Late-Modern Europe, 18th-20th centuries
Memory Studies
Oral History and Oral Traditions
Folklore and Folklife
Public History
Historiography
Irish Studies (history, folklore, literature, drama, poetry, cinema, music, art, politics, anthropology)
Modern British History
Central European History (nineteenth and twentieth centuries)
Legacy of the First World War
History of Terrorism
‘Spanish’ Influenza Pandemic
Fin de Siècle (cultural history)

Authored books:

Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster (Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York, 2018). 709 pp.

Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory (University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, 2007, paperback edn 2009). 466 pp.

Select Recent chapter and articles:

Guy Beiner, ‘A Short History of Irish Memory in the Long Twentieth Century’ in Thomas Bartlett (ed.), The Cambridge History of Ireland (Cambridge and New York, 2018), vol. 4: Modern Ireland, 1880-2016, pp 708-25.

The Formation of Modern Irish Memory, C.1740–1914’ in Eugenio F. Biagini and Mary E. Daly (eds.), The Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland (Cambridge, 2017), pp 586-93.

‘Locating Local Tradition: The Sociocultural Construction of Irish Folk History’ in Diarmuid Ó Giolláin (ed.), Irish Ethnologies (Notre Dame, Indiana, 2017), pp 158-77.

The Enigma of “Roddy McCorley Goes to Die”: Forgetting and Remembering a Local Rebel Hero in Ulster’ in Éva Guillorel, David Hopkin and William G. Pooley (eds.), Rhythms of Revolt: European Traditions and Memories of Social Conflict in Oral Culture (London and New York, 2017), pp 327-57.

‘Troubles with Remembering; or, the Seven Sins of Memory Studies’ in Dublin Review of Books, no. 94 (2017), online.

‘Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Disremembering’ in Marguérite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack and Ruud van den Beuken (eds.), Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory: Transitions and Transformations (Oxford and Bern, 2017), pp 297-321.

‘Severed Heads and Floggings: The Undermining of Oblivion in Ulster in the Aftermath of 1798’ in Fionnuala Dillane, Naomi McAreavey and Emilie Pine (eds.), The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture (Houndmills and New York, 2016), pp 77-97.

Making Sense of Memory: Coming to Terms with Conceptualisations of Historical Remembrance’ in Richard S. Grayson and Fearghal McGarry (eds.), Remembering 1916: The Easter Rising, the Somme and the Politics of Memory in Ireland (Cambridge, 2016), pp 13-23.

Guy Beiner, ‘Probing the Boundaries of Irish Memory: From Postmemory to Prememory and Back’ in Irish Historical Studies, 39, no. 154 (2014), pp 296-307.

Guy Beiner, ‘Fenianism and the Martyrdom-Terrorism Nexus in Ireland before Independence’ in Dominic Janes and Alex Houen (eds.), Martyrdom and Terrorism: Pre-Modern to Contemporary Perspectives (Oxford and New York, 2014), pp 199-220.

BA Magna cum laude, Tel Aviv University

PhD, National University of Ireland, University College Dublin

An Introduction to the Late-Modern Era, 1789-1989; survey course
Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914; survey course
Iconic Events in Contemporary History, 1914-2001; survey course
Anxieties and Expectations circa 1900: Cultural and Intellectual History of the European fin de siècle; advanced elective course
Spirit of the Nation: Cultural Nationalism in Europe; advanced elective course
The Modern State and Violent Outlaws: Terrorists, Freedom Fighters or Criminals? advanced elective course
The War to End All Wars: A Global History of the First World War; advanced elective course
Memory of World War I; advanced elective course
The Great War on the Big Screen: Cinematic Representations of the First World War; advanced elective course
Voices of the Past: Oral History - Theory and Practice; advanced elective course
The Anglo-Irish Problem, 1798-1998; advanced elective course
Observe the Sons of Ulster: An Interdisciplinary Examination of the Northern Irish Conflict from Multiple Perspectives; advanced elective course
A Day in History and Memory: Bloody Sunday, 1972-2010; advanced elective course
Between the Orange and Green: Nineteenth-Century Ireland; advanced elective course.
The Two Irelands: Ireland and Northern Ireland in the Twentieth century; advanced course.
Commemoration Fever: History, Memory and Commemoration in Contemporary Ireland; advanced elective course
Memory in Modern European History; seminar
History, Memory, Forgetting; seminar
The Centenary of the Great War: From History to Heritage; seminar
The Great Influenza Pandemic: History, Forgetting and Memory; seminar

Graduate
Listening to the Past: Oral History and Oral Tradition; seminar
Personal Testimony: Examining the Twentieth Century through Oral History; seminar
Rebellion and Union: from United Irishmen to United Kingdom, 1798-1803; seminar
Deep Troubles: Cultural History of the Northern Irish conflict; seminar
Memory and Forgetting in Late-Modern Europe; seminar
The Great War, a Centennial Perspective: Historiography and Memory; seminar
Mortal Fear: A History of Terrorism; seminar
History is Not What it Used to Be: Methods for Researching and Writing History; seminar
Victorian and Edwardian Politics; supervised reading
Theories of Nationalism; supervised reading
Theories of Memory Studies; supervised reading

Government of Ireland Doctoral Scholar, University College Dublin (2000-2001)
Government of Ireland Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin (2001-2003)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame (2005-2006)
Government of Hungary Scholars, Pasts Inc. Center for Historical Studies, Central European University (2011-2012 )
Marie Curie Gerda Henkel Fellow, Faculty of History, University of Oxford (2012-2014)
Burns Scholar, Boston College (2019-2020)