Associate Professor Rodney Sullivan
Conference Papers
Sullivan, Rodney and Sullivan, Robin (2021).Writing Women into the History of the Queensland Irish Association, 1898-2020: Challenges, Culture and Contributors. Paper presented to the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, 10 March 2021, Brisbane.
Sullivan, Rodney and Sullivan, Robin (2020). Irishness on Parade: St Patrick’s Day in Brisbane 1885-2019’. Paper presented to the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, 11 March 2020, Brisbane
Sullivan, Rodney and Sullivan, Robin (2020). Irish Catholic Memorials in Southeast Queensland. Paper presented to the Brisbane Catholic Historical Society, 30 June 2020, Brisbane.
Sullivan, Rodney and Sullivan, Robin (2019). Women are not permitted to enter here: Gender and the Queensland Irish Association, 1898-2018. Paper presented at the 24th Australasian Irish Studies Conference, The Antipodes and Beyond: Foregrounding Irish Women, Flinders University, 10-12 December 2019, Adelaide.
Sullivan, Rodney and Sullivan, Robin (2019). Contested Memory in an Eponymous City: The Robert Towns Statue in Townsville. Paper presented at the Third Annual Memory Studies Association Conference, 25-28 June 2019, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain.
Sullivan, Rodney and Sullivan, Robin (2018). Irish Symbols in Warwick, 1870-1917. Paper presented at the 23rd Australasian Irish Studies Conference, Myth and Memory, 27-30 November 2018, University of Sydney.
Sullivan, Rodney and Sullivan, Robin (2018). Commemoration and Suppressed History: An Irish-Australian Case Study. Paper presented to the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, Environments of Irish Studies, 20 June 2018, University College, Cork, Ireland.
Sullivan, Rodney and Sullivan, Robin (2018). Memorialising Irish Australians in Southeast Queensland, 1872-2017. Paper delivered to The Royal Historical Society of Queensland, 14 March 2018, Brisbane.
Sullivan, Rodney and Sullivan, Robin (2017). Before the Egg: The Irish in Warwick to 1917. Presentation to Dissent! Treason! Flying Eggs! A Commemorative Public History Event, 18 November 2017, Warwick.
Sullivan, Rodney and Sullivan, Robin (2017). Monuments and Diasporic Memory in Southeast Queensland, an Australian case study. Paper presented to the 1st International Congress, The Global Irish Diaspora, 15th – 19th August 2017, University College Dublin, Ireland.
Sullivan, Rodney and Sullivan, Robin (2016). “Let the damn Protestants do the enlisting’’, The TC Beirne Libel Case in Brisbane, 1916-1917. Paper delivered to the 22nd Australasian Irish Studies Conference, 29 November-2 December 2016, Flinders University, Adelaide.
Sullivan, Rodney and Sullivan, Robin (2016). The Easter Rising: Reverberations in Brisbane. Paper delivered to The 1916 Easter Rising: Australasian Perspectives, 8 April 2016, Newman College, University of Melbourne.
Sullivan, Rodney and Sullivan, Robin (2016). From Robert Atkin to Ned Hanlon: Memorialising Irish Australians in Brisbane, 1872-1955. Paper delivered to The Royal Historical Society of Queensland, 9 March 2016, Brisbane.
Sullivan, Rodney and Sullivan, Robin (2015). Monumental Messages: Irish-Australians in Brisbane, 1872-1928. Paper presented at 21st Australasian Irish Studies Conference, Ireland’s Others: Diversity in History and Culture, 18-20 June 2015, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland.
Sullivan, Rodney and Sullivan, Robin (2014). Sectarianism versus Inclusion: The Brisbane Irish Community, 1896-1928. Paper presented at Conflict in History, The Australian Historical Association 33rd Annual Conference, 7-11 July 2014, The University of Queensland, Brisbane.
Sullivan, Rodney and Sullivan, Robin (2013). “Brisbane’s Most Brilliant Club”? The Queensland Irish Association, 1898-1928. Paper delivered to The Ends of Ireland conference of the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 6 December 2013, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Sullivan, Rodney and Sullivan, Robin (2013). From O’Doherty to O’Shea: The Queensland Irish Association and its History to 1910. Presentation to the Queensland Irish Association, 22 November 2013, Tara House, Brisbane.
Book Review
Sullivan, Rodney (2019). The Gulf Country: The Story of People and Place in Outback Queensland. By Richard J. Martin (Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 2019), pp.i-xiii +194. One map, twenty-six photographs, Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 65 (3) (2019), pp. 484-485.
Creative Works
Sullivan, Rodney and Sullivan, Robin (2018). Script for Speeches from the Dock: Historically Significant Speeches by Key People in Irish and Australian History, A Queensland Irish Association production in conjunction with The Queensland Supreme Court Library, 28 November 2018, Banco Court of the Supreme Court of Queensland, Brisbane.