Bryan McGovern

I am Chair of the History and Philosophy Department, Professor of History and History Education, and I teach courses in Irish History, American History, and History Education. I earned my Ph.D. in History from the University of Missouri in 2003. My research interests focus on 19th century Irish and Irish-American History and include:

"Ultramontanism and the Fracturing of Irish America," under review with Irish Studies Review.

"How the color of St. Patrick’s Day went from Blue to Green," The Conversation (March 2025).

"Richard O'Gorman and Young Ireland on Race, Class, and Culture in Nineteenth Century Irish America," New Hibernia Review (Summer 2022).

“Andrew Jackson and the Protestant Irish of Philadelphia: Early Nineteenth Century Sectarianism,” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies (Spring 2020). 

“Young Ireland and Southern Nationalism,” Irish Studies South (2016).

The Fenians: Irish Rebellion in the North Atlantic World, 1858-1876 (Patrick Steward, co-author, University of Tennessee Press, 2013).

“Kerby Miller and Irish Immigration to America,” in The Making of Modern Immigration: An Encyclopedia of People and Ideas (2012).

 John Mitchel: Irish Nationalist, Southern Secessionist (University of Tennessee Press, 2009).

 “John Mitchel: Ecumenical Nationalist in the Old South,” New Hibernia Review (Summer, 2001).

I am currently working on a book on the Irish in Georgia.  

You can reach me at bmcgover@kennesaw.edu.