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About Aidan Beatty
I’m a historian from Galway, Ireland and studied at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Chicago. My research focuses on Irish and British History, Jewish and Israeli History, Masculinity, Nationalism, Race, and Capitalism and Socialism. m a lecturer in the History Department at Carnegie Mellon University and have previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Wayne State University and the University of Chicago. I’ve also held postdoctoral positions at Concordia University in Montreal (from 2015-16) and at Trinity College Dublin (2016-17). My first book, Masculinity and Power in Irish Nationalism, was published in 2016 and was awarded the prize for best history book of the year by the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS). My second book, Private Property and the Fear of Social Chaos, was published with Manchester University Press in early 2023 and I’m now finishing a book for Pluto Press on the British Trotskyist group The Workers Revolutionary Party and their Irish-born leader, Gerry Healy, to be published in late 2024. I currently serve as Vice-President of ACIS, on a term from 2023-25. From 2025-27, I will be president of ACIS. I’ve had peer-reviewed work published in the Journal of Modern History, Irish Historical Studies and the Journal of Jewish Studies and have written for the Irish Times, Jacobin and the Washington Post. I’ve been a guest editor of the Journal of World-Systems Research and the Radical History Review and am currently co-editing a special issue of the Irish Studies Review focusing on Irish Capitalism. I am also the co-editor of Irish Questions and Jewish Questions, published with Syracuse University Press in 2018.NBN Episodes hosted by Aidan:
February 8, 2026
Documenting Irish Feminisms
Linda Connolly is a professor of sociology at Maynooth University, with research focusing on gender, Irish society, family studies, migration, and Iri…
January 3, 2026
Race, Politics, and Irish America
In this interview, she discusses her book, Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History (Oxford UP, 2023), which inserts successive Irish-Ameri…
September 10, 2025
Love in the Lav
Averill Earls is an associate professor in history at St. Olaf’s College and her research focuses on sexuality and modern Ireland. Her writing has app…
August 2, 2025
Rethinking Feminism in Ireland
Camilla Fitzsimons teaches at Maynooth University and is the author of Community Education and Neoliberalism in 2017 as well as Repealed: Ireland's Un…
June 24, 2025
Judaizing Christianity and Christian Zionism in Northern Ireland
Véronique Altglas holds a PhD from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris and has served as a as a lecturer in sociology at Queen’s University …
April 10, 2025
Good Trouble
Forest Isaac Jones is an award-winning author of non-fiction and essays, specializing in the study of Irish History, the US Civil Rights Movement and …
April 5, 2025
Republican Solipsist
Seán Creagh was born in County Monaghan in 1977. He attended Our Lady’s Secondary School in Castleblayney and later on Dundalk Institute of Technology…
January 15, 2025
From the 'Troubles' to Trumpism
Stephen Watt is the Provost Professor of English at Indiana University. His research interests include drama and theatre of the 19th and 20th centuri…
January 12, 2025
Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland
Ciaran O’Neill is the Ussher Associate Professor in Nineteenth-Century History at Trinity College Dublin. His work mainly focuses on the social and c…
November 11, 2024
The Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly, 1889-1898
Dr. Conor McCabe is a research fellow with Queen’s Business School, Queens University Belfast. He is the author of numerous policy and research report…
September 21, 2024
Embodying Irish Abortion Reform
Dr. Aideen O'Shaughnessy is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Lincoln. She has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge, …
September 14, 2024
The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland
Mary McAuliffe is a historian and lecturer in Gender Studies at UCD. Her latest publications include (is The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn co-authored with…
June 30, 2024
Exhibiting Irishness
Shahmima Akhtar is a historian of race, migration and empire and an assistant professor of Black and Asian British History at the University of Birmin…
June 15, 2024
The Land War in Ireland
In this interview, he discusses his new book The Land War in Ireland: Famine, Philanthropy and Moonlighting (Cork UP, 2023), a collection of interconn…
June 8, 2024
The Coffin Ship
Cian T. McMahon is an associate professor of history at University of Nevada-Las Vegas. His research focuses on the history and identity of the Irish …
May 8, 2024
The Green Space
Marion Casey is a professor at Glucksman Ireland House at New York University where she also serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies. She has publ…
April 11, 2024
Irish Culture and 'The People'
Seamus O’Malley is an associate professor at Yeshiva University. His first book was Making History New: Modernism and Historical Narrative (Oxford Uni…
January 27, 2024
The Necromantics
The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature (Ohio State UP, 2023) dwells on the literal afte…
January 11, 2024
The Irish and the Imagination of Race
Patrick R. O'Malley's book The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy Across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century (U Virginia Press, 202…
December 22, 2023
Uncivil War
Huw Bennett is a Reader in International Relations at Cardiff Unviersity. He specializes in strategic studies, the history of war, and intelligence s…
November 20, 2023
The Wolfhounds of Irish-American Nationalism
As Ireland's oldest revolutionary movement and America's oldest transatlantic nationalist organization this is the first book covering the entire hist…
November 11, 2023
Power, Politics and Territory in the ‘New Northern Ireland’
In the wake of the Good Friday Agreement, the redevelopment of the former Girdwood Army Barracks in North Belfast was hailed as a ‘symbol of hope’ for…
October 28, 2023
Indian, Black and Irish
In this interview James Fenelon discusses his new book entitled Indian, Black and Irish: Indigenous Nations, African Peoples, European Invasions, 1492…
June 27, 2023
Gender and Punishment in Ireland
Dr Lynsey Black is a lecturer in criminology, in the School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University. She researches in the areas of gender and pun…