seanwgannon
2014
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| Areas of expertise | My doctoral research reconstructed and critically examined the history of Irish involvement in the policing of the British Palestine Mandate between 1922 and 1948 to provide the first detailed case-study of Irish involvement in the administration of the British Empire in the post-independence period. As part of this process, it challenged the historiography on a series of related issues such as the policing of the Palestine Mandate; the causes of police brutality in revolutionary Ireland, the Palestine Mandate and wider British Empire; and the influence of the RIC on colonial policing in the twentieth century. My current research explores the more general question of Irish participation in the British imperial project after 1922. Focussing on the Indian Civil Service and the British Colonial Service, it maps recruitment by these services in ‘Southern Ireland’ during this period, evaluates the Irish contribution to the administration of a range of British overseas possessions, and assess the extent to which, if any, their ‘Irishness’ impacted on the personal and professional experience of Irish imperial servants and led to the creation of an distinct Irish-imperial identity. In addition to the history of Ireland and Empire, the British Palestine Mandate, and British colonial policing, my research interests include the fate of the ‘losers’ in the Irish Revolution (particularly the R.I.C. and the Coastguard), police counterinsurgency, Irish foreign policy, Irish-Jewish history, Irish-Israeli relations, and the history of Zionism and the Israeli state. |
| Keywords | Ireland and Empire, Royal Irish Constabulary, Colonial policing, Police counterinsurgency, Irish Revolution, British Palestine Mandate, Zionism, Israel Studies. |
| Nickname | seanwgannon |
| Membership Type | Professional Historian |
| Awards | Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2016-17. |
| Other activities | SEMINARS/CONFERENCES *'”The Old enemy in new garb”: Theological representations of Jews in mid-twentieth-century Ireland (Western Jewish Studies Association, 26th Annual Conference, University of Oklahoma, 27 March 2022). *'”The iron [then] entered his soul”: Constable Thomas Huckerby and the dynamics of police violence in revolutionary Limerick’ (Limerick 1920 Symposium, Limerick Museum online, Nov. 2020). |
| Books | * With Natalie Wynn (eds), The Limerick Boycott in Context (London, Peter Lang, forthcoming 2024) * With Brian Hughes (eds), Histories of Protestant Limerick, 1912-1923 (Limerick, Limerick City & County Council, 2023) https://limericklocalstudies.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/16-Histories-of-Protestant-Limerick.pdf * (ed.) ‘The Inevitable Conflict’: Essays on the Civil War in County Limerick (Limerick, Limerick City & County Council, 2023). https://limericklocalstudies.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/012-The-Inevitable-Conflict-book.pdf *The Irish Imperial Service: Policing Palestine and Administering the Empire, 1922-1966 (Chams, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). |
| Book Chapters | * ‘The old sinister enemies have found a new ally’: The Judaeo-Bolshevik myth in mid-twentieth-century Irish Catholic culture’ in Zuleika Rodgers and Natalie Wynn (eds), Reimagining the Jews of Ireland: Historiography, identity and representation (London, Peter Lang, 2023). * ‘The best and worst of times’: An Irish colonial Christmas’ in Salvador Ryan (ed.), Christmas and the Irish: A miscellany (Dublin, Wordwell, 2023). * ‘Ability and courage of a high order: Rabbi Elias Bernard Levin’ in David Bracken (ed.), Of Limerick saints and seekers (Dublin, Veritas, 2022). *’The Limerick RIC and its enemies: Police victimisation in the shadow of civil war’ in Seán William Gannon (ed.), ‘The inevitable conflict’: Essays on the Civil War in County Limerick (Limerick City & County Council, 2022). *’Southern Irish loyalists and imperial service’ in Brian Hughes & Conor Morrissey (eds), Southern Irish Loyalism, 1912-1949 (Liverpool UP, 2020), pp 155-172. *'”From the Isle of Saints to the Holy Land”: Irish encounters with Zionism in the Palestine Mandate’ in Aidan Beatty & Dan O’Brien (eds), Irish questions and Jewish questions: Crossovers in culture (Syracuse UP, Aug. 2018). * ‘”Black-and-Tan tendencies”: policing insurgency in the Palestine Mandate, 1922-48’ in Brian Hughes and Fergus Hoban (eds), Unconventional warfare from antiquity to the present day (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp 67-88. |
| Peer Reviewed Journals | *'”Irish … but nothing Irish”: The performance of Ireland on the British colonial stage’, Scene, 8 (2020), 135-47. * ‘“Sure it’s only a holiday”: the Irish contingent of the British (Palestine) Gendarmerie, 1922-1926’, Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, 13 (2013), 64-85. |
| Other Journals | *’I accuse …’: District Inspector L.H.P Ibbotson and the Limerick Curfew Murders, Old Limerick Journal, 55 (2020), pp 28-34. * ‘Schools of corruption’: the sources for Sean South’s Antisemitism, Old Limerick Journal, 44 (2010), pp 16-24. |
| Electronic Publications | * ‘Ireland and the word stand appalled’: The Limerick Curfew Murders, 1921 (The Irish Story, 29 Mar. 2021) *’A Fiend in Human Shape’? The Life and Crimes of Thomas D. Huckerby (The Irish Story, 22 Mar. 2022) *Insights from the Archive of the St Patrick’s Society of Shanghai (Irish Diaspora Histories Network, 21 Mar. 2021) *The Limerick Curfew Murders, 1921 (Digital exhibition for Limerick City and County Library Service Decade of Centenaries programme, 2021) *Deconstructing the ‘Dreaded Auxiliaries’ (Irish Humanities Alliance, 2020) *The Royal Irish Constabulary and Colonial Policing: Lessons and Legacies (Century Ireland, 8 Dec. 2020) *’The Green Frame of British Rule?’: The Irish in the Indian Civil Service (The Irish Story, 27 Nov. 2020) *The Spanish Influenza in Limerick, 1918-1919 (Digital exhibition for Limerick City and County Library Service Decade of Centenaries programme, 2020) *The Police in Revolutionary Limerick, 1919-1922 (Digital exhibition for Limerick City and County Library Service Decade of Centenaries programme, 2020) *Revisiting the ‘Limerick Pogrom’ of 1904 (The Irish Story, 5 July 2020) *Henry Hugh Tudor – His Life and Times (The Irish Story, 16 Apr. 2020). *The Black and Tans in Palestine: Irish Connections to the Palestine Police, 1922-1948 (The Irish Story, 20 Feb. 2020). *The Black and Tans and Auxiliaries: An Overview (The Irish Story, 13 Jan. 2020) *Ireland’s Imperial Elites (Dublin Review of Books, no. 116, Nov. 2019) *‘Had we Englishmen in their places …’: Sir Michael O’Dwyer and Amritsar (Irish Diaspora Histories Network, Mar. 2019) *‘Hybridized Britons’ or ‘irredeemably Irish’? Irish-imperial identities in the twentieth century (Irish Diaspora Histories Network, Nov. 2018) https://irishdiasporahistory.wordpress.com/2018/11/05/hybridized-britons-or-irredeemably-irish-irish-imperial-identities-in-the-twentieth-century/) |
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