online display in Dun Laoghaire Library from November 6th 2019.
Review article on John M. Hearne and Rory T. Cornish (eds), Thomas Francis Meagher: The Making of an Irish American in The Recorder: The Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, Volume 18, No.1, Summer 2006.
Review article on Francis Carroll, America and the Making of an Independent Ireland (New York, New York University Press, 2021) in The English Historical Review, 11 December 2023.
