Department of History

Staff Publications & Research Interests

 

 

Dr. Deirdre McMahon

 

Research Interests

20th century Ireland; British Empire and Commonwealth (including India); 20 th century Irish church history (particularly mission history).

 

Select Publications

• Republicans and Imperialists: Anglo-Irish Relations in the 1930s (Yale University Press, 1984).
• Their New Ireland: Moynihan Family Correspondence 1908-1918 (Irish Academic Press, 2004).
• “ Ireland, the Empire and the Commonwealth”, in Kevin Kenny (ed.), Ireland and the British Empire ( Oxford University Press, 2004).
• “ Ireland and the Evolution of Dominion Status in India, Burma and the Commonwealth 1942-49”, in Joseph M. Skelly & Michael Kennedy (eds), Irish Foreign Policy 1919-1966 (Four Courts Press, 2000)
• “John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin 1940-1972”, in James Kelly & Daire Keogh (eds), History of the Catholic Diocese of Dublin (Four Courts Press, 1999).

 

Liam Irwin

 

Research Interests

Politics and Administration, Ireland 1660-91: the career of Patrick Sarsfield: the Jewish community in Limerick: Limerick local history.

 

Select Publications

• ‘Personalities and Politics: The Presidency of Munster and the Lords Lieutenant 1660-72’, in Tom Dunne & Laurence M. Geary (eds), History and the Public Sphere Cork University Press, 2005).
• ‘The Limerick Tailors’ Strike, 1898’ in D. Lee (ed.), Limerick’s Industrial History ( Limerick: Civic Trust Press, 2002).
• ‘Purgatory Re-Visited: The Historical Context of Ó Bruadair” in P. Riggs (ed.), Dáibhí Ó Bruadair: His Historical and Literary Context ( London: Irish Texts Society. 2001), pp 1-17.
• ‘The Historiography of the Twelfth Century Reform’ in L. Irwin (ed.), Explorations: Centenary Essays (Limerick: Mary Immaculate College,1998), pp 93-110.
• ‘Sarsfield: The Man and the Myth’ in B. Whelan (ed.), The Last of the Great Wars (Limerick: University of Limerick Press, 1995) pp 108-26.

 

Dr Liam Chambers

 

Research Interests

Eighteenth Century Ireland; The Irish in Europe, 1550-1815; Intellectual History of Early Modern Europe; The Irish Colleges in Paris, 1578-1997.

 

Select Publications

• Michael Moore c.1639-1726: Provost of Trinity, Rector of Paris ( Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005)
• Rebellion in Kildare 1790-1803 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1998).
• ‘Irish Catholics, French Cartesians: Irish reactions to Cartesianism in France, 1671-1726’ in Eamon Maher and Grace Neville (eds), France - Ireland: Anatomy of a Relationship (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2004), pp 133-45.
• ‘The Library of an Irish Catholic émigré: Michael Moore’s Bibliothèque, 1726’ in Archivium Hibernicum, volume lviii (2004), pp 210-42.
• ‘The 1798 rebellion in north Leinster’ in Thomas Bartlett, David Dickson, Daire Keogh and Kevin Whelan (eds), 1798: a bicentenary perspective ( Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003), 122-36.
• ‘“A More General and Rooted Spirit of Disaffection”: The 1803 Rebellion in Kildare’ in History Ireland, 3, 11 (Autumn 2003), pp 20-5.

 

Dr Maura Cronin

 

Research Interests:

Social and Urban History; Oral History; Nineteenth Century Ireland.

 

Select Publications:

 

 

Dr Úna Ní Bhroiméil

 

Research Interests:

Irish-America 1850-1920; The Irish-American press in the nineteenth century; Women’s periodicals in nineteenth century Ireland; the formation of female teachers in Ireland 1890-1950.

 

Select Publications:

• Building Irish Identity in America, 1870-1915 - The Gaelic Revival, (Four Courts Press, 2003)
• “American Influence on the Gaelic League: Inspiration or control?”, in Betsey Taylor-Fitzsimon and James H. Murphy (eds.). The Irish Revival Reappraised, (Four Courts Press. 2003)
• “The Creation of an Irish Culture in the United States: The Gaelic Movement, 1870-1915”, in New Hibernia Review. Vol. 5 (3), Autumn 2001, pp 87-101.
• “The Irish-American press and the South African war” in Simon J. Potter (ed) Newspapers and empire in Ireland and Britain: reporting the British Empire, c.1857-1921. (Four Courts Press, 2004)