Department of History: Recent submissions
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A review of 'Business archival sources for the local historian by Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh and Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh'
(Irish Labour History Society, 2011)This, the most recent volume of the Maynooth Research Guides in Irish Local History series, brings together the expertise troika of the socio-economic historian, the accountant and the accounting historian. The result ... -
A review of 'Arrangements for the Integration of Irish Immigrants in England and Wales. By Anthony E.C.W. Spencer, edited by Mary E. Daly' (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 2014)This report, completed in 1960 but kept from the public domain until the publication of the present volume by the Irish Manuscripts Commission, was the product of the conjunction of two forces – Catholic church concern for ... -
A review of 'The account books of the Franciscan House, Broad Lane, Cork 1764–1921. Edited by Liam Kennedy and Claire Murphy' (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 2014)This book, making accessible in printed form the accounts of the Cork Franciscan Friary, should be read in conjunction with the database available on the Irish Manuscripts Commission website. Both book and database are the ... -
Loyalists and loyalism in a southern Irish community, 1921– 22 (pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 2016)A second Irish Grants Committee met for the first time in October 1926 to deal with claims for compensation from distressed southern Irish loyalists. By the time it had ceased its work, the committee had dealt with over ... -
'Make the terror behind greater than the terror in front'? Internal discipline, forced participation, and the I.R.A., 1919–21 (pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)This article will explore two relatively neglected features of the Irish Republican Army’s (I.R.A.) guerrilla war between 1919 and 1921: internal discipline and forced participation. The gravest disciplinary measure was ... -
Sex in the civitas: early Irish Intellectuals and their vision of women (pre-print version)
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)Given arguments that Irish poets and churchmen could be educated together, this paper quarries ecclesiastical sources for stereotypes informing female depictions in narrative literature. -
Forts and fields: a study of 'monastic towns' in seventh and eighth century Ireland
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Insurgent Wicklow
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Adapting early modern Ireland
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Contested memories: revisiting the battle of Mount Street Bridge, 1916
(British Journal for Military History, 2017)The Battle of Mount Street Bridge, 26 April 1916, was the most successful rebel military engagement of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. Though it accounted for something in the region of half of the total British casualties ... -
Defying the IRA? Intimidation, coercion, and communities during the Irish Revolution
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Aliens in wartime: reactions and responses to foreign nationalities and minorities in Ireland during the First World War
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)Ireland was a diverse society made up of various nationalities and ethnic minorities before the twentieth century. Relationships and tensions have developed between these various ‘foreign’ groups and Ireland’s host nation ... -
‘Rivers of ink’: searching for authentic representations of the Holocaust – words, pictures and the stories they tell
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2018)The Holocaust haunts the European mind, and its reverberations continue to this day. However, for those of us who were not there, all our knowledge, understanding and experience of this event is expressed in representations ... -
The evolution of Limerick City’s fife and drum band tradition 1840 to 1935
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2017)This thesis examines the evolution and activity of fife and drum bands in Limerick city between 1840 and 1935. The topic was chosen because of the author’s involvement in St Mary’s Fife and Drum Band since 1976 and because ... -
The life and networks of Pamela Fitzgerald, 1773-1831
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2017)This thesis assesses the life of Pamela Fitzgerald. Crucially, it will attempt to tell the story of Pamela Fitzgerald from her own perspective, rather than the viewpoint of her husband, which has dominated for so long. ... -
‘One law, many justices: an examination of the magistracy in Pre-Famine Ireland, 1830-1846’
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)This thesis examines the role of magistrates in pre-Famine Ireland, examining their relations with one another, with central government, and with local society. It considers the role of the magistracy in enforcing law and ... -
Class, religion and society in Limerick City, 1922-1939
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)This study focuses on the civil society which existed in Limerick City between the signing of the Treaty and the outbreak of the Second World War. The purpose of the thesis is to examine this civil society outside of the ... -
A spirit of emulation: the transformation of sport in North Munster, 1850–1890.
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Naaman and the Centurion - 2 Kings 5 and Luke 7
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014)The Gospel of Luke’s is indebted to the Elijah-Elisha material from 1 and 2 Kings. The centurion story of Luke 7:1-10 shares several similar details with the Naaman story of 2 Kings 5. A few scholars have recognized the ... -
A terror to evil doers: The NSPCC and industrial schools in Kilkenny 1927-1937
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014)This thesis examines the role of the Kilkenny, Carlow and Queen’s County Branch of the National Society for Prevention of Cruelty in the committal of children to industrial schools during the period 1927- 1937. In addition, ...