Tomás Irish
Biographic Data
| ID | 1188926 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tomás Irish |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tomás |
| FAMILY NAME | Irish |
| SIGNATURE | IRISH T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7736-4289 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Geneva to Washington: The lived internationalism of Walter Kotschnig between the League of Nations and the United Nations, 1925–45
History Roundtable on US Universities and the State: Episodes from the Twentieth Century
This roundtable explores four historical episodes in the history of state–university relations in the United States. In doing so, it addresses issues that also figure prominently in present‐day debates, including questions of academic freedom and free speech, the state's role in research funding as well as the international features of higher education. Convened by the journal's editor, the roundtable features individual contributions from four h…
Children, young people and the League of Nations in interwar Britain
This article asks how the League of Nations, and its supporters in Britain, sought to mobilize young people c.1918-39. How did children and young people associated with the League of Nations Union engage with the League of Nations? What meanings were ascribed to this engagement? Drawing on sources from the League of Nations and local junior branches, we explore spaces for internationalist engagement from the local community to overseas travel. We…
Sakiko Kaiga. Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914–1919
Journal Article Sakiko Kaiga. Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914–1919. Get access Sakiko Kaiga. Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914–1919. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. vii, 224. Cloth $99.99. Tomás Irish Tomás Irish Swansea University, UK Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical …
Learned Lives in England, 1900-1950: Institutions, Ideas, and Intellectual Experience
Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University
In Allies and Rivals, Emily Levine tells the story of the emergence of the modern research university through the lens of the national rivalry and exchange that linked institutions in Germany and the United States. The book explores this development over a long century, stretching from the establishment of the University of Berlin in 1810 to the mass intellectual emigration from Germany following the Nazi law of 7 April 1933. Central to Levine’s …
The Paris Peace Conference and Cultural Reparations after the First World War
The First World War was marked by cultural destruction that violated international law and outraged international audiences. This article examines the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the five post-war treaties (Versailles, Saint-Germain, Neuilly, Trianon and Sèvres) to explore how these issues were resolved in the post-war settlements. Rather than focusing solely on the substance of the treaties, the article examines the process through which …
Educating those who matter: Thomas Whittemore, Russian refugees and the transnational organization of elite humanitarianism after the First World War
This article examines the work of the Committee for the Education of Russian Youth in Exile (CERYE) and its founder, the American scholar Thomas Whittemore. Established during the Russian Civil War, the CERYE rescued displaced Russian youth from Constantinople and placed them in schools and universities across Europe, but only if they could demonstrate sufficient intellectual merit. It made a virtue of its elitism and Whittemore revelled in its s…
International Organizations and Global Civil Society: Histories of the Union of International Associations, ed. Daniel Laqua, Wouter Van Acker and Christophe Verbruggen
There has been a resurgence in scholarship on the history of internationalism in recent years. This volume about the history of the Union of International Associations (UIA), edited by Daniel Laqua, Wouter Van Acker and Christophe Verbruggen, both draws on existing approaches to the field of internationalism while also opening up new approaches to the topic. The UIA was established in Brussels in 1910 to document the diverse work being undertaken…
The “Moral Basis” of Reconstruction? Humanitarianism, Intellectual Relief and the League of Nations, 1918–1925
This article analyses the post-First World War emergence of intellectual relief. This is defined here as aid given to intellectuals and scholarly institutions. Relief included the provision of food and medicines to individuals as well as the supply of relevant scholarly literature and laboratory equipment to academic institutions. After 1918, significant humanitarian interventions targeted Central and Eastern Europe, which had been ravaged by war…
The Academic World in the Era of the Great War
This book examines the ways in which scholarly expertise was mobilized during the First World War, and the consequences of this for the inter-connected
Scholarly identities in war and peace: The Paris Peace Conference and the mobilization of intellect
This article analyses international scholarship of the early twentieth century by focusing on scholarly networks and the uncomfortable interplay between their claims to universalism and the realities of an international war with global dimensions. Academics, books, and ideas had traversed the world with relative ease and regularity from the mid nineteenth century. The consequences were the creation of a hierarchical and Euro-American dominated ‘a…
A man called Mahaffy: An Irish cosmopolitan confronts crisis, 1899-1919
This article examines the last twenty years of the life of one of Ireland's most controversial scholars, the polymath John Pentland Mahaffy. Mahaffy's name still has wide resonance in Irish historiography owing to his interventions in Irish cultural politics in the decades before 1919. He is frequently seen as an ‘anti-Irish’ figure. This article places Mahaffy in the wider context of international scholarship of the late Victorian era, arguing t…
The University at War, 1914–25
Drawing on examples from Britain, France, and the United States, this book examines how scholars and scholarship found themselves mobilized to solve many problems created by modern warfare in World Wa
From international to inter-allied: Transatlantic university relations in the era of the First World War, 1905–1920
Fractured Families: Educated Elites in Britain and France and the Challenge of the Great War
This article examines the experiences of university elites in Britain and France during and after the First World War. It compares the elite network of the École Normale Supérieure with that of Trinity and King's Colleges in Cambridge, arguing that these communities functioned and understood themselves as families. The war, which suspended normal intellectual practice and placed mobilized university elites (as junior officers) at an increased ris…
Scholarly identities in war and peace: The Paris Peace Conference and the mobilization of intellect
This article analyses international scholarship of the early twentieth century by focusing on scholarly networks and the uncomfortable interplay between their claims to universalism and the realities of an international war with global dimensions. Academics, books, and ideas had traversed the world with relative ease and regularity from the mid nineteenth century. The consequences were the creation of a hierarchical and Euro-American dominated ‘a…
From international to inter-allied: Transatlantic university relations in the era of the First World War, 1905–1920
Fractured Families: Educated Elites in Britain and France and the Challenge of the Great War
This article examines the experiences of university elites in Britain and France during and after the First World War. It compares the elite network of the École Normale Supérieure with that of Trinity and King's Colleges in Cambridge, arguing that these communities functioned and understood themselves as families. The war, which suspended normal intellectual practice and placed mobilized university elites (as junior officers) at an increased ris…
Fractured Families: Educated Elites in Britain and France and the Challenge of the Great War
This article examines the experiences of university elites in Britain and France during and after the First World War. It compares the elite network of the École Normale Supérieure with that of Trinity and King's Colleges in Cambridge, arguing that these communities functioned and understood themselves as families. The war, which suspended normal intellectual practice and placed mobilized university elites (as junior officers) at an increased ris…
The University at War, 1914–25
Drawing on examples from Britain, France, and the United States, this book examines how scholars and scholarship found themselves mobilized to solve many problems created by modern warfare in World Wa
From international to inter-allied: Transatlantic university relations in the era of the First World War, 1905–1920
Scholarly identities in war and peace: The Paris Peace Conference and the mobilization of intellect
This article analyses international scholarship of the early twentieth century by focusing on scholarly networks and the uncomfortable interplay between their claims to universalism and the realities of an international war with global dimensions. Academics, books, and ideas had traversed the world with relative ease and regularity from the mid nineteenth century. The consequences were the creation of a hierarchical and Euro-American dominated ‘a…
A man called Mahaffy: An Irish cosmopolitan confronts crisis, 1899-1919
This article examines the last twenty years of the life of one of Ireland's most controversial scholars, the polymath John Pentland Mahaffy. Mahaffy's name still has wide resonance in Irish historiography owing to his interventions in Irish cultural politics in the decades before 1919. He is frequently seen as an ‘anti-Irish’ figure. This article places Mahaffy in the wider context of international scholarship of the late Victorian era, arguing t…
The Academic World in the Era of the Great War
This book examines the ways in which scholarly expertise was mobilized during the First World War, and the consequences of this for the inter-connected
The “Moral Basis” of Reconstruction? Humanitarianism, Intellectual Relief and the League of Nations, 1918–1925
This article analyses the post-First World War emergence of intellectual relief. This is defined here as aid given to intellectuals and scholarly institutions. Relief included the provision of food and medicines to individuals as well as the supply of relevant scholarly literature and laboratory equipment to academic institutions. After 1918, significant humanitarian interventions targeted Central and Eastern Europe, which had been ravaged by war…
International Organizations and Global Civil Society: Histories of the Union of International Associations, ed. Daniel Laqua, Wouter Van Acker and Christophe Verbruggen
There has been a resurgence in scholarship on the history of internationalism in recent years. This volume about the history of the Union of International Associations (UIA), edited by Daniel Laqua, Wouter Van Acker and Christophe Verbruggen, both draws on existing approaches to the field of internationalism while also opening up new approaches to the topic. The UIA was established in Brussels in 1910 to document the diverse work being undertaken…
Educating those who matter: Thomas Whittemore, Russian refugees and the transnational organization of elite humanitarianism after the First World War
This article examines the work of the Committee for the Education of Russian Youth in Exile (CERYE) and its founder, the American scholar Thomas Whittemore. Established during the Russian Civil War, the CERYE rescued displaced Russian youth from Constantinople and placed them in schools and universities across Europe, but only if they could demonstrate sufficient intellectual merit. It made a virtue of its elitism and Whittemore revelled in its s…
Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University
In Allies and Rivals, Emily Levine tells the story of the emergence of the modern research university through the lens of the national rivalry and exchange that linked institutions in Germany and the United States. The book explores this development over a long century, stretching from the establishment of the University of Berlin in 1810 to the mass intellectual emigration from Germany following the Nazi law of 7 April 1933. Central to Levine’s …
The Paris Peace Conference and Cultural Reparations after the First World War
The First World War was marked by cultural destruction that violated international law and outraged international audiences. This article examines the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the five post-war treaties (Versailles, Saint-Germain, Neuilly, Trianon and Sèvres) to explore how these issues were resolved in the post-war settlements. Rather than focusing solely on the substance of the treaties, the article examines the process through which …
Sakiko Kaiga. Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914–1919
Journal Article Sakiko Kaiga. Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914–1919. Get access Sakiko Kaiga. Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914–1919. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. vii, 224. Cloth $99.99. Tomás Irish Tomás Irish Swansea University, UK Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical …
Learned Lives in England, 1900-1950: Institutions, Ideas, and Intellectual Experience
From Geneva to Washington: The lived internationalism of Walter Kotschnig between the League of Nations and the United Nations, 1925–45
History Roundtable on US Universities and the State: Episodes from the Twentieth Century
This roundtable explores four historical episodes in the history of state–university relations in the United States. In doing so, it addresses issues that also figure prominently in present‐day debates, including questions of academic freedom and free speech, the state's role in research funding as well as the international features of higher education. Convened by the journal's editor, the roundtable features individual contributions from four h…
Children, young people and the League of Nations in interwar Britain
This article asks how the League of Nations, and its supporters in Britain, sought to mobilize young people c.1918-39. How did children and young people associated with the League of Nations Union engage with the League of Nations? What meanings were ascribed to this engagement? Drawing on sources from the League of Nations and local junior branches, we explore spaces for internationalist engagement from the local community to overseas travel. We…
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