Staff Profiles

Dr Fergus Campbell is Reader in Social and Cultural History. He was educated at St Margaret Mary's school, Carlisle, the Newman school, Carlisle and at the universities of Oxford and Bristol, and has lectured in both British and Irish history at the Queen's University, Belfast, and the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His research focuses on Irish social, cultural and political history between the Great Famine (1845-9) and the Celtic Tiger (1994-2004), and he has written three books and a number of articles on various aspects of modern Irish history. My current work is on the history of psychoanalysis in Britain and Ireland c. 1914-to the present; and I have recently published 'Freud in Dublin? The formation of psychoanalysis in Ireland, c. 1928-1993' in History Workshop Journal, 95, Spring 2023, pp. 101-130. 

My research is on the history of psychoanalysis in Britain and Ireland, and I will update this page with further information soon.

My teaching:

History lab 1 (HIS 1102), module leader

Famines in History (HIS 3026), module leader

Research project in English and History (SEL 2218) co-teaching with Rosalind Haslitt

The Irish Revolution, 1879-1923 (HIS 3206), module leader

Crafting History (HIS 2306), module leader

Writing History (HIS 3020) supervising 10 dissertations

• Articles

  • Campbell F. Freud in Dublin? The Formation of Psychoanalysis in Ireland, c.1928-1993. History Workshop Journal 2023, 95, 101-130.
  • Campbell F. Freud in Dublin? The formation of psychoanalysis in Ireland, c. 1928-1993. History Workshop Journal 2023, 95(Spring 2023), 101-130.
  • Campbell F. Land purchase and radicalisation in county Galway, c.1881-1931. Irish Studies Review 2020, 28(1), 20-42.
  • Campbell F. “Killing time” in rural Ireland, c.1881–2013. Irish Studies Review 2013, 21(3), 274-292.
  • Campbell F. Who ruled Ireland? The Irish administration, 1879-1914. Historical Journal 2007, 50(3), 623-644.
  • Campbell F. The Social Dynamics of Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland 1898-1918. Past & Present 2004, 182(1), 175-209.
  • Campbell F. 'The last land war'? Kevin O'Shiel's memoir of the Irish Revolution (1916-1921). Archivium Hibernicum 2003, LVII, 155-200.
  • Campbell FJM. Irish popular politics and the making of the Wyndham Land Act, 1901-1903. Historical Journal 2002, 45(4), 755-773.

• Authored Books

  • Campbell F. The Irish Establishment, 1879-1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
  • Campbell F. Land and Revolution : Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland 1891-1921. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2005.

• Edited Book

  • Campbell F, Varley T, ed. Land, Politics and the State: New and Comparative Perspectives on the Irish Land Question. 2013. In Press.