Graduate Research Students (2011-2012): MLitt and PhD
MLitt Students
Corey Anzelon, BSc, MA (Michigan) [Supervisor: Mr Charles Doherty]
A Comparison of Kingship Themes between Early Ireland and the Continent of Europe
Tom Burke, BA (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr William Mulligan]
Irish Participation in the Great War of 1914-1918
Anthony Cronin, BA (LSE), Grad Dip History (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr John McCafferty]
Geoffrey Keating and James Ussher: Alternative Interpretations of Early Irish History
Declan O’Keeffe, BA, MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr Lindsey Earner-Byrne]
From Atlantis to New Ireland: The Role and Influence of Jesuit Publications in Ireland from 1860 to 1914
Kevin O’Regan, BA, (UCC), MA (Newcastle) [Supervisor: Dr William Mulligan]
The United States and Empire before World War I
Sinead T. Thewlis-Duggan, BA, MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Professor Diarmaid Ferriter]
Women in the Early Anglo-Irish Theatre Movement
PhD Students
Colman Boyd, BComm, MBS, BA, MA (UCD) [Supervisors: Professor Edward James & Professor Mark Lytle]
Robert Kennedy’s Campaign for President
Stephen Balbirnie, BA, MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr Judith Devlin]
British Intervention at Archangel and Murmansk during the Russian Civil War
Desmond Brennan, BA (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr Michael Staunton]
The Exile of Thomas Becket 1164-70
Laura Brennan, BA, MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr Edward Coleman]
Knighthood, Kingship and Society in the Middle Ages
Gessica Cosi, BA (Bologna) [Supervisors: Professor Maurice Bric & Professor Mary E. Daly]
IRCHSS Doctoral Scholar
Eamon de Valera and Irish America
Jeffrey Cox, BSc Education (Millersville), MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin)
Catholic Communities in Sussex and Kildare c. 1558 to 1640: Continuity, Contrast and Connections
Elizabeth Dawson, BA, MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr Elva Johnston]
Perceptions of Conversion in Seventh-Century Ireland: Representations of Religious Transformation in the Lives of Brigit and Patrick
Eduardo De Mesa Gallego, BA, MdipAdvanced Studies, (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) [Supervisor: Dr Declan Downey]
Ad Astra Scholar
Historiography of Spanish-Irish Relations
Elaine Pereira Farrell, BA (Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro) [Supervisor: Dr Elva Johnston]
IRCHSS Doctoral Scholar
Taboos and Penitence: Analysis of the Irish Medieval Conversion Process and the Constitution of a Popular Religion (Centuries VI-VII)
Denis Doolan, BA, MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Professor Diarmaid Ferriter]
The Irish Policy of the Conservative Party, 1920-1929
David Durnin, BA, MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr Catherine Cox]
IRCHSS Doctoral Scholar
The War away from Home: Irish Medical Migration in the Great War
Kathryn Drake, BDS, PGD Int Relns, MA (Massey and Waikato University) [Supervisor: Professor Diarmaid Ferriter]
Irish Volunteers General Headquarters: 1918-1924
Angela Evans, BA, MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr Michael Staunton]
Medieval Manners and Social Etiquette, 1150-1550
Jennifer Farrell, BA, MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr Michael Staunton]
IRCHSS Doctoral Scholar
The Concept of the Past in Geoffrey of Monmouth
Suzanne Forbes, BA, MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr Ivar McGrath]
IRCHSS Doctoral Scholar
Society, Print and Politics in Ireland: 1691-1725
Philomena Gorey, BA (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr John McCafferty]
Midwifery in Early Modern Ireland
Fintan Hoey, BA, MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr Declan Downey]
IRCHSS Doctoral Scholar
Japanese Diplomacy in the Late 1960s
John-Paul Keane, BA (NUIG) [Supervisor: Professor Hugh Gough]
The Prefecture of Police of Paris and the Front de Libération Nationale (F.L.N.) during the Algerian War (1954-1962)
Mary Kelly, BA (University of Western Ontario), MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Mr Charles Doherty]
The Liberal Arts in Medieval Glendalough: Manuscripts, Impact and Legacy
Mark Kirwan, BA, MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Professor Edward James]
How to Deal with Vikings: A Comparative Study of Reaction and Resistance to Viking Raids in Medieval Europe
Ann Marie Long, BA, MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Professor Edward James]
Ad Astra Scholar
Ethnicity and Diversity in Medieval Iceland
Michael Lynch, BE (UCD) Dip Archaeology (NUIG), HDip Archaeology (UCC), MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr John McCafferty]
Examination of the Extant Ecclesiastical Plate of the Dioceses of Co. Clare Prior to 1830
Keith McLoughlin, BA, MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr Christopher Prior]
Sense about Security: Labour Party Security Policy, 1974-79
Doireann Markham, B.Ed (St Patrick’s College), MA (UCC) [Supervisor: Professor Maurice Bric]
The SDLP and British and American Northern Ireland Politics and Policy, 1970-1980
Alice Mauger, BA, MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr Catherine Cox]
The Great Class which Lies Between: Provision for the Non-Pauper Insane in Ireland, 1830-1900
Kelley Maxham, BS, MA (Murray State) [Supervisor: Professor Edward James]
A Biography of Josephine MacNeill
Michael Merrigan, MA (IADT), [Supervisor: Professor Diarmaid Ferriter]
Ireland and the British Empire/Commonwealth: Constitutional Nationalism and the Imperial Conferences of the 1920s and 1930s
Nathan Millin, BA (University of Victoria, Canada), MA (University of Wales, Lampeter) [Supervisor: Dr Elva Johnston]
The Resurrection of the Body: Theological Doctrine and Social Practice in Early Medieval Ireland
Kirsten Mulrennan, BA (UL), MA in Archives & Record Management (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr Elizabeth Mullins]
Issues in Archiving Twentieth-Century Medical Records in Ireland: Gender, Access and Ethics
Conor Mulvagh, BA, (UCD), MPhil (TCD) [Supervisor: Professor Diarmaid Ferriter]
IRCHSS Doctoral Scholar
Writing the Irish Parliamentary Party into the British Constitutional Narrative: The Political Evolution of the Party, 1880-1918
Brian Murphy, BA (UCD) [Supervisor: Professor Mary E. Daly]
The Irish Presidency
Sherra Murphy, BA (University of New Mexico), MA (University of California) [Supervisors: Professor Mary E. Daly & Professor Angela Bourke]
Reflections on the Necro-Zoo: The Museum of Natural History, Dublin as Visual and Material Culture
Donal Murray, BA (TCD), MA (University of Birmingham) [Supervisor: Dr Catherine Cox]
A study of Irish Regional Newspapers in the Mid-19th Century (1845-1875)
Frances Nolan, BA, MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr Ivar McGrath]
Jacobite Women and the Williamite Confiscation: The Role of Women in Petitioning for the Reclamation of Forfeited Property in Ireland, 1691-1703
Stephen O’Connor, BA, MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr William Mulligan]
IRCHSS Doctoral Scholar
Irish Officers in the British Army, 1921-1950
Brendan O’Donoghue, DPA (UCD) [Supervisor: Professor Mary E. Daly]
The Local Government Board for Ireland (LGB), 1872-1922
Eoin Ó Donnchadha, BBS (DCU), MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr Elva Johnston]
The Formation of the Filid in Early Medieval Ireland
John O’Halloran, BA (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr Declan Downey]
The Reign and Impact of Mary I on Irish Constitutional, Ecclesiastical, Socio-Cultural and Intellectual Developments
Jonathan O’Malley, BA (UCD) [Supervisor: Professor Michael Laffan]
The Irish Catholic Church and the Problem of Emigration, 1940-1965
Avril Patterson, BA, MLis (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr Lindsey Earner-Byrne]
The Church of Ireland in Southern Ireland, 1922-1959: Intellectual, Cultural and Social Perspectives
Robbie Ivan Roulston, BA, MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr Lindsey Earner-Byrne]
Albert Lovett Scholar
The Church of Ireland and the Irish State: Institution, Community and State Relations, 1922-1982
Conchúr Ó Toibín, BA, MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Professor Robert Gerwarth]
The U.S. 1953-1960
Evelien Schillern, MA (Leiden) [Supervisor: Dr Declan Downey]
IRCHSS Doctoral Scholar
The Dutch Republic in the Williamite Period in Late Seventeenth-Century Ireland
Ashling Smith, BA (University of Plymouth) [Supervisor: Professor Maurice Bric]
Outrageous Assemblies and Popular Protest: A Comparative Study of Popular Movements in Dublin from the Decade of Reform to the Eve of the Great Famine
Keith Smith, BA, MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr Edel Bhreathnach]
Micheál Ó Cléirigh Scholar
A Survey of the Provenance and Survival of Ecclesiastical Objects in Ireland from the Later Medieval Period
Rachael Taaffe, BA, MA (UCD) [Supervisor: Dr Ivar McGrath]
Assessing the Illegitimate Children of Charles II of England, in Relation to the Restoration Court
Paolo Virtuani, BA in Medieval History (Universita degli Studi di Milano) [Supervisor: Dr Edward Coleman]
IRCHSS Doctoral Scholar
The Order of St John of Jerusalem (the Hospitallers) in Ireland