Owen Dudley Edwards
Biographic Data
| ID | 696526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Owen Dudley Edwards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Owen Dudley |
| FAMILY NAME | Edwards |
| SIGNATURE | EDWARDS O D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ancestral Voices
This review essay (written prior to the death of Alex Salmond) considers the historic parallels between two ‘great men’ of nineteenth Century Irish Nationalism – Charles Stewart Parnell and John Dillon – and more recent developments in Scotland’s politics. It does so in light of a recent book by Paul Bew (2023) on Ancestral Voices in Irish Politics – Judging Dillon and Parnell and asks just who is in a position to judge what
Alex Salmond And History
This short essay serves as an obituary of Alex Salmond (1954–2024) who died in October 2024. Salmond was leader of the SNP (1990–2000, 2004–14), of Alba (2021–24) and First Minister of Scotland (2007–14). The article situates both Salmond in history, and the role of History in shaping and understanding his political career
The Preacher in Scotland
Elizabeth II, Monarchy and Union
With the Death of HM Queen Elizabeth it is a useful time to reflect on the Crown and the Union in Scotland, and to question the future of both
Winston Churchill in a Christie Mystery
This essay looks at the literary relationship between two of Britain’s great twentieth century figures, Agatha Christie and Winston Churchill. The two are rarely considered together, but did Christie, in ‘The Augean Stables’ (1940), cast Churchill as the warmonger Everhard
Monarchy
Living in Brackets
This contribution to the theme of ‘Scotland and the Two Irelands’ considers some of the overlooked ironies of the common bonds between Scotland and Ireland. Ranging between literary and political figures over the last two centuries it concludes that our intertwined histories are stronger than the borders between us
Murdo Fraser and History
In this essay recent developments in the leadership of the Scottish Tories are considered via Murdo Fraser's Rivals, a history of the Marquises of Montrose and Argyll. The Rivals penetrates the present by the light of a 400-year-old Scottish past
Killing Scottish Toryism
This essay dissects the early premiership of Mr Boris Johnson with particular focus on his impact upon the Scottish Conservatives, and upon his biography of a previous Conservative Prime Minister: The Churchill Factor – How One Man Made History
The Blyton Brexit parodies
This essay uses Bruno Vincent's Five Brexit parodies to unpick Enid Blyton's wider legacy in British culture, and to understand our contemporary politics
A Case of Identity
This article utilises friendship as an analytical category to interpret the debate between Novanglus and Massachusettensis in 1774-75, demonstrating how the friendship of John Adams and Jonathan Sewall informed political discourse and Adams's radicalization, and validating Adams's presumption of Sewall's coauthorship of Massachusettensis with Daniel Leonard
And All This – The Education (Scotland) Act then and now
On the centenary of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1918, this essay offers personal reflections on its immediate impact and longer term legacies upon Scottish Catholicism. A century of Catholic state schools in Scotland has evolved very different Catholics – and a very different Scotland
Election 2017
This essay dissects the 2017 UK General Election and its implications for relationships within and between its constituent territories
The Making of the President, 2016–17
This essay situates Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 US presidential election against a background of US political history. It considers the style and themes of the Presidential race and poses the question: to what extent did the gender of Donald Trump's opponent shape his victory
Obituary
Eberhard ‘Paddy’ Bort served as Reviews Editor of Scottish Affairs from 2000 to his unexpected death in early 2017. This obituary outlines the unique contribution Paddy made to Scotland's intellectual and cultural life
And All That
The UK General Election of 2015, in which the Scottish National Party won 56 of the 59 seats, is likely to be a landmark in Scottish history. Moreover, for the first time since 1886, the victor in the predominant country in the Union – the Conservative Party in England – seemed to gain electoral victory in part by hostility to one of the partners of the Union. The article discusses the origins of this electoral tsunami. The immediate origin of th…
Macaulay and Son
The Making of the Pope 2013
This essay has been commissioned by your editor. The title I thought was mine, until I discovered two volumes on the Papal conclaves of 1978 and 2005 by the belligerent Irish-American priest, sociologist and best-selling novelist Andrew Greeley, recently deceased. He won a fortune (largely distributed in charitable donations) with such titles as The Cardinal Sins, so that the obviously risque implications of his The Making... and mine, faintly ac…
How God Saved The Queen
I Is it imperative? Is it optative? Have English, British, Welsh, Irish, colonised and imperial throats instructed God or have they wished of God? Byron, the phrase's subtlest analyst, seems to have thought it subjunctive or optative in the thirteenth verse of his 'A Vision of Judgment' (written in 1821): 'God save the king!' It is a large economy In God to save the like; which makes it economic, neatly relevant to the cost of monarchy, but then …
The Prime Ministerial Debates 2010
The Year of the Stranger
The first-time major party nominee can only dominate a US Presidential election across politics and history if that nominee is an issue, and an issue throwing the rest of the election into the shade. In 1860 Lincoln was such a candidate: elect him and you got a civil war, not of his official making but on the insistence of his opponents. For all of William McKinley's big victory in 1896, the entire election turned on his opponent William Jennings…
Ireland and the Liddell Reconquest of Scotland
Let's do it justice. It won its spurs in many a fray with results gratifying in the extreme to persons who would not soil their lips with its name. The Tories had a thin majority of seats and a popular vote minority in 1951. Had the Ulster Unionists voted against them in the House of Commons in a snap vote, they would probably have been out. That Ulster Unionist vote owed its strength to much banging of many drums, and not a few very dubious vote…
Is the Cardinal Anti-Catholic
Northern Ireland
The same reasoning which is now employed to vindicate the disabilities imposed on our Hebrew countrymen will equally vindicate the kiss of Judas and the judgment of Pilate. The Son of man goeth, as it is written of him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed.' And woe to those who. in any age or in any country, disobey his benevolent commands under pretence of accomplishing his predications
The Strange Death of Unionist Scotland and Wales
King: The King shall drink to Hamlet's better breath, And in the cup an union shall he throw, Richer than that which four successive kings In Denmark's crown have worn. Give me the cups; And let the kettle to the trumpet speak, The trumpet to the cannoneer without, The cannons to the heavens, the heaven to the earth, 'Now the King drinks to Hamlet', Come, begin And you, the judges, bear a wary eye
James Connolly
Elizabeth II, Monarchy and Union
With the Death of HM Queen Elizabeth it is a useful time to reflect on the Crown and the Union in Scotland, and to question the future of both
Oscar Wilde
(1995). Oscar Wilde: The soul of man under Hibernicism. Irish Studies Review: Vol. 3, Oscar Wilde, pp. 7-13
Patrick Macgill and the Making of a Historical Source
Patrick MacGill was born at Glenties, a little village in one of the wildest districts of Donegal on the north coast of Ireland, twenty-one years ago. The eldest of a family of ten, he had to go out into the world at a very early age and begin his fight in the great battle of life. When twelve years old he was engaged as a farm hand in the Irish Midlands, where his day's work began at five o'clock in the morning and went on till eleven at night t…
Reporters and Liberals
This linked-up anthology of New York Times news reports and magazine articles was published in the United States in 1964. It has, of course, already ‘dated’; but while the present edition makes no effort to offset this, Anthony Lewis supplies a new foreword, the point of which seems
The Fenian Movement
Journal Article The Fenian Movement. By Mabel Gregory Walker. (Colorado Springs: Ralph Myles Publisher, 1969. ix + 215 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $5.95; paper, $2.95.) Get access Owen Dudley Edwards Owen Dudley Edwards University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 56, Issue 4, March 1970, Page 925, https://doi.org/10.2307/1917557 Published: 01 M…
James Connolly
Divided Treasons and Divided Loyalties
The problem of treason in the first half of the twentieth century is at its most acute for the historian of Britain in contemplating the Irish dimension. Treason against the realm up to 1922 meant treason against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The dissolution of that Union, and the subsequent progress of twenty-six of the Irish counties to the status of a Republic in 1949, has built up a retrospective assumption on both sides of…
Patrick Macgill and the Making of a Historical Source
Patrick MacGill was born at Glenties, a little village in one of the wildest districts of Donegal on the north coast of Ireland, twenty-one years ago. The eldest of a family of ten, he had to go out into the world at a very early age and begin his fight in the great battle of life. When twelve years old he was engaged as a farm hand in the Irish Midlands, where his day's work began at five o'clock in the morning and went on till eleven at night t…
The Irish Priest in North America
To assert at the outset of this study, as I do, that the task before me is both impossible and essential, may be justly proclaimed a proceeding both cowardly and obvious. We are principally concerned with the nineteenth century, but the twentieth century prolonged many of the features of Irish Roman Catholic clerical identity of the nineteenth, in North America as elsewhere. Vitally important patterns and castes (social and mental) were establish…
Oscar Wilde
(1995). Oscar Wilde: The soul of man under Hibernicism. Irish Studies Review: Vol. 3, Oscar Wilde, pp. 7-13
Constitutions and National Identity
Journal Article Constitutions and National Identity: Proceedings of the Conference on ‘The Making of Constitutions and the Development of National Identity’ Held in Honour of Professor George Shepperson at the University of Edinburgh, 3–6 July 1987. Ed. by Thomas J. Barron, Owen Dudley Edwards, and Patricia J. Storey. (Edinburgh: Quadriga, 1993. xvi, 316 pp. £20, ISBN 1-85933-003-7.) Get access Vivien Hart Vivien Hart University of Sussex, Falmer…
The Strange Death of Unionist Scotland and Wales
King: The King shall drink to Hamlet's better breath, And in the cup an union shall he throw, Richer than that which four successive kings In Denmark's crown have worn. Give me the cups; And let the kettle to the trumpet speak, The trumpet to the cannoneer without, The cannons to the heavens, the heaven to the earth, 'Now the King drinks to Hamlet', Come, begin And you, the judges, bear a wary eye
Northern Ireland
The same reasoning which is now employed to vindicate the disabilities imposed on our Hebrew countrymen will equally vindicate the kiss of Judas and the judgment of Pilate. The Son of man goeth, as it is written of him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed.' And woe to those who. in any age or in any country, disobey his benevolent commands under pretence of accomplishing his predications
Is the Cardinal Anti-Catholic
Ireland and the Liddell Reconquest of Scotland
Let's do it justice. It won its spurs in many a fray with results gratifying in the extreme to persons who would not soil their lips with its name. The Tories had a thin majority of seats and a popular vote minority in 1951. Had the Ulster Unionists voted against them in the House of Commons in a snap vote, they would probably have been out. That Ulster Unionist vote owed its strength to much banging of many drums, and not a few very dubious vote…
The Year of the Stranger
The first-time major party nominee can only dominate a US Presidential election across politics and history if that nominee is an issue, and an issue throwing the rest of the election into the shade. In 1860 Lincoln was such a candidate: elect him and you got a civil war, not of his official making but on the insistence of his opponents. For all of William McKinley's big victory in 1896, the entire election turned on his opponent William Jennings…
The Prime Ministerial Debates 2010
How God Saved The Queen
I Is it imperative? Is it optative? Have English, British, Welsh, Irish, colonised and imperial throats instructed God or have they wished of God? Byron, the phrase's subtlest analyst, seems to have thought it subjunctive or optative in the thirteenth verse of his 'A Vision of Judgment' (written in 1821): 'God save the king!' It is a large economy In God to save the like; which makes it economic, neatly relevant to the cost of monarchy, but then …
The Making of the Pope 2013
This essay has been commissioned by your editor. The title I thought was mine, until I discovered two volumes on the Papal conclaves of 1978 and 2005 by the belligerent Irish-American priest, sociologist and best-selling novelist Andrew Greeley, recently deceased. He won a fortune (largely distributed in charitable donations) with such titles as The Cardinal Sins, so that the obviously risque implications of his The Making... and mine, faintly ac…
Macaulay and Son
And All That
The UK General Election of 2015, in which the Scottish National Party won 56 of the 59 seats, is likely to be a landmark in Scottish history. Moreover, for the first time since 1886, the victor in the predominant country in the Union – the Conservative Party in England – seemed to gain electoral victory in part by hostility to one of the partners of the Union. The article discusses the origins of this electoral tsunami. The immediate origin of th…
Election 2017
This essay dissects the 2017 UK General Election and its implications for relationships within and between its constituent territories
The Making of the President, 2016–17
This essay situates Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 US presidential election against a background of US political history. It considers the style and themes of the Presidential race and poses the question: to what extent did the gender of Donald Trump's opponent shape his victory
Obituary
Eberhard ‘Paddy’ Bort served as Reviews Editor of Scottish Affairs from 2000 to his unexpected death in early 2017. This obituary outlines the unique contribution Paddy made to Scotland's intellectual and cultural life
A Case of Identity
This article utilises friendship as an analytical category to interpret the debate between Novanglus and Massachusettensis in 1774-75, demonstrating how the friendship of John Adams and Jonathan Sewall informed political discourse and Adams's radicalization, and validating Adams's presumption of Sewall's coauthorship of Massachusettensis with Daniel Leonard
And All This – The Education (Scotland) Act then and now
On the centenary of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1918, this essay offers personal reflections on its immediate impact and longer term legacies upon Scottish Catholicism. A century of Catholic state schools in Scotland has evolved very different Catholics – and a very different Scotland
The Blyton Brexit parodies
This essay uses Bruno Vincent's Five Brexit parodies to unpick Enid Blyton's wider legacy in British culture, and to understand our contemporary politics
Killing Scottish Toryism
This essay dissects the early premiership of Mr Boris Johnson with particular focus on his impact upon the Scottish Conservatives, and upon his biography of a previous Conservative Prime Minister: The Churchill Factor – How One Man Made History
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