Dr. J. (Joost) Augusteijn

Position:
  • 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: :hum.staging.leiden.edu/​history/​staff/​augusteijn.html

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), and a year as a fellow-in-residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2010-2011).

Major publications

Books and Journals 

Patrick Pearse. The Making of a Revolutionary (Palgrave, Houdsmills 2010)


From Public Defiance To Guerrilla Warfare (Irish Academic Press, Dublin 1996, 1998), 381p



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:  

‘Getting the IRA to the Table. Ending the Irish War of Independence, 1920-21’ in Klaus Weinhauer and Joerg Requate (eds). Friede und Krieg. Beiträge zur Historischen Friedensforschung (Forthcoming 2011)

‘Patrick Pearse and Ireland’s position in the Empire’, in Robert J. Blyth, Keith Jeffery (eds), The British Empire and its Contested Pasts (Historical Studies XXVI, Dublin 2009), pp. 235-52

‘The Road to Rebellion. The development of Patrick Pearse’s political thought, 1879-1914’, in Roisín Higgins, Regina Uí Chollatáin (Eds.), The Life and After-Life of P.H. Pearse (Dublin 2009), pp. 3-18

‘Politiek geweld en de moderne staat’ in Leidschrift Historisch Tijdschrift 23/1 (2008), pp 7-16

‘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

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