• A study of the life and activities of Sir Stephen Edward De Vere of Curragh Chase, 1812-1904 

  McGrath, Julie (2024-10-17)

  The focus of this thesis is on the life of Sir Stephen Edward De Vere. In some ways, he might be viewed as a peripheral figure in nineteenth-century Irish history. Although he did serve as a Member of Parliament for county ...

• Organised labour in Limerick City, 1810-1899 

  McGrath, John (2024-09-11)

  This monograph identifies and describes the nineteenth century workers of Limerick who established and maintained societies, representing both individual occupational groups and multi-occupational alliances. The study ...

• A complicated birth: the Northern Ireland Ministry of Education, 1921-1925 

  Lindsay, Noel (2023-10-25)

  The primary purpose of this thesis is to establish the extent to which the development of the nascent Ministry of Education (M.O.E.) in Northern Ireland (N.I.) was defined by its relationship with the Roman Catholic (R.C.) ...

• Studying revolution: accounts of Mary Immaculate College, 1918-1923 

  Hughes, Brian (ed); Ni Bhroiméil, Úna (ed); Ragan, Benjamin (ed); Mary Immaculate College (eds) (Limerick City and County Council, 2022-04-28)

  In 1921 the War of Independence entered its most violent phase and this has been reflected in Limerick City and County Council’s Decade of Centenaries programme this year. But against the backdrop of ambushes such as ...

• Survival and assimilation: loyalism in the interwar Irish Free State (Pre-published version) 

  Hughes, Brian (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022-12-03)

  In 1997, historian R. B. McDowell suggested that when “compared to the thorough methods for dealing with unpopular minorities … in eastern and central Europe and elsewhere, the harassment of loyalists was not notably ...

• The Southern Irish Loyalists Relief Association and Irish ex-servicemen of the First World War, 1922–1932 (Pre-published version) 

  Hughes, Brian (Routledge, 2023-08-20)

  In 1925, the Southern Irish Loyalists Relief Association (SILRA), originally founded for the relief of southern Irish loyalist refugees in Britain, created a fund for ex-servicemen resident in the Irish Free State (IFS). ...

• The disbanded Royal Irish Constabulary and forced migration, 1922–31 

  Hughes, Brian (2022-04-08)

  This article concerns the men of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) who were disbanded from the force in 1922 and felt obliged to leave Ireland for Britain. Afforded unique – if not always entirely sufficient – financial ...

• Irish policemen in the Palestine mandate, 1922-1948 

  Gannon, Seán William (2022-03-16)

  This thesis explores Ireland’s influence on and involvement in the policing of British Mandated Palestine and, through an examination of five distinct but interrelated aspects of the Irish experience, assesses Ireland’s ...

• From the hoof to the hook: an investigation of beef processor influence on Irish farm policy and politics, 1950-1986 

  O'Brien, Declan (2021-06-11)

  This thesis traces the development of the Irish beef processing industry through its first thirty-six years from 1950 to 1986. It asks how and why meat processing firms became so influential in Irish farming, documenting ...

• ‘We think considerable improvement should be made.’ Irish insanity and the Limerick District Lunatic Asylum, 1772-1900 

  Waters, Tríona (2021-04-08)

  The focus of this thesis is the Limerick District Lunatic Asylum (LDLA hereafter), its interconnected institutions and the people who used them. Established in 1827, LDLA was Ireland’s first large-scale provincial district ...

• Contested goals and competing interests: freedpeople's education in North Carolina during the Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1861-1875 

  Brosnan, AnneMarie (2020-12-18)

  This dissertation examines the growth and development of North Carolina’s schools for the freedpeople during the Civil War and Reconstruction era, 1861-1875. In particular, it investigates who taught the freedpeople in ...

• The evolution of Irish veterinary practice, 1700-1950 

  Flaherty, John (2020-12-10)

  This thesis explores the evolution of Irish veterinary practice, especially with regards to cattle practice, over the course of some 250 years. It begins in the eighteenth-century, with a discussion on prominent farriers ...

• Early genealogies of West Clare 

  Swift, Catherine (Kilrush and District Historical Society, 2015)

• Bonfields, Brodericks, Griffins, O'Gradys, Whites and Walls: Genetic genealogies and DNA studies in Limerick 

  Swift, Catherine (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2015)

• Blood of the Dubliners 

  Swift, Catherine (Dublin City Library, 2013)

• The descendants of Brian Boru 

  Swift, Catherine (GGI [Genetic Genealogy Ireland], 2015)

• Surname research and DNA: Publications, possibilities and pitfalls 

  Swift, Catherine (Dublin City Library, 2015)

• Paddy le Carpenter and surname formation in the mid-west 

  Swift, Catherine (UCD [University College Dublin], 2015)

• The multilingual origins of medieval Irish surnames 

  Swift, Catherine (ISOGG [International society of Genetic Genealogy], 2015)

• The journey to the grave and the feast of death-lying 

  Swift, Catherine (Wordwell, 2016)

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