Dr Yvonne Whelan

BA, HDipEd, PhD (NUI, Dublin)

Contact
office: 2.7 n
tel: +44 (0)117 92 89107
fax: +44 (0)117 928 7878
email: yvonne.whelan@bristol.ac.uk

Research and Teaching Interests
Landscape, Memory and Identity; Urban Historical Geography; Irish Studies

Recent Publications

Books:
Whelan, Y. and Moore, N.M. (eds), Heritage, Memory and the Politics of Identity. New Perspectives on the Cultural Landscape (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2007).

Harte, L. and Whelan, Y. (eds), Ireland Beyond Boundaries: Mapping Irish Studies in the Twenty-First Century (Pluto Press, London, 2007), 274pp.

Harte, L., Whelan, Y. and Crotty, P. (eds), Ireland: Space, Text, Time (Liffey Press, Dublin, 2005), 260pp.

Whelan, Y., Reinventing Modern Dublin. Streetscape, Iconography and the Politics of Identity (UCD Press, Dublin, 2003), 318pp.

Forthcoming:
Whelan, Y. (2009) ‘Conceptualising Heritage’ in Morrissey, J., Strohmayer, U., Whelan, Y. and Yeoh, B. Key Concepts in Historical Geography (Sage, London).

Whelan, Y. (2009) ‘Landscape and Monumentality’ in Morrissey, J., Strohmayer, U., Whelan, Y. and Yeoh, B. Key Concepts in Historical Geography (Sage, London).

Whelan, Y. (2009) ‘Territory and the Power of Place’, in Morrissey, J., Strohmayer, U., Whelan, Y. and Yeoh, B. Key Concepts in Historical Geography (Sage, London).

Whelan, Y. (2009) ‘Performance, Spectacle and Power’, in Morrissey, J., Strohmayer, U., Whelan, Y. and Yeoh, B. Key Concepts in Historical Geography (Sage, London).

Whelan, Y. (2009) ‘Making sense of urban settlement’ in Morrissey, J., Strohmayer, U., Whelan, Y. and Yeoh, B. Key Concepts in Historical Geography (Sage, London).

Whelan, Y. (2009) ‘Geographies of Urban Morphology’ in Morrissey, J., Strohmayer, U., Whelan, Y. and Yeoh, B. Key Concepts in Historical Geography (Sage, London).

Whelan, Y. ‘Politics and Landscape’, in Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History, 1600-2000, ed. Alvin Jackson, (OUP, Oxford, 2009).

Articles & Book Chapters:
Whelan, Y. ‘The Construction and Destruction of a Colonial Landscape: Monuments to British Monarchs in Dublin Before and After Independence’, reprinted in Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations since 1800: Critical Essays, Volume III, eds. N.C. Fleming and Alan O'Day, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008).

Graham, B. and Whelan, Y. (2007) ‘The Legacies of the Dead: Commemorating the Troubles in Northern Ireland’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space , 25, 3, pp 476–495. (DOI).

Whelan, Y. and Harte, L. (2007) ‘Placing Geography in Irish Studies: Symbolic Landscapes of Spectacle and Memory’ in Ireland Beyond Boundaries: Mapping Irish Studies in the Twenty-first Century, eds. L. Harte and Y. Whelan (London: Pluto Press), pp. 175-97.

Whelan, Y. (2005) ‘Procession and Protest: the Visit of Queen Victoria to Ireland, 1900’ in (Dis)Placing Empire: Renegotiating British Colonial Geographies, eds. L. Proudfoot and M. Roche (Aldershot: Ashgate), pp. 99-116.

Whelan, Y. (2005) ‘Mapping Meanings in the Cultural Landscape’ in Senses of Place: Senses of Time, eds. B. Graham and G. Ashworth (Aldershot: Ashgate), pp. 61-72.

Whelan, Y. (2004) ‘Building for Government. Aspects of the Iconography of Dublin after 1922’ in Surveying Ireland's Past. Multi-Disciplinary Essays in Honor of Anngret Simms, eds. H. Clarke, J. Prunty and M. Hennessy (Dublin: Geography Publications), pp 585-612.

Whelan, Y. (2003) ‘Decoding Symbolic Spaces of Dublin: a Photographic Essay’ Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 28:2, pp. 46-73.

Whelan, Y. (2002) ‘The Construction and Destruction of a Colonial Landscape: Commemorating British Monarchs in Dublin Before and after Independence’ Journal of Historical Geography, 28:4, pp. 508-533. (DOI).

Whelan, Y. (2001) ‘Symbolising the state: The iconography of O'Connell Street , Dublin after Independence (1922)’ Irish Geography, 34:2, 2001, pp 135-156.

Whelan, Y. ‘Monuments, power and contested space: the iconography of Sackville Street , Dublin before Independence (1922)’ Irish Geography, 34:1, 2001, pp 11-33.

Administrative Responsibilities:
Course Director, MSc Society and Space
Undergraduate Admissions Officer, Human Geography