Life
1942- [J. J. Lee]; b. Co. Kerry, son of a member of the Garda Siochána; ed. Gormanstown, Co. Meath;
UCD; Dept. of Finance; proceeded to Institute of European History, Mainz;
afterwards at Peterhouse, Cambridge; appt. to Chair of Mod. History, UUC,
1973; issued Modernisation of Ireland 1848-1918 (1973); also Ireland
1912-1985 (1989), winner of Irish Times Literature Award, 1992;
also ed., Ireland: Towards a Sense of Place (Cork UP 1985). DIL2
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Works
Monographs, The Modernisation of Irish Society 1848-1918 (Oxford:
Clarendon Press 1973); ed., Ireland: Towards a Sense of Place (Cork
UP 1985) [incl. Lee, ‘Centralisation and Community’; c.p.92];
Ireland 1912-1985: Politics and Society (Cambridge UP 1989).
Articles incl. ‘University, State and Society in Ireland, 1983’, in The Crane Bag [‘The Forum Issue: Education, Religion, Arts, Psychology’], Vol. 7, No. 2 (1983), pp.5-12; ‘The Irish’, in Seán Dunne, ed., Cork Review [Sean Ó Faoláin Special Issue] (Cork 1991), p.66-67 [see infra]; contrib. to Kieran A. Kennedy, From Famine to Feast: Economic and Social Change in Ireland 1847-1997 (Dublin: IPA 2000), 182pp.
Miscellaneous incls. review of Cormac Ó Grada, A Rocky Road: The Irish Economy Since the 1920s (Manchester UP 1997), in Times Literary Supplement, 30 Jan. 1998.
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Criticism
Conor McCarthy, Modernisation: Crisis and Culture in Ireland
1969-1992 (Four Courts Press 2000), p.28.
Kieran Kennedy, ed., Ireland in Transition [Thomas Davis Lectures 1985], Mercier Press [1985]; quoted by Roy Johnston in Books Ireland, Feb. 1987, p.10 [review].)
Cormac O Grada, Ireland: A New Economic History 1780-1939, Clarendon Press 1994, pb. 1995, p.376.)
Greene, ‘Growing up Irish’, in ‘The Irish Psyche’, special issue of The Irish Journal of Psychology, 15, 2 & 3, 1994, p.367.)
Breda Dunne, An Intelligent Visitor's Guide to the Irish, Mercier 1990).
Smyth, Decolonisation and Criticism: The Construction of Irish Literature, Pluto Press 1998, p.93.
T. J. Barrington, ‘Frontiers of the Mind’, in Richard Kearney, ed., Across the Frontiers: Ireland in the 1990s, Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1989, p.36.
Geert Lernout, ed., The Crows Behind the Plough: History and Violence in Anglo-Irish Poetry and Drama, Rodopi 1991, p.13.)
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Notes
Brian J. Goggin, reviewing Damien Kiberd, Media in Ireland:
the Search for Diversity (Dublin: Four Courts 1998), 94pp., remarks
that ‘Joe Lee, one of the speakers, thinks of Ireland as carrying
“the psychological baggage of an inferiority complex”, a view
that some recent research suggests is mistaken. he fears “the infiltration
of the silent value sustem about the nature of soiceity that dominates
the international media. That value system is based on hedonistic, or
no-fault, individualism.” But research discussed in media Audiences
in Ireland suggests that Irish cultures are able to resist outside influences.
While Lee suggests that “there would be no difficultry in substantianting
the view that there was an overwhelming assumption on the part of RTÉ
programmers that no-fault divorce was the correct response”, Stephen
Ryan's research … comes to the opposite conclusion.’ (Books Ireland,
Summer 1998, p.166; note that Stephen Ryan, et al., are discussed in the
ensuing part of the review devoted to Mary J. Kelly & Barbara O’Connor,
Media Audiences in Ireland: Power and Cultural Identity (UCD Press
1998), 286pp.
Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)