Graduate Research Students (2012-2013): MLitt and PhD
MLitt Students
Tom Burke, BA (MLitt, Dr William Mulligan)
‘Irish participation in the Great War of 1914-1918’
Doireann Markham, B.Ed (St Patrick’s), MA (UCC) (MLitt, Professor Maurice Bric)
‘The SDLP and British and American Northern Ireland Politics and Policy, 1970-1980’
Kevin O’Regan, BA, UCC, MA Newcastle, (MLitt, Dr William Mulligan)
‘The United States and Empire before WWI’
PhD Students
Nina V. Andersen, BA (Aarhus), MA (UCD) (PhD, Supervisor: Dr Susannah Riordan)
Northern Ireland, 1969-1998
Stephen Balbirnie, BA, MA, UCD (PhD, Dr William Mulligan)
‘British intervention at Archangel and Murmansk during the Russian Civil War’
Leanne Blaney, BA, MA, UCD (PhD, Dr Paul Rouse)
The History and Impact of the Automobile in Ireland, 1895-1999
Laura Brennan, BA, MA (PhD, Dr Edward Coleman)
‘Knighthood, Kingship and Society in the Middle Ages’
Clare Burson, BA/BSc (Maryland), MA (UCD) (PhD, Dr Elva Johnston)
The Origins of Crom Dubh in Early Medieval Ireland
Jeffrey Cox, BSc Education (Millersville), MA, UCD (PhD, Dr Tadhg O’hAnnrachain)
‘Catholic Communities in Sussex and Kildare c. 1558 to 1640: Continuity, Contrast and Conections’
Elaine Dos S Pereira Farrell, BA (Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeira) (PhD, Dr Elva Johnston) IRCHSS Doctoral Scholar
‘Taboos and Penitence: Analysis of the Irish Medieval society conversion process and the constitution of a popular religion (centuries VI-VII)’
Denis Doolan, BA, MA, UCD (PhD, Professor Diaramaid Ferriter)
‘The Irish policy of the Conservative Party, 1920-1929’
David Durnin, BA, MA Social and Cultural History of Medicine, UCD (PhD, Dr Catherine Cox) IRCHSS Doctoral Scholar
‘The War away from Home: Irish Medical Migration in the Great War’
Kathryn Drake, BDS, PGDInt Relns, MA (Massey and Waikato University), (PhD, Professor Diarmaid Ferriter)
‘Irish Volunteers General Headquarters: 1918-1924’
Angela Evans, BA, MA in Medieval Studies, UCD (PhD, Dr Michael Staunton)
‘Medieval Manners and Social Etiquette, 1150-1550’
Philomena Gorey, BA, UCD (PhD, Dr John McCafferty)
‘Midwifery in early Modern Ireland’
James Houlihan, Incorporated Law Soc, MA (UCD) (PhD, Dr Elva Johnston)
The Law of the Innocents 697 AD: a law for non-combatants - its place in the history of international humanitarian law’.
Neil Johnston, BA, MA, UCD (PhD, Dr Ivar McGrath) IRCHSS Doctoral Scholar
‘Court and Country against the Castle: A study of the principal Catholic Palesmen and their manipulation of patronage networks in promoting their interests in Post-Cromwellian Ireland’
Mary Kelly, BA (University of Western Ontario), MA in History, UCD (PhD)
‘The Liberal Arts in Medieval Glendalough: manuscripts, impact and legacy’
Mark Kirwan, BA in History and Archaeology, MA Medieval Studies UCD (PhD)
‘How to deal with Vikings: A Comparative Study of Reaction and Resistance to Viking raids in Medieval Europe’
Michael Lynch, BE (Mechanical Engineering) UCD, Dip Archaeology NUIG, Hdip Archaeology UCC, MA Archaeology UCD, (PhD, Dr John McCafferty)
‘Examination of the extant ecclesiastical plate of the dioceses of Co Clare prior to 1830’
Keith McLoughlin, BA, MA, UCD (PhD, Dr William Mulligan)
‘Sense about Security: Labour party security policy, 1974-79’
Alice Mauger, BA, MA in Social & Cultural History of Medicine (PhD, Dr Catherine Cox)
‘The great class which lies between: provision for the non-pauper insane in Ireland, 1830-1900’
Kirsten Mulrennan, BA (UL), MA (Archives) (UCD), (PhD, Dr Elizabeth Mullins)
‘Issues in archiving twentieth century medical records in Ireland: gender, access and ethics’
Brian Murphy, BA, (PhD, Professor Mary E Daly)
The Irish Presidency
Ciaran Murphy, BA, MA (UCD) (PhD, Dr Sandra Scanlon)
Congress and United States Covert Operations from Ford to Reagan
Sherra Murphy, BA, University of New Mexico, MA, University of California (PhD, Professor Mary Daly)
‘Reflection on the Necro-Zoo: The Museum of Natural History, Dublin as visual and material culture’
Donal Murray, BA Sociology and Social Relations TCD, MA International Relations (University of Birmingham) (PhD, Dr Catherine Cox)
‘A study of Irish regional newspapers in the mid-19th century (1845-1875)’
Frances Nolan, BA, MA, UCD (PhD, Dr Ivar McGrath) IRCHSS Doctoral Scholar
‘Jacobite Women and the Williamite Confiscation: the role of women in petitioning for the reclamation of forfeited property in Ireland, 1691-1703’
Brendan O’Donoghue, DPA, UCD (PhD, Professor Mary Daly)
‘The Local Government Board for Ireland (LGB), 1872-1922’
Eoin O’Donnchadha, BBS (DCU), MA, UCD (PhD, Dr Elva Johnston) IRCHSS Doctoral Scholar
‘Fili, eices, bard, cainte, dulsaine and rindaid’
John O’Halloran, BA (PhD, Dr Declan Downey)
‘The reign and impact of Mary I on Irish constitutional, ecclesiastical, socio-cultural and intellectual developments’
Robbie Ivan Roulston, BA, MA, UCD (PhD, Dr Lindsey Earner-Byrne) Albert Lovett Scholar IRCHSS Doctoral Scholar
‘The Church of Ireland and the Irish state: institution, community and state relations, 1922-1982’
Conor Tobin, BA, MA, UCD (PhD, Professor Robert Gerwarth)
‘The U.S. 1953-1960’‘Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Carter Administration, and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.'
Ashling Smith, BA (University of Plymouth) (PhD, 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 Medieval Studies (History), UCD (PhD, Dr Edel Breathnach) Micheál O’Cleirigh Scholar
‘A survey of the provenance and survival of ecclesiastical objects in Ireland from the later medieval period’
Rachael Taaffe, BA, MA (PhD, Dr Ivar McGrath)
‘Assessing the illegitimate children of Charles II of England, in relation to the Restoration Court’
Nienke van Etten, BA, MA (PhD)
‘Political Propaganda on Early Christian Material Culture’
Paolo Virtuani, BA Medieval History, (Universita degli Studi di Milano) (PhD, Dr Edward Coleman) IRCHSS Doctoral Scholar
‘The Order of St John of Jerusalem (the Hospitallers) in Ireland’