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Mairtin Sean O-Cathain

Senior Lecturer in Irish History

School of Humanities, Language and Global Studies

Fenianism, Irish in Scotland, Irish radical and labour history, Irish oral history, Irish diaspora, Modern Irish nationalism

Dr Máirtín Ó Catháin, Senior Lecturer in Modern Irish History, joined UCLan in 2007 from the University of Ulster at Magee where he completed his PhD in 2001 on the Fenian movement in Scotland. Since then he has continued to publish in aspects of Irish nationalist and labour history, the Irish in Scotland and the diaspora and oral history. He is currently working on a monograph study of obituaries in the Irish diaspora press.

BA (Hons) First Class in Irish History and Politics (Ulster, 1997) PhD in History (Ulster, 2001)

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  1. O-Cathain, Mairtin Sean orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-6740-2598 (2015) 'That link must be preserved but there are other problems': the British Labour Party and Derry, 1942-62. In: The British Labour Party and twentieth-century Ireland. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 135-148. ISBN 9780719096013
  2. O-Cathain, Mairtin Sean orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-6740-2598 (2016) Nora Connolly. In: Studies in Irish Radical Leadership: Lives on the Left. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 135-147. ISBN 9780719091049
  3. O-Cathain, Mairtin Sean orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-6740-2598 (2014) The North West of England and the 1798 Rebellion. Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 163 . pp. 37-54. ISSN 0140-332X
  4. O-Cathain, Mairtin Sean orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-6740-2598 (2020) 'No longer clad in corduroy'? The Glasgow University Irish National Club, 1907-1917. The Scottish Historical Review, 99 (2). pp. 271-294. ISSN 0036-9241
  5. Ó Catháin, Máirtín Seán orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-6740-2598 (2022) The war that didn't happen: waiting for ambushes in the Irish War of Independence. Contemporary European History . (Unpublished)