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Oral history, oral tradition and the Great Famine (Pre-published version)
(Anthem Press, 2012)
Surname formation in Ireland: Discussion, debates and DNA
(SNSBI [Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland], 2013)
Early Irish priests and their areas of ministry AD 700-900
(Columba Press, 2010)
‘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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Miracles and Medicine in the Late Seventeenth Century: Bernard Connor’s Evangelium Medici (1697)
(Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010)
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 ...