James Shanahan

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Jim Shanahan holds a B.A. (Hons) in Modern History and English Literature from the University of Oxford (1997); an M.Phil in Anglo-Irish Literature, Trinity College Dublin (1998); and a Ph.D from TCD (2006). He has published widely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fiction, with particular emphasis on Irish historical fiction relating to the 1798 rebellion, and the novels of Charles Lever. He has also contributed articles to the Literary Encyclopedia Online (www.litencyc.com) and to the Cambridge Dictionary of Irish Biography.

Book Chapter

Year Publication
2020 Jim Shanahan (2020) ''Imperial Minds: Irish Writers and Empire in the Nineteenth Century - Charles Gavan Duffy, Thomas Moore, Charles Lever, and Kim' In: Irish Literature in Transition, 1830-1880. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. [DOI]
2017 Jim Shanahan (2017) 'Terry Pratchett: Almost Human' In: Twenty-First Century Popular Fiction. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press.
2017 Jim Shanahan (2017) 'Getting Back to Ireland: Charles Lever's Soldiers of Fortune, Tourists, and Irishmen in Reverse' In: Travelling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan.
2016 Jim Shanahan (2016) 'Paddythackeray: Thackeray and the Timeless Space of the Irish Military Novel' In: Thackeray in Time: History, Memory, and Modernity. Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge.
2014 Shanahan, J. (2014) 'Suffering rebellion: Irish Gothic fiction, 1799-1830' In: Irish Gothics: Genres, Forms, Modes, And Traditions, 1760-1890. [Link] [DOI]
2013 Jim Shanahan (2013) ''The Losing Side Ever': Charles Lever, Walter Scott and the Irish National Tale' In: Romantic Ireland: From Tone to Gonne; Fresh Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars.
2013 Jim Shanahan (2013) 'Séan Burke, Lion of Lahinch: An IRA Man at the Walker Cup' In: Ordinary Irish Life: Music, Sport and Culture. Sallins : Irish Academic Press.
2011 Jim Shanahan (2011) 'Escaping from Barrett's Moon: Recreating the Irish Literary Landscape in the Romantic Period' In: Ireland and Romanticism: Publics, Nations and Scenes of Cultural Production. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan.
2011 Jim Shanahan (2011) 'The Years of the French: France and the 1798 Rebellion in Fiction' In: France, Ireland and Rebellion. Rennes : CRBC Rennes 2.
2010 Jim Shanahan (2010) ''Vivid Irish History': Frank Mathew's The Wood of the Brambles and the Prehistory of Irish Modernist Fiction' In: Irish Modernism: Origins, Contexts, Publics. Oxford : Peter Lang.
2007 Jim Shanahan (2007) 'Fearing to Speak: Fear and the 1798 Rebellion in the Nineteenth Century' In: Fear: Essays on the Meaning and Experience of Fear. Dublin : Four Courts.
2007 Jim Shanahan (2007) ''The Fostering Aid of a Sister Country': Wales in Irish Novels, 1796-1810' In: Wales and the Romantic Imagination. Cardiff : University of Wales Press.
2003 Jim Shanahan (2003) '“Reviving Pleasant Memories”: Charles Lever and the Crisis of Union' In: New Voices in Irish Criticism, Volume II. Dublin : Four Courts.

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2011 Shanahan, Jim (2011) 'Tales of the Time: Early Fictions of the 1798 Rebellion'. Irish University Review, 41 (1):151-+.

Electronic Source

Year Publication
2020 Jim Shanahan (2020) Irish Romanticism. ELES
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Professional Associations

Association Function From / To
Eighteenth-Century Literature Research Network of Ireland Member -
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures Member -
Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland Member -
Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society Member -

Honors and Awards

Date Title Awarding Body
01/01/2007 Government of Ireland Doctoral Research Fellow, School of English TCD IRCHSS

Research Interests

His research interests include: eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, especially Irish fiction; the interaction between history, memory and fiction; the historical novel; Romanticism; the Gothic; fiction of the 1798 Rebellion; the history of sport.

Current Postgraduate Students

Student Name Degree Supervision
Hunt ,Giorgia PhD-track Supervisor

Teaching Interests

Romanticism, Eighteenth-century fiction, Nineteenth-century fiction, Irish writing, speculative fiction, the historical novel.

Modules Coordinated

Term Title Subject
2022 Introduction to Fiction:Short Story and Novel EL101
2022 Eng.Study Skills,Creativity&Theoretical Contx EL102
2022 Romanticism: Innocence and Experience EL203
2022 19th Century Literature EL204
2020 Research Seminar EL301
2022 Romanticism EL308
2022 Theories, Critics, Research Methods EL502