Administration

Ms. Anne-Marie.O'Donnell -Susan.Mulcahy

Departmental Administrator (Job-share)

Phone: +353 (61) 202 280
Fax: +353 (61) 202 569
Room: C1076
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Faculty

Head of Department: Dr. Ruan O'Donnell,

Senior lecturer in History and Head, Department of History

Room: C1075
Ext: 3148
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Research interests: Modern Irish, European and Australian history, The United Irishmen, imperialism; Irish revolutionary movements; commemoration.

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Dr.Ciara Breathnach

Lecturer in History

Room: C1073
Ext: 3166
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Research interests: Irish women’s history; Public policy in early 20th Century Ireland; History of Irish travellers.

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Dr.Catherine Lawless

B.A. (Dublin) Ph.D. (Dublin)

Lecturer in History

Room: AM048
Ext: 2636
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Research interests: Art and society in the medieval and renaissance period; civic culture; patronage and art practices in Florence.

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Dr.Padraig Lenihan

B.A. (N.U.I.), Ll.B. (N.U.I.), Ph.D. (N.U.I), Barrister at Law

Lecturer in History - On sabbatical to semseter 2 2007/8

Room: C1087
Ext: 2066
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Research interests: Irish political and military history in the seventeenth-century; demography and medical history of the early modern period.

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Dr.John Logan

B.A. (N.U.I.), M. Ed. (Dublin), Ph.D. (N.U.I.)

Senior lecturer in History

Room: C1088
Ext: 2316
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Research interests: Poverty in the eighteenth century city; architecture and urban planning in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; schooling, language and literacy in Ireland, 1780-1970.

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Professor Anthony McElligott

B.A. (Essex), Ph.D. (Manchester) FRHistS

Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Historical Research

Room: C1092
Ext: 3524
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Research interests: Germany in the twentieth century, including urban politics, youth movements and youth gangs; cultural history.

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Dr.Alistair Malcolm

M.A. (St. Andrews), D.Phil. (Oxon)

Junior lecturer in History

Room: AM043
Ext: 2604
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Research interests: Spain in the golden age; diplomatic and court politics; cultural history; politics and artistic patronage.

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Dr Conor Reidy

B.A. (N.U.I.), H. Dip. Ed. (U.C.D.), M.A. (U.L.), Ph.D. (U.L.)

Teaching Assistant (History of Family)

Room:  C1-078
Ext: 3742
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Research Interests: The Irish borstal system, 1906-56; the juvenile penal system in Ireland, 1775-1921; nineteenth century penal reform; the inebriate reformatory system in Ireland.

Dr.Bernadette Whelan

B.A. (N.U.I.), M.A. (N.U.I.), Ph.D. (N.U.I.)

Senior lecturer in History

Room: C1090
Ext: 2234
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Research interests: Irish foreign policy 1900-60; twentieth century American-Irish relations; Reconstruction after the second world war; women in Ireland, 1900-60.

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• Gavin Wilk: B.A. (Villanova), M.A. (U.L.) Postgraduate Scholar, 2008-10.
• Dr Mícheál Ó hAodha: B.A. MA. (NUI), D.Phil. (UL). AHRC Research Scholar, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester – 2006-08.
• Tina Dingel: M.A. (St. Andrews) Postgraduate Scholar, 2002-04
• Dr David Fleming: B.A. (UL), M.St. (Oxon), D.Phil. (Oxon), 2007 - 2009
• John Maguire: B.A. (Limerick) Postgraduate Scholar, 2003-06
• William O’Brien: B.A., H. Dip. Ed. (N.U.I. Cork) Postgraduate Scholar, 1999-2000
• John O'Callaghan: B.A., M.A. (Limerick), H.Dip.Ed. (N.U.I. Galway) Postgraduate Scholar, 2006-08
• Catherine O'Connor: B.Rel.Sc. (N.U.I.) M.A. (Limerick) Postgraduate Scholar, 2002-05
• Matthew Potter: B.A. (London), Ph.D. (N.U.I. Galway) Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006-08
• Conor Reidy: B.A. (N.U.I. Galway) H.Dip. Ed (U.C.D.) M.A. (Limerick) Postgraduate Scholar, 2006-08
• Nadine Rossol: M.A. (St. Andrews) Postgraduate Scholar, 2003-2005; 2007-2009
• Bernadette Whelan: B.A. M.A. Ph.D. (N.U.I. Cork) Senior Research Fellow, 2005-06