Gavin Foster
Entered Notre Dame: Fall 2002
Interests
'Concentration: modern Ireland and Britain.
Other areas of interest: Irish America; France; labor history; migration
studies; republicanism; history of memory; comparative dimensions of
nationalism, class, revolution and civil war
Dissertation
The Social Structures and Cultural Politics of the Irish Civil War
Advisor: Jim Smyth
Publications
‘'Scotsmen, Stand by Ireland! John Maclean and the Irish Revolution," 'History
Ireland,' January/February 2008, Vol.16, No.1
"In the Shadow of the Split: Writing the Irish Civil War" in Field Day Review, No. 2, 2006
Teaching Experience
Developed and taught HIST 30437, "Ireland: From Famine to Independence" (Spring 2006) Teaching Assistant for Western Civilization II; Irish-American Experience;British History 1660-1800; Irish History 1600-1800 (2003-2005)
Contact
Email: gfoster@nd.edu