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PhD research

  • Land, Economy and Society: Strategies of Inheritance and Patterns of Participation in Superior Education in Rural Ireland, 1861-1918 (Sarah Hillas, PhD awarded). Supervisors: Assoc Professor Deirdre Raftery and Assoc Professor Marie Clarke
  • Women and the Principalship in Ireland: A Life History Study (Mary Cunneen, PhD awarded). Supervisor: Assoc Professor Judith Harford
  • The Church of Ireland and its Relationship with the Irish Education System, 1922-1950, with particular reference to the Irish language (Martina Relihan, PhD awarded). Supervisor: Assoc Professor Deirdre Raftery
  • The Endowed Schools Commissions 1791-1894, as Mediators of Superior Schooling in Ireland (Christopher McCormack PhD awarded). Supervisor: Assoc Professor Deirdre Raftery
  • Presentation Convents and the National System of Education in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Catherine Nowlan-Roebuck PhD awarded). Supervisor: Assoc Professor Deirdre Raftery 
  • A History of the Provision and Reform of General Nurse Education and Training in Ireland, 1879-1994 (Gerard Fealy PhD awarded). Supervisor: Assoc Professor Deirdre Raftery
  • A History of the Provision and Reform of Probationer Education and Training in the Garda Siochana, 1922-2007 (Brian McCarthy PhD awarded). Supervisor: Assoc Professor Deirdre Raftery
  • The Opening of Higher Education to Irish Women (Judith Harford PhD awarded). Supervisor: Assoc Professor Deirdre Raftery
  • Patrick Pearse and Education (Brendan Walsh PhD awarded).  Supervisor: Assoc Professor Deirdre Raftery
  • National Education and the Great Famine (Christine O’Connor Lennon PhD researcher) Supervisor: Assoc Professor Deirdre Raftery 
  • Presentation Convents in the Nineteenth Century: Foundresses and Foundations (Deidre Bennett PhD researcher).  Supervisor: Assoc Professor Deirdre Raftery

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