David George Boyce (1942–2020), also known as George Boyce,[1] was a Northern Irish historian who specialised in Irish history.
David George Boyce | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1942 (age 83–84) |
| Died | 2020 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Lurgan College |
| Alma mater | Queen's University Belfast |
| Thesis | British public opinion and government policy in Ireland, 1918-1922 (1969) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | Irish history |
| Institutions | Swansea University |
He was educated at Lurgan College in County Armagh and at Queen's University Belfast. He worked in the Department of Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library in Oxford until 1971.[2] From 1971 until 2004 he was a lecturer in the Department of Politics and International relations at Swansea University. He was also a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[1]
He contributed 15 articles to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.[3]
His death occurred on 17 August 2020. His funeral service was held in Swansea, but his ashes were interred in County Down in 2021.[4]
Books
edit- Englishmen and Irish Troubles: British Public Opinion and the Making of Irish Policy 1918-1922 (1972).
- (editor with James Curran and Pauline Wingate) Newspaper History from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day (1978).
- Nationalism in Ireland (1st ed 1982; 2nd ed 1991; 3rd ed 1995).
- (editor), The Revolution in Ireland, 1879-1923 (1987).
- The Crisis of British Unionism: The Domestic Papers of the Second Earl of Selborne, 1885-1922 (1987).
- The Crisis of British Power: The Imperial and Naval Papers of the Second Earl of Selborne, 1895-1910 (1987).
- Nineteenth-Century Ireland: The Search for Stability (1990).
- (editor), Parnell in Perspective (1991).
- Ireland 1828 - 1923: From Ascendancy to Democracy (1992).
- (editor), Political Thought in Ireland Since the Seventeenth Century (1993).
- The Irish Question and British Politics, 1868-1996 (1996).
- The Making of Modern Irish History (1996).
- Decolonisation and the British Empire 1775-1997 (1999).
- Defenders of the Union: A Survey of British and Irish Unionism Since 1801 (2000).
- (editor), Political Discourse in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Ireland (2001).
- (editor), Problems and Perspectives in Irish History Since 1800 (2004).
- Ireland in Transition, 1867-1921 (2004).
- (editor), The Ulster Crisis: 1885-1921 (2005).
- The Falklands War (2005).
- (editor), Gladstone and Ireland: Politics, Religion and Nationality in the Victorian Age (2011).
Notes
edit- 1 2 Profile at Swansea University
- ↑ Profile at MIT Press
- ↑ Contributor page at the ODNB (subscription required)
- ↑ Walker, Brian M. "David George Boyce: Distinguished historian of Anglo-Irish relations-An appreciation". www.irishtimes.com. Retrieved 25 January 2021.