Emmanuel Destenay (FRHistS)

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Chercheur - Chercheure

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Chercheur - Chercheure partenaire

Institution :

Paris 4

Présentation :

Emmanuel Destenay received his PhD in Contemporary History from Sorbonne University in 2014. His doctoral research was funded by the Institute for Strategic Research of the French Ministry of Defence and examined the experiences of demobilisation of Irish veterans of the First World War. His thesis received the 2015 PhD Prize from the Irish Foundation of France. He held Research Fellowships at Oxford University (2011-2012), Stanford University (2015), and University College Dublin (2016-2019).

As part of the Irish Research Council (IRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship, he organised an international conference on Post-War Transitions in Europe: Politics, States and Veterans (1918-1939) at University College Dublin. It received funding from the Irish Research Council and the Embassy for France in Ireland. He also organised an international conference on Ireland, the First World War and the Irish Revolution. Continuities, Ruptures and Legacies at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris. It received financial support from the Embassy from Ireland in Paris.

He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a fully-qualified teacher in English, French and History. He has received several awards from professional achievements (2015, 2016) and a Students' Teaching Award (2015) from Exeter University.

He has written several articles in international refereed journals. His most recent articles appeared in the Journal for British Studies, Modern American History and Rural History. Economy, Society, Culture.

His first monograph entitled Shadows from the Trenches. Veterans of the Great War and the Irish Revolution (1918-1923) was published by University College Dublin Press (2021). Thanks to this first single-authored book, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) in 2021 and rewarded with a Honorable mention (James S. Donnelly, Sr., Prize for Books in Humanities and Social Sciences) at the annual American Conference for Irish Studies in 2022. His second monograph Divergent Destinies. Conscription, US Intervention and the Transformation of Ireland (1914-1918) appeared in 2022 with Bloomsbury Academic.

His third monograph examines American humanitarian intervention in France during the First World War.

Actualités

Actualités du membre dans l'agenda de l'UMR SIRICE

27

Wednesday

April 2022

Autre

Shadows from the Trenches

Lieu :

Centre Culturel Irlandais de Paris

27

Thursday

June 2019

Colloque / journée d'étude en France

Ireland, the Revolution and the First World War. Continuities, Ruptures and Legacies (1913-1919)

Lieu :

Centre Culturel Irlandais

28

Thursday to Saturday

March 2019

Colloque / journée d'étude en France

Post-War Transitions in Europe: Politics, States and Veterans (1918-1923)

Lieu :

University College Dublin

Publications

Erin Kate Scheopner. ‘Miserable Conflict and Confusion’. The Irish Question and the British National Press, 1916-1922. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022. Book review in Journal of British Studies

"Children Saving Children: Humanitarianism, World War I and American Childhood", Modern American History (6), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp.

"Future Directions in Rural History: Ireland, the First World War, and the Search for Historical Evidence", Rural History. Economy, Society, Culture, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp.

Richard S. Grayson (ed.), The First World War Diary of Noël Drury, 6th Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Gallipoli, Salonika, The Middle East and the Western Front, Boydell Press, 2022, 323 pp. Book review in Irish Historical Studies

Francis M. Carroll. America and the Making of an Independent Ireland. A History. New York: New York University Press, 2021. Pp xii, 312. Cloth $35.00. Book review in American Historical Review , Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, pp.

Conscription, US Intervention and the Transformation of Ireland (1914-1918), London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 272 pp.

Maartje Abbenhuis and Ismee Tames. Global War, Global Catastrophe. Neutrals, Belligerents and the Transformation of the First World War. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. ix + 249 pp. £65.00 (hardback). Book review in Journal of Military History (86), no. 3, 2022, pp. 727-729.

« L’espoir et la peur. Première Guerre mondiale, conscription et révolution irlandaise (1916-1918) », Revue d’Histoire moderne et contemporaine (69), Paris, Belin, 2022, pp. 5-22.

Niamh Gallagher, Ireland and the Great War. A Social and Political History. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. xvii + 258 xvii pp. £85.00 (hardback). Book review in Twentieth Century British History, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 460-462.

François Cochet (ed.). Les guerres des années folles (1919-1923). Paris: Passés Composés, 2021, 399 p. Book review in Revue historique (703), 2022, pp. 729-732.

"Conscription, Rural Populations and the Dynamics of War and Revolution in Ireland (1914-1918), Rural History. Economy, Society, Culture (33), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 105-117.

"Nobody’s Children? Political Responses to the Homecoming of WW1 Troops in Northern and Southern Ireland (1918-1928)", Journal of British Studies (60), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 632-657.

Shadows from the Trenches. Veterans of the Great War and the Irish Revolution (1918-1923), Dublin, University College Dublin Press, 2021, 250 pp.

1916-1918: la grande peur de la conscription en Irlande, L'Histoire (479), 2021.

Timothy Bowman, William Butler and Michael Wheatley (eds). The Disparity of Sacrifice. Irish Recruitment to the British Armed Forces, 1914-1918. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. Pp. 312. £85.00 (cloth). Book review in Journal of British Studies (60), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 478-479.

« L’Irlande est à Paris et elle frappe à la porte! » Les revendications indépendantistes irlandaises et la Conférence de la Paix (janvier-juin 1919), 20 & 21 Revue d’Histoire (147), Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2020, pp. 17-29.

« Allégeances et transferts de loyauté : la contribution des anciens combattants irlandais de la Première Guerre mondiale à la guerre d’indépendance (1919-1921) », 20 & 21 Revue d'Histoire (142), Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2019, pp. 61-74.

La légende noire de l'IRA: entre historiographie "révisionniste" et mythologie unioniste, Revue historique (690), Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2019, pp. 405-425.

"Pâques 1916: lettres de soldats", L'Histoire (455), 2019, p. 48.

« The impact of political unrest in Ireland on Irish soldiers of the British army, 1914-1918: a re-evaluation », Irish Historical Studies (161), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp. 50-63.

« Les anciens combattants irlandais de la Première Guerre mondiale : une communauté martyrisée ? », Vingtième Siècle (136), Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2017, pp. 43-56.

« Une mémoire contrariée. Pratiques commémoratives et rituels du souvenir de la Première Guerre mondiale en Irlande du Nord et en Irlande du Sud, 1918-1932 », Histoire, Économie et Société (36), Paris, Armand Colin, 2017, pp. 142-157.

« La captivité des prisonniers de guerre irlandais dans les camps allemands : répressions, résistances et transferts de loyauté », Revue historique (678), Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2016, pp. 59-80.

« Les combattants irlandais face au soulèvement de Dublin du 24 avril 1916 », Guerres Mondiales et Conflits Contemporains (256), Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2014, pp. 131-147.

Enseignement

Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (2022-2023): English (Level 3 & 4)

Université de Nanterre (2022-2023): English Law (L2)

Université de Picardie Jules Verne (2019-2021): English Law (L1 & L2), Business English (L3)

University College Dublin (2018-2019): The First World War and the Irish Revolution (1st Year), France: Politics, Power and Protest (1789-1958) (3rd Year)

Exeter University (2015-2016): Understanding the Modern World (1789-1990) (1st Year), Doing History: Perspectives on Sources (2nd Year), The Great War: A Comparative History (3rd Year)

Exeter University (2012-2016): 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Years classes in French (translation, grammar, written and oral expression)

Oxford University (2011-2012): 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Years classes in French (translation, grammar, written and oral expression)

University College London (2010-2011): 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Years classes in French (translation, grammar, written and oral expression)

Média & expertise

L'espoir et la peur: conscription et révolution en Irlande (1916-1918)
Type d'intervention : Autre
Date : Friday 29 January 2021

How Great War Veterans Helped the Irish Revolution
Type d'intervention : Web
Date : Monday 11 February 2019

Pâques 1916: lettres de soldats
Type d'intervention : Autre
Date : Monday 14 January 2019

The radicalisation of Irish politics and the war-time experiences of front-line troops, 1916-1918
Type d'intervention : Web
Date : Wednesday 18 July 2018

L'entrée en guerre des engagés volontaires irlandais
Type d'intervention : Web
Date : Wednesday 01 October 2014

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