Dr Jeff Kildea

Dr Jeff Kildea

Honorary Professor
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Humanities & Languages

Jeff Kildea was educated at the University of Sydney, where he gained a BA, LLB and LLM, and at the University of New South Wales, where he received a MA in History and was awarded a PhD for his thesis on sectarianism in early 20th-century Australia.

He practised law as a solicitor (1974-1979) and barrister (1979-2013). After receiving his PhD he taught Irish and Australian history at the University of New South Wales (2004-2005, 2014) and at Sydney University’s Centre for Continuing Educa...

E-mail
j.kildea@unsw.edu.au
Location
Morven Brown Building
  • Books | 2021
    Kildea J, 2021, Leaving Home Stories of My Emigrant Ancestors
    Books | 2020
    Kildea J, 2020, Hugh Mahon Patriot, Pressman, Politician, Volume 2, Politician: the Years From 1901-1931
    Books | 2020
    Reid R; Kildea J; McIntyre P, 2020, To Foster an Irish Spirit The Irish National Association of Australasia 1915-2015
    Books | 2017
    Kildea JF, 2017, Hugh Mahon: Patriot, Pressman, Politician, Volume 1 Patriot and Pressman: the years from 1857 to 1901, Anchor Books Australia, Melbourne
    Books | 2008
    Kildea J, 2008, Wartime Australians: Billy Hughes, Australian Government, Department of Veterans' Affairs, http://www.dva.gov.au/commems_oawg/commemorations/history_research/Pages/Publications.aspx
    Books | 2007
    Kildea J, 2007, Anzacs and Ireland, University of New South Wales, Sydney, http://www.unswpress.com/
    Books | 2002
    Kildea JF, 2002, Tearing the Fabric: Sectarianism in Australia 1910-1925, Citadel Books, Sydney, http://jeffkildea.com/
  • Book Chapters | 2024
    Kildea J, 2024, 'More Than Mannix: Irish-Australian Women Who Helped Defeat Conscription in WW1', in Arthure S; James S; Lonergan D; McCorry F (ed.), Irish Women in the Antipodes Foregrounded, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, pp. 258 - 273, https://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/product/irish-women-in-the-antipodes/
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Kildea J, 2020, '"The Empire Strikes Back": Anzacs and the Easter Rising 1916', in New Zealand's Responses to the 1916 Rising
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Kildea J, 2018, 'Securing Public Safety and the Defence of the Commonwealth? The Detention of Australia’s Irish Radicals during the First World War', in Fír Fesso A Festschrift for Neil Mcleod
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Kildea JF, 2015, '"A veritable hurricane of sectarianism": the year 1920 and ethno-religious conflict in Australia', in Religion and Greater Ireland Christianity and Irish Global Networks, 1750-1950, McGill-Queens University Press, pp. 363 - 382
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Kildea J, 2024, 'Liberty not Licence: The Hyde Park Riots of 1878', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 110, pp. 120 - 140
    Journal articles | 2024
    Kildea J, 2024, 'Liberty not licence: The law's response to the challenges of ethno-religious sectarianism in nineteenth and early twentieth century Australia', Australian Bar Review, pp. 16 - 32
    Journal articles | 2024
    Kildea J, 2024, 'Review of Cases for Opinion: A Bicentennial Miscellany', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 110, pp. 107 - 108
    Journal articles | 2024
    Kildea J, 2024, 'Sectarian Rioting in Australia', Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, 45, pp. 51 - 69
    Journal articles | 2023
    Kildea J, 2023, 'Conscription, US intervention and the transformation of Ireland, 1914-1918: divergent destinies', First World War Studies, 14, pp. 178 - 180, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19475020.2023.2229667
    Journal articles | 2023
    Kildea J, 2023, '“The Missing Magdalens”: the ABC resurrects a “hidden story” discredited more than a century ago', Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, 44, pp. 42 - 49, http://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A776585378/EAIM?u=anon~90eb7c0f&sid=sitemap&xid=5ac2227
    Journal articles | 2021
    Kildea J, 2021, 'A Tale of Two Pandemics: The Impact of Spanish Flu and COVID-19 on Religious Observance', The Australasian Catholic Record, 98, pp. 3 - 16
    Journal articles | 2020
    Kildea J, 2020, ''Itinerant Preachers of Sedition’: the Redmond Brothers’Tour of Australia in 1883', Journal of the Federation of Local History Societies, 25, pp. 14 - 22
    Journal articles | 2020
    Kildea J, 2020, 'Hugh Mahon, the Irishman expelled from the Australian parliament', History Ireland, 28, pp. 42 - 45
    Journal articles | 2019
    Kildea J, 2019, 'Absence or amnesia: Was the Golden West really free of “the noxious weed of sectarianism” that blighted early twentieth-century Australia?', Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, 40, pp. 131 - 143
    Journal articles | 2019
    Kildea J, 2019, 'What Price Loyalty? Australian Catholics in the First World War', The Australasian Catholic Record, 96, pp. 25 - 44
    Journal articles | 2018
    Kildea J, 2018, 'Ireland Will Be Free: “Fanning The Flames Of Sectarianism” in Australia 1920-21', Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, 18, pp. 130 - 155
    Journal articles | 2017
    Kildea JF, 2017, 'Killing Conscription: the Easter Rising and Irish Catholic attitudes to the conscription debates in Australia, 1916-1917', Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society
    Journal articles | 2017
    Kildea JF, 2017, 'The Battle of Kosturino: the Irish-Australian connection', Irish Sword
    Journal articles | 2017
    Kildea JF, 2017, '‘We personally had no quarrel with the rioters’: Anzacs in Dublin during the Easter Rising 1916', Irish Sword
    Journal articles | 2015
    Kildea JF, 2015, 'Did the Leinsters Flee At Chunuk Bair?', Reveille, pp. 28 - 30
    Journal articles | 2015
    Kildea JF, 2015, 'Irish Anzacs Project', Reveille, pp. 21 - 23
    Journal articles | 2015
    Kildea JF, 2015, 'The Impact of the First World War on Ireland and Australia', The Irish Sword: the journal of the military history society of lreland, XXX, pp. 177 - 192
    Journal articles | 2015
    Kildea JF, 2015, 'The Irish Anzacs Project', Familia: Ulster Genealogical Review, 31, pp. 33 - 52
    Journal articles | 2015
    Kildea JF, 2015, 'The Irish at Gallipoli', History Ireland, 23, pp. 36 - 39
    Journal articles | 2011
    Kildea JF, 2011, 'Remembering Hugh Mahon', Recorder, http://jeffkildea.com/

Irish Revolution and Australia

Knights of the Southern Cross, Western Australia