James S. Donnelly, Jr.

James S. Donnelly, Jr. (born 1943) is a modern British and Irish historian. Donnelly is a Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of the most prolific and wide-ranging historians of Ireland, he has also been a leading figure in the promotion of Irish studies in North America. Donnelly is a former president of the American Conference for Irish Studies, and a current co-editor of the journal "Éire-Ireland".

He is the author of:
*"Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture". 2004. editor and chief.
*"The Great Irish Potato Famine". (2001).
*"Irish Popular Culture 1650-1850". (1999), co-edited with Kerby A. Miller.
*"Irish Peasants: Violence & Political Unrest, 1780-1914". (1983), co-edited with Samuel Clark.
*"The Land and the People of Nineteenth-Century Cork: The Rural Economy and Land Question." 1975 (which was awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association)
*"Landlord and Tenant in Nineteenth-Century Ireland." 1973.
*"Opposing the "Modern World": The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Ireland, 1965-85." "Éire-Ireland" 2005 40(1-2): 183-245.
*"A Church in Crisis: The Irish Catholic Church Today." "History Ireland" 2000 8(3): 12-17.
*"The Construction of the Memory of the Famine in Ireland and the Irish Diaspora, 1850-1900." "Éire-Ireland" 1996 31(1-2): 26-61.
*"The Terry Alt Movement 1829-31." "History Ireland" 1994 2(4): 30-35.
*"The Great Famine: Its Interpreters, Old and New." "History Ireland" 1993 1(3): 27-33
*"The Marian Shrine of Knock: The First Decade." "Éire-Ireland" 1993 28(2): 54-99.
*"Republicanism and Reaction in the 1790s." "Irish Economic and Social History" [Great Britain] 1984 11: 94-100.
*"Hearts of Oak, Hearts of Steel." "Studia Hibernica" 1981 21: 7-73.
*"Propagating the Cause of the United Irishmen." "Studies" [Ireland] 1980 69(273): 5-23.
*"The Rightboy Movement", "Studia Hibernica" 1977-78 17-18: 120-202.
*"The Whiteboy Movement, 1761-65." "Irish Historical Studies" 1978 21(81): 20-54.
* "The Irish Agricultural Depression of 1859-64." "Irish Economic and Social History Journal" 1976 3: 33-54.
*"Cork Market: Its Role in the Nineteenth-Century Irish Butter Trade." "Studia Hibernica" 1971 11: 130-163.

References

*Article on James S. Donnelly Jr. in the Irish American Post, June 2001, Vol. 2, Issue 1 [http://www.gaelicweb.com/irishampost/year2001/06june/featured/featured14.html]
*Article "Professor Discusses Irish Potato Famine at CIS Lecture." In The Current Online the University of Missouri-St. Louis Student Newspaper. Nov. 2004. [http://media.www.thecurrentonline.com/media/storage/paper304/news/2004/11/08/Features/Professor.Discusses.Irish.Potato.Famine.At.Cis.Lecture-797135.shtml?sourcedomain=www.thecurrentonline.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com]