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Survival and assimilation: loyalism in the interwar Irish Free State (Pre-published version)
(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)
(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
(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 ... -
The journey to the grave and the feast of death-lying
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Commentary: the Knowth oghams in context
(RIA [Royal Irish Academy], 2008) -
The early history of Knowth
(RIA [Royal Irish Academy], 2008) -
Religion as factor in Irish town formation
(RIA [Royal Irish Academy], 2018) -
Markers of heroic deaths (Pre-published version)
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Chivalry, Saracens and the chansons de geste of Brian Boru (Pre-published version)
(Four Courts Press, 2016) -
Hunting for the genetic legacy of Brian Boru in Irish historical sources (Pre-published version)
(Four Courts Press, 2014) -
Taxes, trade and trespass: the Hiberno-Norse context of the Dál Cais empire (Pre-published version)
(RIA [Royal Irish Academy], 2013) -
Review of 'The Regular Canons in the Medieval British Isles' Janet Burton and Karen Stöber (eds.) (Pre-published version)
(FMRSI [Forum for Medieval and Renassiance Studies in Ireland], 2013) -
Irish and British saints of the early Medieval period (Pre-published version)
(Tablet Publishing Company, 2012) -
Ogam stones and the earliest Irish Christians part II
(NUIM [National University of Ireland Maynooth], 1997) -
How reliable are the annals as a source for the history of the Uí Néill?
(UCD [University College Dublin] History Society, 1996) -
Review of 'The transformation of the early Irish church in the twelfth century. Studies in Celtic history XXIX' by Marie Therese Flanagan (Pre-published version)
(ASIMS [American Society for Irish Medieval Studies], 2014) -
Review of 'Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf' by Seán Duffy (Pre-published version)
(ASIMS [American Society for Irish Medieval Studies], 2014) -
A review of 'Irish Women at Work 1930–1960. By Elizabeth Kiely and Máire Leane' (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)This exploration of Munster women’s experience in the workplace is based on the stories of forty-two women, representing a broad spectrum of generational, social and employment backgrounds. It is one of two linked outcomes ... -
A review of 'Dublin through the Ages by Art Cosgrove' (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 1990)This collection of eight studies examines the development of Dublin from the ninth century to the late 1980s, tracing the physical growth of the city, the fluctuations of its population, and the varying fortunes of its ... -
A review of 'Dublin Slums, 1800-1925: A Study in Urban Geography by Jacinta Prunty' (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 1999)This study of the development of the Dublin slums over a period of a century and a quarter investigates the interrelated themes of public health, housing and poverty, as well as the reaction thereto by central and local ...