Cian T Mcmahon
Biographic Data
| ID | 166733 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cian T Mcmahon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cian T |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmahon |
| SIGNATURE | MCMAHON C T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3396-0193 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Marion R. Casey. The Green Space
Globalizing Irish America
WHAT IS GLOBAL HISTORY? Since the turn of the twenty-first century, this well-worn historiographical address has shifted from state-of-the-field agenda to existential question. Writing in 2016 in his survey What Is Global History?, Sebastian Conrad proclaimed: “global/world history is currently booming . . . given the widespread fashion for seeing ‘globalization’ as the key to understanding the present, the need to go back in time and explore the…
Mining Irish-American Lives
In his sweeping history of the United States, published in the early 1890s, Frederick Jackson Turner argued that the roots of American democracy lay in White settlers’ victory over the western frontier. As hearty European settlers pushed civilization further and further west, Turner argued, they forged a new kind of American spirit rooted in individualistic freedom. Since the 1980s, Turner’s triumphant “Frontier Thesis” has been largely eclipsed …
Colin Barr. Ireland’s Empire
Throughout much of the English-speaking world, for most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the words “Irish” and “Catholic” were practically synonymous, and yet historians have lacked a clear answer as to why this was. While most Irish Protestants migrants—beyond the “Scotch-Irish” of the southern United States—evolved from being “Irish” and “Protestant” to merely “Canadian” or “Australian,” Irish Catholics maintained a strong dual identi…
That City Af loat”
Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, millions of migrants from every corner of the earth spent weeks and sometimes months at sea. Yet these ubiquitous voyages appear as little more than blank pages in the annals of human migration. Maritime social history has grown considerably over the past thirty years, offering brilliant new insights into the lived experiences of sailors, pirates, and slaves. But the lowly emigrant has been larg…
The Coffin Ship
A vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great Famine The standard story of the exodus during Ireland’s Great Famine is one of tired clichés, half-truths, and dry statistics. In The Coffin Ship , a groundbreaking work of transnational history, Cian T. McMahon offers a vibrant, fresh perspective on an oft-ignored but vital component of the migration experience: the journey…
Mediating America
Atlas of the Great Irish Famine
Book Review| July 01 2016 Atlas of the Great Irish Famine Atlas of the Great Irish Famine. Edited by John Crowley, William J. Smyth, and Mike Murphy. New York: NYU Press, 2012. xvi + 710 pp. $75.00 (cloth). Cian T. McMahon Cian T. McMahon University of Nevada, Las Vegas Cian T. McMahon is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He has published articles on Irish and American immigration history in the Journal of Amer…
Between Raid and Rebellion
Book Review| January 01 2016 Between Raid and Rebellion: The Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867–1916 Between Raid and Rebellion: The Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867–1916. By William Jenkins. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013. xx + 511 pp. CAD$110 (cloth). Cian T. McMahon Cian T. McMahon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2016) 35 (2): 124–125. https://doi.org/10.5406/jam…
The pages of whiteness
The author traces the growth and decline of whiteness studies over the past two and a half decades, from the publication of David Roediger’s The Wages of Whiteness in the early 1990s to the present day. Although it accurately identified race as a social construct in modern society, ‘whiteness’ also employed over-simplifications that ultimately undermined its critical relevance. Nonetheless, the author demonstrates how the colourful career of ‘whi…
Global Dimensions of Irish Identity
Though Ireland is a relatively small island on the northeastern fringe of the Atlantic, 70 million people worldwide—including some 45 million in the United States—claim it as their ancestral home. This book explores the nineteenth-century roots of this transnational identity. Between 1840 and 1880, 4.5 million people left Ireland to start new lives abroad. Using primary sources from Ireland, Australia, and the United States, the book demonstrates…
International Celebrities and Irish Identity in the United States and Beyond, 1840–1860
This article uses Antonio Gramsci's theory of cultural hegemony to analyze how a relatively small Irish-American bourgeoisie legitimated its authority over the broader Irish ethnic community during the antebellum era. As part of the massive wave of immigrants that left Ireland during and after the Great Famine of the mid-1840s, the Irish Catholic middle class was saddled with a dually marginal status. On the one hand, its members maintained only …
Cartoons in the Classroom
POLITICAL CARTOONS are great teaching tools. They are abundant; there are plenty scattered across the Internet. They are provocative; they present strong opinions on emotive subjects. They are accessible; students enjoy decoding their hidden messages. I teach history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). In the Fall 2012 semester, I was given the unique opportunity to teach a freshman seminar of my own design entitled “Great Migrations i…
Irish Free State newspapers and the Abyssinian crisis, 1935–6
Twenty-four years ago, Terence Brown raised very few eyebrows when he portrayed the Irish Free State in the 1930s as an insular society obsessed with self-sufficiency. The theme of insularity has dominated most narratives of the period, with emphasis on the Anglo-Irish Economic War, the Censorship Board and the 1937 Constitution. The de Valera government’s intention in the Economic War, after all, was to create native industries behind high-tarif…
Global Dimensions of Irish Identity
Though Ireland is a relatively small island on the northeastern fringe of the Atlantic, 70 million people worldwide—including some 45 million in the United States—claim it as their ancestral home. This book explores the nineteenth-century roots of this transnational identity. Between 1840 and 1880, 4.5 million people left Ireland to start new lives abroad. Using primary sources from Ireland, Australia, and the United States, the book demonstrates…
Atlas of the Great Irish Famine
Book Review| July 01 2016 Atlas of the Great Irish Famine Atlas of the Great Irish Famine. Edited by John Crowley, William J. Smyth, and Mike Murphy. New York: NYU Press, 2012. xvi + 710 pp. $75.00 (cloth). Cian T. McMahon Cian T. McMahon University of Nevada, Las Vegas Cian T. McMahon is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He has published articles on Irish and American immigration history in the Journal of Amer…
Irish Free State newspapers and the Abyssinian crisis, 1935–6
Twenty-four years ago, Terence Brown raised very few eyebrows when he portrayed the Irish Free State in the 1930s as an insular society obsessed with self-sufficiency. The theme of insularity has dominated most narratives of the period, with emphasis on the Anglo-Irish Economic War, the Censorship Board and the 1937 Constitution. The de Valera government’s intention in the Economic War, after all, was to create native industries behind high-tarif…
Irish Free State newspapers and the Abyssinian crisis, 1935–6
Twenty-four years ago, Terence Brown raised very few eyebrows when he portrayed the Irish Free State in the 1930s as an insular society obsessed with self-sufficiency. The theme of insularity has dominated most narratives of the period, with emphasis on the Anglo-Irish Economic War, the Censorship Board and the 1937 Constitution. The de Valera government’s intention in the Economic War, after all, was to create native industries behind high-tarif…
International Celebrities and Irish Identity in the United States and Beyond, 1840–1860
This article uses Antonio Gramsci's theory of cultural hegemony to analyze how a relatively small Irish-American bourgeoisie legitimated its authority over the broader Irish ethnic community during the antebellum era. As part of the massive wave of immigrants that left Ireland during and after the Great Famine of the mid-1840s, the Irish Catholic middle class was saddled with a dually marginal status. On the one hand, its members maintained only …
Cartoons in the Classroom
POLITICAL CARTOONS are great teaching tools. They are abundant; there are plenty scattered across the Internet. They are provocative; they present strong opinions on emotive subjects. They are accessible; students enjoy decoding their hidden messages. I teach history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). In the Fall 2012 semester, I was given the unique opportunity to teach a freshman seminar of my own design entitled “Great Migrations i…
The pages of whiteness
The author traces the growth and decline of whiteness studies over the past two and a half decades, from the publication of David Roediger’s The Wages of Whiteness in the early 1990s to the present day. Although it accurately identified race as a social construct in modern society, ‘whiteness’ also employed over-simplifications that ultimately undermined its critical relevance. Nonetheless, the author demonstrates how the colourful career of ‘whi…
Global Dimensions of Irish Identity
Though Ireland is a relatively small island on the northeastern fringe of the Atlantic, 70 million people worldwide—including some 45 million in the United States—claim it as their ancestral home. This book explores the nineteenth-century roots of this transnational identity. Between 1840 and 1880, 4.5 million people left Ireland to start new lives abroad. Using primary sources from Ireland, Australia, and the United States, the book demonstrates…
Atlas of the Great Irish Famine
Book Review| July 01 2016 Atlas of the Great Irish Famine Atlas of the Great Irish Famine. Edited by John Crowley, William J. Smyth, and Mike Murphy. New York: NYU Press, 2012. xvi + 710 pp. $75.00 (cloth). Cian T. McMahon Cian T. McMahon University of Nevada, Las Vegas Cian T. McMahon is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He has published articles on Irish and American immigration history in the Journal of Amer…
Between Raid and Rebellion
Book Review| January 01 2016 Between Raid and Rebellion: The Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867–1916 Between Raid and Rebellion: The Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867–1916. By William Jenkins. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013. xx + 511 pp. CAD$110 (cloth). Cian T. McMahon Cian T. McMahon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2016) 35 (2): 124–125. https://doi.org/10.5406/jam…
Mediating America
The Coffin Ship
A vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great Famine The standard story of the exodus during Ireland’s Great Famine is one of tired clichés, half-truths, and dry statistics. In The Coffin Ship , a groundbreaking work of transnational history, Cian T. McMahon offers a vibrant, fresh perspective on an oft-ignored but vital component of the migration experience: the journey…
That City Af loat”
Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, millions of migrants from every corner of the earth spent weeks and sometimes months at sea. Yet these ubiquitous voyages appear as little more than blank pages in the annals of human migration. Maritime social history has grown considerably over the past thirty years, offering brilliant new insights into the lived experiences of sailors, pirates, and slaves. But the lowly emigrant has been larg…
Mining Irish-American Lives
In his sweeping history of the United States, published in the early 1890s, Frederick Jackson Turner argued that the roots of American democracy lay in White settlers’ victory over the western frontier. As hearty European settlers pushed civilization further and further west, Turner argued, they forged a new kind of American spirit rooted in individualistic freedom. Since the 1980s, Turner’s triumphant “Frontier Thesis” has been largely eclipsed …
Colin Barr. Ireland’s Empire
Throughout much of the English-speaking world, for most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the words “Irish” and “Catholic” were practically synonymous, and yet historians have lacked a clear answer as to why this was. While most Irish Protestants migrants—beyond the “Scotch-Irish” of the southern United States—evolved from being “Irish” and “Protestant” to merely “Canadian” or “Australian,” Irish Catholics maintained a strong dual identi…
Globalizing Irish America
WHAT IS GLOBAL HISTORY? Since the turn of the twenty-first century, this well-worn historiographical address has shifted from state-of-the-field agenda to existential question. Writing in 2016 in his survey What Is Global History?, Sebastian Conrad proclaimed: “global/world history is currently booming . . . given the widespread fashion for seeing ‘globalization’ as the key to understanding the present, the need to go back in time and explore the…
Marion R. Casey. The Green Space
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