Dr. Carla King

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Contact Details

Office : D307, Department of History, St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, Ireland.

E-mail : Carla.King@spd.dcu.ie

Phone: +353 1 884 2103

Fax: +353 1 8376197

Dr Carla King lectures on American history before the Civil War, Russian history, 1801-1929, Modern Europe and Women in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ireland. She has published extensively on nineteenth-century Ireland.
Her current research interests include:

• A biography of the later life of Michael Davitt
• The ideas and career of Horace Plunkett
• The land question in nineteenth-century Ireland
• Late Victorian Irish fiction.

Her eight-volume edition, Michael Davitt: Collected Writings, 1868-1906 was published in 2001. She has since edited a collection of contemporary accounts of Davitt in Pickering and Chatto’s Lives of Victorian Political Figures series and edited three ‘Classics in Irish History’ for University College Dublin Press. She is at present preparing a biography of Davitt’s later life and a detailed list of the Davitt papers in Trinity College Dublin Manuscripts Library.

Recent Publications:

• Michael Davitt: from the Gaelic American, by John Devoy, edited by Carla King and W.J. Mc Cormack (University College Dublin Press, 2008)
• ‘“A new world full of youthful hopes and promise”: Michael Davitt in Australia, 1895’, in Laurence Geary and Andrew McCarthy (eds), Ireland, Australia and New Zealand: Aspects of History, Politics and Culture (Irish Academic Press, 2008), ch. 13, pp 185-98.
• Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part II, vol. 4: Michael Davitt (Pickering & Chatto, London, 2007)
• ‘The early years of the College, 1875-1921,’ in James Kelly (ed.), The History of St Patrick’s College (Four Courts Press, 2006), pp 91-129
• [With Neil McCaw] ‘Some late Victorian fiction and the Irish land question,’ in Neil McCaw (ed.), Writing Irishness in Nineteenth-Century British Culture (Ashgate, 2004) pp 210-27
• ‘Michael Davitt: Irish nationalism and the British Empire,’ in Peter Gray (ed.), Victoria’s Ireland? Irishness and Britishness, 1837-1901 (Four Courts, 2004), pp 116-30
• Parnell and his Island, by George Moore, ed. Carla King (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2004)
• Jottings in Solitary, by Michael Davitt, ed. Carla King (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2003)
• Michael Davitt: Collected Writings, 1868-1906 (8 vols), (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2001)
• ‘Defenders of the Union: Horace Plunkett,’ in Alan O’Day and D. George Boyce (eds), Defenders of the Union. A Survey of British and Irish Unionism since 1801 (Routledge, London & New York, 2001), pp 137-58
• Famine, Land and Culture in Ireland (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2000)