Dr. J. (Joost) Augusteijn

Function:
  • Lecturer
Expertise:
  • Modern Irish and British History
  • History of Irish Republicanism
  • History of Political Violence

Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 2763
E-Mail: j.augusteijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for History, Algemene Geschiedenis
Office Address: Johan Huizingagebouw
Doelensteeg 16
2311 VL Leiden
Room number 265A
 
Personal Homepage: www.geschiedenis.leidenuniv.nl/augusteijn
Spreekuur / Hours
Na afspraak / by appointment
Curriculum vitae
Dr. Joost Augusteijn (1960) studied history at the University of Amsterdam where he also obtained his PhD (1994) on the history of the Irish Republican Army. He subsequently worked as Lecturer in Modern Irish History at Trinity College, Dublin (1994-5) and Queen's University, Belfast (1995-2000). Since 2000 he has been Assistant Professor in European History at Leiden University, during which he spent a semester as visiting Associate Professor at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia (2004). 
Major publications
Books and Journals  

From Public Defiance to Guerrilla Warfare. The experience of ordinary Volunteers in the Irish War of Independence (Irish Academic Press, Dublin 1996, 1998), 381p
Edited, The Memoirs of John M. Regan. A Catholic officer in the RIC and RUC, 1909-1948 (Four Courts Press, 2007)
Edited, The Irish Revolution, 1913-1923 (Palgrave, 2002)
Co-edited, Historisch terrorisme. De ervaring met politiek geweld in de moderne tijd. Leidschrift Historisch Tijdschrift 23/1 (2008)
Co-edited, Irish History. A Research Yearbook 1 (Four Courts Press, 2002, 2003)
Co-edited, Irish History. A Research Yearbook 2 (Four Courts Press, 2002, 2003)
Edited, Ireland in the 1930s. New Perspectives (Four Courts Press, 1999), 170p.
Articles and chapters:  

‘Accounting for the Emergence of Violent Activism among Irish Revolutionaries, 1916-1921 Irish Historical Studies Vol.XXXI, No.119 (May 2007)

Ireland and Europe: A Dutch Perspective’ in Radharc: A Journal of Irish and Irish-American Studies Vol.5-7 (2004-2006)

‘Why was Tipperary so Active in the War of Independence?’, in TipperaryHistorical Journal 2006

‘Van “Redders der Beschaving” tot “Keltische Tijger”. Ierland en Europa’, in I. Goddeeris (ed.), De Europese Periferie (Leuven, 2004)

‘Political Violence and Democracy. An analysis of the tensions within Irish republican strategy, 1914-2002’, Irish Political Studies (2003)

‘Industrialisatie, Urbanisatie en de Ieren. Het publieke debat over de sociale kwestie in Engeland, 1830-50, Leidschrift 18/2 (2003)

‘Why did they Fight for Ireland? The motivation of ordinary Volunteers’, in J. Augusteijn (ed.), The Irish Revolution, 1913-1923 (Palgrave, 2002)

‘Teaching and Researching Irish History in Northern Ireland: A Personal View’, in European Review of History 9/1 (2002), pp. 101-11