Life
1907-1984 [Theodore William; fam. ‘Theo’]; b. Belfast, ed. Royal
Belfast Acad. Inst., QUB; Prof. of Mod. History TCD 1939-77; fellow emeritus,
1977; joint fnd. with Robert Dudley Edwards, and joint-ed., Irish Historical
Studies, 1938-77; made lecture, ‘Towards a new history of Ireland’,
as an address to Irish Historical Society, 4 Dec. 1962, resulting in the
projected volumes of A New History of Ireland, edited by Moody
with others incl. D. B. Quinn, R. B. McDowell, and Aubrey Gwynn; also
issued with F. X. Martin, ed., The Course of Irish History (1967),
taken from a 23-lecture series given on RTE during 24 Jan.-13 June 1966;
issued ‘Rules for Contributors to Irish Historical Studies’
(4th iss.; 1968) containing a list of standard Irish historical references;
also ‘Irish History and Irish Mythology’ (1978), a key revisionist
text; issued a history of QUB with J. C. Beckett; d. 11 Feb.; his history
library was acquired by John Gamble of Belfast, bookseller. DIB DIW
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Works
Monographs, The Londonderry Plantation 1609-41 (Belfast
1939); with J C Beckett, Thomas Davis 1814-45 (Dublin 1945); Ulster
since 1800 (1955; 1957); with J. C. Beckett, Queens Belfast 1845-59,
the History of the University, 2 vols. (1959); with F. X. Martin,
eds., The Course of Irish History [1967], rev. and enl. 3rd edn.
(Cork: Mercier 1994), 510pp. [with further chaps. by J. H. Whyte and Richard
English in the edns. of 1984 and 1994, incl. 57pp. chronology up to IRA
ceasefire] ed. with F. X. Martin, F. J. Byrne, et al., A New History
of Ireland 1534-1691, 3 vols. (Oxford 1976); 6 vols. to 1988, &c.;
A Chronology of Irish History to 1976, Vol. 8 (Oxford 1983);
Do., [...] Maps, Genealogies, Lists, Vol. 9 (Oxford 1984); ed.,
Nationality and the Pursuit of National Independence (Belfast 1978);
Davitt and the Irish Revolution 1846-82 (Oxford 1982; pb. edn.
1984) [var. 1981]; Irish Historiography 1938-1970 (Irish Committee
of Historical Sciences, TCD: 1971) [listed in Annual British National
Bibliography].
Articles, ‘A New History of Ireland’, in Irish Historical Studies, Vol. XVI, No. 63 (March 1969), [offprint 17pp.]; ‘Irish History and Irish Mythology’, in Hermethena CXXIV (Summer 1978), pp.7-24, rep. in Ciaran Brady, ed., Interpreting Irish History: The Debate on Historical Revisionism 1938-1994 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1994), pp.71-86 [infra].
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Criticism
F. S. L. Lyons, ‘T.W.M’, in Lyons & R. A. J. Hawkins, eds., Ireland
under the Union: Varieties of Tension (OUP 1980), pp.1-33.
Helen F. Mulvey, ‘Theodore William Moody (1907-1984): An Appreciation’, in Irish Historical Studies, XXIV (1984-85), pp.121-30.
R. W. Dudley Edwards, ‘T. W. Moody and the Origins of Irish Historical Studies, in Irish Historical Studies, XXVI (1988-89), pp.1-2.
Ciaran Brady, ed., Interpreting Irish History: The Debate
on Historical Revisionism 1938-1994 (Dublin: IAP 1994), pp.8-9.
Bibl. Moody, ’Irish History and Irish Mythology’, Hermethena,
124 (1978), pp.7-24; here 71-86.
Conor McCarthy, Irish Modernisation: Crisis and Culture in Ireland, 1969-1992 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), pp.98-99.
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