William Lowe

Publications

Lowe, W.J., Irish Constabulary Officers, 1837–1922: Profile of a Professional Elite” in Irish Economic and Social History, xxxii (2005) pp. 19-46.

Lowe, W.J., Who were the Black & Tans?” in History Ireland, vol. 12, no. 3 (Autumn 2004), pp. 47-51.

Lowe, W.J., The War Against the R.I.C., 1919-21” in Éire-Ireland, xxxvii, 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2002) pp. 79-117.

Lowe, W.J., The Constabulary Agitation of 1882” in Irish Historical Studies, vol. xxxi, no.121 (May 1998), pp. 37-59.

Lowe, W.J., The Irish Constabulary in the Great Famine” in History Ireland, vol. 5, no. 4 (Winter 1997), pp. 32-37. Reprinted in John Gibney (ed.), The Great Famine (Yorkshire, 2018), pp. 29-36.

Lowe, W.J., Policing Famine Ireland” in Éire-Ireland, xxix, 4 (Winter 1994), pp. 47-67. Reprinted in Ian O’Donnell & Finbarr McAuley (ed.), Criminal Justice History: Themes and Controversies from Pre-Independence Ireland (Dublin, 2003), pp. 156-74.

Lowe, W.J., & Malcolm, E.L., The Domestication of the Royal Irish Constabulary, 1837-1922”, in Irish Economic and Social History, xix (1992), pp. 27-48.

Lowe, W.J., The Irish in Mid-Victorian Lancashire: The Shaping of a Working-Class Community (New York & Bern, 1989).

Lowe, W.J., The Men in the Middle: A Social and Occupational Profile of English and Irish Policemen in 1848” in The Consortium on Revolutionary Europe: Proceedings, 1989, vol. 1 (Athens, GA, 1990), pp. 290-302.

Lowe, W.J., Irish Confederates and Fenians: Radical mobilization among the Irish in Britain, 1848-71” in The Consortium on Revolutionary Europe: Proceedings, 1984 (Athens, GA, 1986), pp. 434-41.

Lowe, W.J., The Chartists and the Irish Confederates: Lancashire, 1848” in Irish Historical Studies, xxiv, no.94 (November 1984) pp. 172-96.

Lowe, W.J., The Lancashire Constabulary, 1845-70: The social and occupational function of a Victorian police force” in Criminal Justice History, iv (1983), pp. 41-62.

Lowe, W.J., Lancashire Fenianism, 1864-71” in Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, cxxvi (1977), pp. 156-85.

Haslett, J. & Lowe, W.J., Household structure and overcrowding among the Lancashire Irish during the mid-nineteenth century” in Histoire Sociale-Social History (Canada), ix, no.19 (May 1977), pp. 45-58.

Lowe, W.J., Social agencies among the Irish in Lancashire during the mid-Nineteenth Century”

in Saothar: Journal of the Irish Labour History Society, iii (1977), pp. 15-20.

Lowe, W.J., The Lancashire Irish and the Catholic Church, 1846-71: The social dimension” in

Irish Historical Studies, xx, no.78 (Sept. 1976), pp. 129-55.

Lowe, W.J., Landlord and tenant on the estate of Trinity College, Dublin, 1850-1903” in

Hermathena: A Dublin University Review, cxx, (Summer 1976), pp. 5-24.

Papers Presented

Policing Revolutionary Ireland: Comment” (Read by David Leeson), North American Conference on British Studies, Denver, CO, November 2011.

Irish Police Careers and Historical Anomalies, 1837-1922: The Case of the Black and Tans”, presented to the Irish Genealogical Society International, Minnesota Genealogical Center, August 2005.

Irish Constabulary Officers, 1837-1922: Profile of a Professional Elite”, presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies annual meeting, University of Liverpool, UK, July 2004

Royal Irish Constabulary Officers, 1879-1922: Respectable Professionals or Establishment Elite?” presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies annual meeting, Fordham University, June 2001.

The War Against the R.I.C., 1919-21” presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies annual meeting, University at Limerick, Ireland, June 2000.

The RIC Agitation of 1882” presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies annual meeting, Southern Illinois University, April 1996.

The Old RIC in the New  Free State: Disbandment and After” presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies annual meeting, Queen’s University, Belfast, June 1995.

Policing Famine Ireland” presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies annual meeting, Villanova University, April 1993.

The Occupational and Social Profile of the Irish Constabulary, 1837-1922” presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies annual meeting, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 1991.

The O’Donnell Lecture: ’Employment of a very desirable and much-needed character’: The Irish Constabulary, 1837-1922”, May 1990, Trinity College, Dublin.

Improving Historical Understanding: The Case of Modern Ireland”, workshop presented for Chicago Public Schools Central High School District, January 1988 & March 1989.

The Men in the Middle: A Social and Occupational Profile of English and Irish Policemen in 1848” presented at the Nineteenth Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, February 1989, Charleston, South Carolina.

Panelist, Post-Famine Politics and Economy”, 23^rd Annual Meeting of the American Committee for Irish Studies, April 1985, Tacoma, Washington.

Irish Confederates and Fenians: Radical mobilization among the Irish in Britain, 1848-71” presented at the Fourteenth Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, Duke University, February 1984.

The Chartists and the Irish Confederates: Lancashire, 1848” presented as part of panel on Working-class Radicalism and the Irish: England, 1815-48, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, December 1982, Washington, D.C.

Colloquium panelist on Ireland under Peel and Grant, 1812-21” by Stanley H. Palmer, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., June 1981.

Irish community life in Lancashire during the mid-nineteenth century” presented at the 17^th Annual Meeting of the American Committee for Irish Studies, April 1979, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.

The Lancashire Constabulary, 1845-70: The social and occupational function of a Victorian police force” presented at the Great Lakes History Conference, April 1978, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The Irish and Nationalism during the 1860s” presented at Boston College, February 1977.

The Irish in Lancashire: Aspects of working-class social history” presented to the Irish Labour History Society, June 1975, University College, Dublin, Ireland.

The Lancashire Irish and the catholic church, 1846-71” presented to the Irish Historical Society, April 1975, University College, Dublin, Ireland.