James S. Donnelly Jr.
James S. Donnelly Jr. is emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he specialised in nineteenth-century Irish history. He is a leading figure in the field of Irish studies in North America. Donnelly is a former president of the American Conference for Irish Studies, and a current co-editor of the journal Éire-Ireland. He earned degrees from Fordham University and Harvard University.
His research on An Gorta Mór made him a well-known historian in the debate on whether The Great Hunger was genocide or not.
He has cooperated with Dr. Andy Bielenberg of University College Cork in compiling a digital profile of casualties in Cork during the Irish War of Independence.
Publications
- Captain Rock: The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821-1824..
- Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture., editor.
- The Great Irish Potato Famine..
- Irish Popular Culture 1650-1850., co-edited with Kerby A. Miller.
- Irish Peasants: Violence & Political Unrest, 1780-1914., co-edited with Samuel Clark.
- The Land and the People of Nineteenth-Century Cork: The Rural Economy and Land Question. 1975
- Landlord and Tenant in Nineteenth-Century Ireland..