Adam Pole

Adjunct Professor, History

Ph.D. Trinity College, Dublin, 2006
M.A. Queen’s University, 2000
B.A. Queen's University, 1997

Department of History
University of Windsor
Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4

adampole@uwindsor.ca

Research & Teaching Interests

Irish history, history of crime and legal history, social and political violence, European history.

Current Projects

I have recently completed two articles on Victorian Ireland. The first examines how United Kingdom governments perceived Irish criminality in the Victorian period and why this resulted in draconian Irish gun ownership and possession laws. The second examines a form of collective activism by Irish landowners during in the 1870s and 1880s in an attempt to quash a nationalist tenant-farmer agrarian agitation known as the Irish Land War.

I am beginning a new research project which will examine the Irish in the Great Lakes, in particular, Irish communities in the Windsor-Detroit border region during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This study will examine what role the border played in connecting or separating Irish families, businesses, as well as cultural and political organizations.

Selected Publications

“Sheriffs in Victorian Ireland.” Reflections on Law and History, forthcoming 2010, Four Courts Press (Dublin).

Review of The British Monarchy and Ireland: 1800 to the Present (Cambridge, 2007), by James Loughlin. Forthcoming for Canadian Journal of History.

“Sheriffs’ Sales During the Land War.” Irish Historical Studies vol. xxxiv no. 136, November 2005, 386-402.

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