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Studying revolution: accounts of Mary Immaculate College, 1918-1923
(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)
(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 ...
From the hoof to the hook: an investigation of beef processor influence on Irish farm policy and politics, 1950-1986
(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 ...
The evolution of Irish veterinary practice, 1700-1950
(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 ...
Contested goals and competing interests: freedpeople's education in North Carolina during the Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1861-1875
(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 ...
‘We think considerable improvement should be made.’ Irish insanity and the Limerick District Lunatic Asylum, 1772-1900
(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 ...
Irish policemen in the Palestine mandate, 1922-1948
(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 ...
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 ...