Participant Info
- First Name
- Margaret
- Last Name
- Scull
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- mmscull@syr.edu
- Affiliation
- Syracuse University London
- Website URL
- https://syracuse-u.academia.edu/DrMaggieScull
- Keywords
- Northern Ireland, Peace, Catholic Church, Ireland, The 'Troubles', Conflict Societies, Contemporary British History
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
Maggie received a first class BA degree in History from Boston University. She then undertook an MPhil in Modern History at King’s College London. She remained at King’s for her doctoral studies and completed her PhD in 2017. Before joining NUI Galway as a Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Maggie taught and lectured on undergraduate and postgraduate courses at King’s, Canterbury Christ Church University, Syracuse University London, and Fordham University London. Maggie now works as an Adjunct Professor of British and Irish History at Syracuse University London.
Maggie’s interdisciplinary research explores the relationship religion and politics in the contemporary period. She examines the ‘soft power’ influence religious leaders still possessed in British and Irish politics after the Second World War. In 2019 Oxford University Press published her first book, The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’, 1968-98.
- Recent Publications
Press:
- ‘The troublesome world of paramilitary funerals’, RTÉ Brainstorm, 8 July 2020.
- ‘Hate Mail, the History of Emotions, and the Troubles’, Writing the Troubles, 15 June 2020.
- Interview with Audrey Carville for ‘Sunday Sequence’, BBC Radio Ulster, 1:06-1:23, 15 Dec. 2019.
- Interview with Mark Carruthers for ‘Sunday Politics Northern Ireland’, BBC, 8 Dec. 2019.
- ‘The Good Friday Agreement, 20 Years On’, History Workshop, 2 Dec. 2019.
- ‘The Catholic Church and the Troubles’, History Now, NVTV, Nov. 2019.
- ‘How the Catholic Church impacted on the Troubles’, RTÉ Brainstorm, 24 July 2019.
- ‘The churches, the peace process and reconciliation’, The Irish Times, 6 April 2018.
- Maggie Scull and Alison Garden, ‘Still rethinking the 1980/81 Hunger Strikes’, The Irish Times, online and in print, 3 October 2016.
- ‘A contested past: Histories of the 1980 and 1981 Hunger Strikes’, The Irish Times, online and in print, 18 December 2015.
- ‘Church Opinion in Northern Ireland, 1983’, History Ireland, November & December Issue, 2015.
- Maggie Scull and Alison Garden, ‘Rethinking the 1980/81 Hunger Strikes’, The Irish Times, 27 October 2015.
- Maggie Scull and Naomi Lloyd-Jones, ‘Four nations and the historical context of the devolution question’, History & Policy, 16 February 2015.
Journal Articles:
- ‘The Catholic Church and the Hunger Strikes of Terence MacSwiney and Bobby Sands’, Irish Political Studies, 31 (2), 2016, pp. 282-299.
Edited Collection:
- Four Nations Approaches to Modern ‘British’ History: A (Dis)united Kingdom?, Edited by Maggie Scull and Naomi Lloyd-Jones, Palgrave Macmillan, November 2017.
Special Edition Journals:
- ‘Rethinking the 1981 Hunger Strikes’, Edited by Maggie Scull and Alison Garden, Irish Review, June 2018.
- ‘Agreement 20’, Edited by Maggie Scull, George Legg and Caroline Magennis, The Open Library of Humanities, April 2018.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @MaggieMScull
- Country Focus
- Ireland, Britain
- Expertise by Geography
- England, Ireland, United Kingdom
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Government, Higher Ed, Military, Public History, Rebellion & Revolution, Religion, Women
