Dr Paul O'Leary


BA, PhD (Wales) Photograph of Dr Paul O'Leary.

Contact

Email: ppo@aber.ac.uk
Office: B19
Phone: 2842

Teaching Areas

Dr O'Leary teaches widely from the First Year Welsh History core modules through to Masters courses and PhD supervision, including Dissertations and a Special Subject on the Irish in Britain.

Biography

Dr Paul O'Leary  BA, PhD (Wales) is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.  He is a specialist in the history of 19th-century Wales, especially its political cultures, and of Irish migration to Britain.  He has also written on the social history of the Welsh language.  He is the author of  Immigration and Integration: the Irish in Wales, 1798-1922  (2000), co-author of  Wales One Hundred Years Ago  (1999), co-editor (with Neil Evans and Charlotte Williams),  A Tolerant Nation? Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Wales (Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2003), co-author with Neil Evans and Charlotte Williams,  'Race, Nation and Globalization'in Paul O'Leary, Neil Evans and Charlotte Williams (eds),  A Tolerant Nation? Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Wales  (Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2003), co-author with Neil Evans,  'Playing the Game: Sport and Ethnic Minorities in Modern Wales'  in Paul O'Leary, Neil Evans and Charlotte Williams (eds),  A Tolerant Nation? Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Wales  (Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2003), editor  Irish Migrants in Modern Wales(Liverpool; Liverpool University Press, 2004) and a former editor of  Llafur,   the Journal of the Society for Welsh Labour History  (1994-2000).  He is currently researching a book on the political cultures of Victorian Wales.

Staff Publications

2007

  • 'Networking Respectability: Class, Gender and Ethnicity among the Irish in South Wales, 1845-1914' in Enda Delaney and Donald M. MacRaild (eds), Irish Migration, Networks and Ethnic Identities since 1750 (London, Routledge; August 2007).
  • 'Arming the Citizens: The Volunteer Movement in Nineteenth-Century Wales' in Matthew Cragoe and Chris Williams (eds), Wales at War: Society, Politics and Religion in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Cardiff, University of Wales Press; 2007), pp. 63-81.
  • 'Wales, 1798-1914' in John Merriman and Jay Winter (eds), Encyclopedia of Europe,
    1798-1914 (New York, Charles Scribner's and Sons; 2007).

2006

  • 'Brithwaith o Ddiwylliannau: Lleiafrifoedd Ethnig yn Hanes Cymru Fodern' yn Geraint H. Jenkins (ed.), Cof Cenedl XXI (Llandysul, Gomer Press, 2006), pp. 95-128.
    ['A Patchwork of Cultures: Ethnic Minorities in Modern Welsh History']
  • ' 'All the trappings of a Great State Occasion': The Ceremonial Opening of the Senedd', Planet: the Welsh Internationalist, 179 (Oct.-Nov. 2006), 30-7 (with Neil Evans).

2005

  • Reprint of: My Struggle for Life by Joseph Keating [1916], (University College Dublin Press, 'Classics in Irish History' series, Dublin, 2005), 308pp. New edition with a critical 'Introduction'.
  • 'When Was Anti-Catholicism? The Case of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Wales,' Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 56, No. 2 (April 2005), pp. 307-25.
  • 'Networking Respectability: Class, Gender and Ethnicity among the Irish in South Wales, 1845-1914', Immigrants and Minorities, Volume 23, Nos 2/3 (2005), 255-75.

2004

  • 'Historians and the New British History' in Peter Lambert and Phillipp Schofield (eds.), Making History: An Introduction to the History and Practices of a Discipline (London, Routledge, 2004), pp. 215-26.
  • 'Masculine Histories: Gender and the Social History of Modern Wales', Welsh History Review, Vol. 22, No. 2 (2004), 56-81.
  • 'A Tolerant Nation? Anti-Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Wales', in R. R. Davies and Geraint H. Jenkins (eds), From Medieval to Modern Wales: Historical Essays in Honour of Kenneth O. Morgan and Ralph A. Griffiths (Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2004), pp. 197-213.
  • Irish Migrants in Modern Wales (Liverpool, Liverpool University Press; 2004), editor.
  • 'The Cult of Respectability and Irish Migrants in South Wales' in Paul O'Leary (ed.), Irish Migrants in Modern Wales (Liverpool, Liverpool University Press; 2004), pp. 119-38.
  • 'Introduction: Towards Integration: the Irish in Modern Wales' in Paul O'Leary (ed.), Irish Migrants in Modern Wales (Liverpool, Liverpool University Press; 2004), pp. 1-8.
  • The Encyclopedia of Ireland, ed. Brian Lalor (Dublin, Gill & Macmillan, 2004), contributor.

2003

  • 'Skill and the Workplace in an Industrial Economy: the Irish in South Wales' in John Belchem and Klaus Tenfelde (eds.), Polish and Irish Migration in Comparative Perspective (Essen, Klartext, 2003), pp. 57-68.
  • A Tolerant Nation? Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Wales (Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2003), co-editor.
  • 'Introduction: Race, Nation and Globalisation' (with Neil Evans and Charlotte Williams) in A Tolerant Nation? Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Wales (eds.), Neil Evans, Paul O'Leary and Charlotte Williams (Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2003), pp. 1-13.
  • 'Playing the Game: Sport and Ethnic Minorities in Modern Wales' (with Neil Evans) in A Tolerant Nation? Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Wales, (eds.), Neil Evans, Paul O'Leary and Charlotte Williams (Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2003), pp. 109-24.

2002

  • 'Offeiriaid Llydewig a'r Ymgais i Efengylu'r Cymry', Y Cylchgrawn Catholig, XIV (2002), 39-44.
    ['Breton Priests and the Attempt to Evangelise the Welsh']

2000

  • Immigration and Integration: the Irish in Wales, 1798-1922 (Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2000), 340pp.
  • 'The Languages of Patriotism in Wales, 1840-80' in Geraint H. Jenkins (ed.), The Welsh Language and Social Domains in the Nineteenth Century, 1801-1911 (Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2000), pp. 533-60.
  • 'The Great Famine and After: Irish Migration to Britain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries', Reviews in History, on-line journal of the Institute of Historical Research's School of Advanced Study, May 2000. http://www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/reviews/.

1999

  • Wales of One Hundred Years Ago, co-author R. Iestyn Hughes, (Sutton Publishing, 1999).
  • 'A Regional Perspective: the Famine Irish in South Wales' in Roger Swift and Sheridan Gilley (eds.), The Irish in Victorian Britain (Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1999), pp.14-28.
  • 'Ieithoedd Gwladgarwch yng Nghymru, 1840-80', in Geraint H. Jenkins (ed.), 'Gwnewch Bopeth yn Gymrae': Y Gymraeg a'i Pheuoedd, 1801-1911 (Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1999), pp. 501-26.
    ['The Languages of Patriotism in Wales, 1840-80']
  • 'Religion, Nationality and Politics: Disestablishment in Ireland and Wales, 1868-1914' in John R. Guy and W. D. Neely (eds.), Contrasts and Comparisons: Studies in Irish and Welsh Church History (Llandysul, Gomer Press, 1999), pp. 89-112.

1998

  • 'Accommodation and Resistance: A Comparison of Cultural Identities in Ireland and Wales, c.1880-1914' in S. J. Connolly (ed.), Kingdoms United? Great Britain and Ireland since 1500 (Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1998), pp. 123-34.
  • 'Of Devolution, Maps and Divided Mentalities: Deconstructing a New National Icon', Planet: the Welsh Internationalist, 127 (Feb/March, 1998), 7-12.

1996

  • 'From the Cradle to the Grave: Popular Catholicism among the Irish in Wales' in Patrick O'Sullivan (ed.), Religion and Identity: The Irish Worldwide Vol. V (London/ New York, Leicester University Press, 1996), pp. 183-95.

1994

  • ''Trais a Thwyll a Cherddi': Y Gwyddelod yng Nghymru, 1798-1882' in Geraint H. Jenkins (ed.), Cof Cenedl IX (1994), pp. 129-62.
    [' 'Violence, Deception and Poetry': the Irish in Wales, 1798-1882']
  • 'Articles Relating to the History of Wales Published Mainly in 1992', Welsh History Review, 17, No. 2 (1994), 304-311.

1993

  • 'Articles Relating to the History of Wales Published Mainly in 1991', Welsh History Review, 16, No. 4, (1993), 597-604.

1992

  • 'The Enemy Without: Policing and Class Consciousness in the Miners' Strike', Journal of Law and Society, 19, No. 2 (1992), 284-92.
  • 'A Tolerant Country? Immigrants, Refugees and Minorities in Britain', Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 13, No. 3 (1992), 302-6.
  • 'Articles Relating to the History of Wales Published Mainly in 1990', Welsh History Review, 16, No. 2 (1992), 280-88.

1991

  • 'Anti-Irish Riots in Wales, 1826-1882', Llafur, Journal of Welsh Labour History, 5, No. 4 (1991), 27-36.
  • 'Immigration and the Growth of Pontypridd, 1841-1914', in B. S. Tobin and J. I. Davies (eds.), The Bridge and the Song (Bridgend, 1991), pp. 19-27.

1990

  • 'The Irish in Wales: The Integration of a Minority', CEDPATH 90: The Irish in Britain (London, Department of Education and Science, 1990), pp. 24-6.

1988

  • 'Irish Immigration and the Catholic 'Welsh District', 1840-1850', in G. H. Jenkins and J. B. Smith (eds.), Politics and Society in Wales, 1840-1922: Essays in Honour of Ieuan Gwynedd Jones (Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1988), pp. 29-45.

1985

  • 'Syndicalist Teachers in the Rhondda, 1913-1919', Llafur: the Journal of Welsh Labour History, 4, No. 3 (1985), 80-4.
  • 'The Welsh Political Archive', Llafur: the Journal of Welsh Labour History, 4,
    No. 2 (1985), 101-2.

Forthcoming:

  • Claiming the Streets: Processions and Urban Culture in South Wales, c1830-1914 (Cardiff, University of Wales Press), co-author with Neil Evans.
  • 'Mass commodity culture and identity: the Morning Chronicle and Irish migrants in a nineteenth-century industrial town', Urban History (forthcoming).
  • 'Processions, Power and Public Space: Corpus Christi at Cardiff, 1872-1914', Welsh History Review (forthcoming).