Barry Kennerk

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Barry Kennerk (born 1976) is an Irish historian and teacher of English and history at Belvedere College, Dublin.. He has written several books on the subject of Irish history and he graduated from Dublin City University with a PhD in 2014.

Career

Barry Kennerk teaches English and history at Belvedere College, Dublin. He is also archivist and historian for Temple Street Children's University Hospital. . In 2012, he wrote the critically acclaimed Moore Street - The Story of Dublin's Market District (Mercier Press). The book was the first to chart the history of the capital city's oldest market area, including almost two centuries of trading on Moore Street. In January 2013, Kennerk was invited to meet President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, in recognition of that work and the publication was subsequently described by Lord Mayor of Dublin, Nial Ring, as a 'landmark' book. .

In an interview with the Irish Independent in February 2013, Kennerk expressed his hope for the future of the market: "In an ideal world", he said, "a 1916 commemorative centre on the street would help breathe life into it again. The stalls probably need to become a little more up-market and trading laws need to be amended for it to survive. But we should all hope it does – because a Dublin without the cries of Moore Street stall-holders would be a poorer place." .

Kennerk is also the author of Shadow of the Brotherhood - The Temple Bar Shootings (Mercier Press, 2010) and Temple Street Children's Hospital - An Illustrated History (New Island, 2014). He has written several peer-reviewed journal articles and he has presented papers at conferences in Spain, the UK, Canada and Australia.

International Controversy

In March 2016, Kennerk published an Op. Ed article in the New York Times in which he stated his belief that Irish identity needed to be created, in part, during the years prior to national independence in 1922. . The article drew a heated response from the Irish American community. Given the opportunity to respond to his critics on Irish Central, Kennerk subsequently stated: "Many of those who have posted comments thus far have missed the whole point by conflating two wholly separate concepts: British culture and Empire, which are by no means synonymous ideas...young English soldiers returning to coal-mining districts after the Boer War had their weapons taken away for fear that they would rise in arms against the pit bosses. Likewise, the Treason Felony Act, so often touted as a singularly anti-Irish piece of legislation, saw scores of working class English Chartists exiled to Australia." .

Later that year, as keynote speaker at a conference in Fort Erie, Canada, Kennerk once again spoke about the difficulties of historical commemoration; particularly in an Irish context. . In August 2018, he revisited the problem of commemorative history in an Irish Times feature; specifically with reference to the Hanging Rock Museum at Woodend, Melbourne. In the piece, he queried the remembrance of fictitious school girls instead of the real treatment meted out to local aboriginal peoples during the nineteenth century.

Commemorative Events

To date, Barry Kennerk has commissioned two commemorative plaques in Dublin City. The first of these was erected at the junction of Eustace Street and Essex Street to the memory of Constables Patrick Keena and Stephen Kelly; two members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police who were shot on duty in the Temple Bar area on 31 October 1867. . Speaking at its unveiling in September 2010, the Lord Mayor of Dublin said that ‘not only does the plaque which Mr Kennerk has commissioned contribute in a very significant way to the history of Temple Bar; it also complements the 1905 Burgh Quay monument erected to the memory of Constable Patrick Sheehan. In the wake of recent events to honour our Irish First World War dead, it is wholly appropriate that we call to mind other forgotten countrymen and women - none of whom are any less worthy of remembrance.’ .

In November 2012, Kennerk commissioned a second plaque in his capacity as archivist and historian for Temple Street Children's Hospital. The plaque is sited at No. 9, Upper Buckingham Street, original home of the hospital and was erected to commemorate the institution's 140th birthday. .

Bibliography

• Tales from a Peeler’s Notebook (Mercier Press, forthcoming).
• ‘War on our Doorstep: Temple Street Hospital in the 1916 Rising’, chapter in Medicine, Health and Irish Experiences of Conflict, 1914-45 (Manchester University Press, 2016)ISBN 9780719097850 Search this book on ..
• Temple Street Children’s Hospital – An Illustrated History (New Island Books, 2014) ISBN 9781848403895 Search this book on ..
• Moore Street – The Story of Dublin’s Market District (Mercier Press, 2012)ISBN 9781856359962 Search this book on ..
• Shadow of the Brotherhood – The Temple Bar Shootings (Mercier Press, 2010) ISBN 9781856356770 Search this book on ..
• The Railway House – Tales from an Irish Fireside (Appletree Press, 2008) ISBN 1847580890 Search this book on ..

• ‘Educating sick children: An Irish hospital school in context, 1900-1980’ in History of Education (Forthcoming).
• ‘Adams Andrew McConnell, 1884-1972: Pioneer of Irish Neurosurgery’, co-authored with Dr John C. Duddy, British Journal of Neurosurgery, vol. xxix, no. 1 (February 2015), pp.4-8.
• ‘Catholic Unionism and Heterodoxy in Irish Victorian Medicine: A Biography of Thomas More Madden, 1838-1902’ in Journal of Medical Biography (Spring 2014).
• ‘A House in the Barley Fields – Nos. 14 and 15 Upper Temple Street before the Act of Union’ in Georgian Group Journal (Spring 2013), pp.217-222.
• ‘Ghosts of Little Denmark Street’ in Dublin Historical Record, vol. lxv, no. 1 (Spring/autumn 2012), pp. 74-85.
• ‘In Danger and Distress: Presentation of gunshot cases to Dublin Hospitals during the height of Fenianism, 1866-1871’ in Oxford Journal’s Social History of Medicine, vol. xxiv, no. 3 (December 2011), pp. 588-607.
• ‘A Dublin Consul under Siege: American reactions to the Habeas Corpus Suspension crisis of 1866-1868’ in Dublin Historical Record, vol. lxiii, no. 1 (Spring 2010), pp.18-27.

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