History

Contact Details

Title	Lecturer
Address	School of History University College Cork Cork Ireland
Telephone:	+353-21-490-3000
Email:	ei.ccu@narollaho.c
Title	Lecturer
Address	History University College Cork Cork Ireland
Telephone:	+353-21-490-2605
Email:	ei.ccu@narollaho.c

Biography:

I completed a BA and MA in University College Dublin, before moving to the University of Cambridge to do a PhD.  Subsequently, I was awarded a Research Fellowship at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the British Academy, based in the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.  I also held a College Lectureship at Churchill College, Cambridge.  I moved to Cork in 1993 to teach historiography, and I have further developed my teaching interests to include cultural history and the history of European and Irish women from 1500.  My research interests reflect the range of Masters and doctoral topics that I would be happy to supervise.

I have published on the impact of partition on Irish nationalism in the early twentieth century, and, more recently, on antiquarian writing in eighteenth-century Ireland, which I look at from a British and European as well as Irish context.  My current project is a study of the translation of elite antiquarian scholarship into a key element of Irish popular nationalism in the nineteenth century.  Since 2004 I have been a co-editor of The Irish Review, one of the longest established and most influential journals of Irish Studies.