PROGRAMME
The PRTLI funded programme, “Transforming the Study of Ireland and its diaspora” consists of four core research strands:
- Footprints of Ireland:heritage and landscape;
- Irish Identities from the Seventeenth Century: cultural and linguistic expression;
- State and Society: historical development and contemporary challenges;
- The Irish experience of conflict resolution in a British-Irish, European and global context.
SPECIFIC RESEARCH THEMES: POSTDOCTORAL
- Natives, migrants or colonisers? Investigating Ireland’s agricultural origins in their European context:
Dr. Thomas Kador
- The effects of transformed family and kinship structures on Irish identity in Irish communities in early modern Europe and in Ireland: Dr. Ciaran O’Scea
- Taking up the torch: Alice Milligan and the Irish Cultural Revival: Dr. Catherine Morris
- Institutional design in post conflict Northern Ireland and political participation of new communities:
Dr. Siobhan Byrne
SPECIFIC RESEARCH THEMES: DOCTORAL
- The Intellectual and Cultural Mentality of the Irish Soldiers in Spanish Military Service during the 17th Century: Eduardo da Mesa Gallego (Supervised by Dr Declan Downey)
- In Tírechán’s Footprints: The Archaeology of the early medieval Collectanea: Terry O’Hagan (Supervised by Dr Aidan O’Sullivan)
- Consuming Culture in the Early modern Household: An Archaeology of Capitalism in Ireland 1600-1800: Madeline Parker (Supervised by Professor Tadhg O’Keefe)
- Crossing Borders: Gender and Identity in Conflict and peace processes: Ciapas, South Africa and Northern Ireland: Melanie Hoewer (Supervised by Professor Jennifer Todd)
- National Identity in divided societies. Reasons, functions evolutions and effects. Violence and peace process in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country: Pascal Pragnere (Supervised by Professor Jennifer Todd)
- Gareth Mulrooney
- Patrizia La Piscopia
- Agency and Social Dynamism in Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Ireland and Malta
Eimear Meegan (Supervised by Professor Gabriel Cooney)
THUS GO THE SOLDIERS OF IRELAND
The above image is a detail from Albrecht Dürer “Thus go the Soldiers of Ireland”, (1521)
Kupferstichkabinett Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Postdoctoral Researchers
- Dr Thomas Kador
- Dr Ciaran O'Scea
- Dr Catherine Morris
- Dr Siobhan Byrne
- Dr Neil Fleming
- Dr Jim MacPherson
- Dr Laura McAtackney
- Dr Stefanie Lehner
- Dr Susan Cahill
- Dr John O'Neill
Doctoral Researchers
