Recent Research Graduates

School of History and Geography

Name	Supervisor	Title	Degree	Year
Cathal Burke-O’Leary	Marnie Hay	State-building in Post-independence Ireland and India	PhD	2025
John Hogan	Daithí Ó Corráin	‘Empowering the laity’: new perspectives on the foundation and development of the Legion of Mary, 1921-62	PhD	2025
Kelly Adamson	Juliana Adelman	Public health in crisis? Informing public health policy in Ireland, 1939-53	PhD	2025
Ann Marie Durkan	Ruth McManus, Juliana Adelman	Understanding the place of animals and animal-related industries in twentieth century Dublin City between c.1910 and c.1973	PhD	2025
Michael Grant	James Kelly	Electoral politics in county Carlow, 1761 -1841: coalition, consensus and contestation	PhD	2025
Noel Carolan	Daithí Ó Corráin	The politics of Ireland’s food supply, 1895 to 1923: through peace, war, revolution and partition	PhD	2025
Michael Loughman	Daithí Ó Corráin	Doctor, republican, statesman: James Ryan and the development of the independent Irish state, 1892-1970	PhD	2025
Joe Rodgers	Daithí Ó Corráin	Sackville Street, c. 1782-1930: A commercial and social history of Dublin’s principal street	PhD	2024
Clair McDonald	Jonathan Cherry	Colonial geographies of Stradbally, Co. Laois: landholding, society and landscape on the Cosby and Walsh-Kemmis landed estates, c. 1640 to c. 1850	PhD	2024
James Akpu	Daithí Ó Corráin	Irish Missionary Enterprise in Nigeria, 1885-1975	PhD	2023
Conor Murray	William Murphy	More than a game: rugby and association football in Ireland, 1921-1990	PhD	2022
Andrew Dorman	James Kelly	The experience of soldiering in Ireland in the eighteenth century	PhD	2022
Michael Duggan	James Kelly	‘Twenty hearts beating as none’: primary education in Ireland, 1899-1922	PhD	2021
Una Palcic	Jonathan Cherry	An historical geography of landownership, landholding, and landscape in the barony of Demifore, county Meath: circa 1700-circa 1830s	MPhil	2021
Iemima Ploscariu	Maria Falina	A dappled people: Jewish, Roma, and Romanian evangelicals challenging nationalism in interwar Romania	PhD	2021
Deirdre Foley	Leeann Lane	'Women as citizens': women's groups and the commission on the status of women in Ireland, c. 1967-1979	PhD	2020
Gerard Hanley	Daithí Ó Corráin	Labour relations, government and trade unionism in independent Ireland, 1922-1946	PhD	2020
Gerri O’Neill	Leeann Lane	Private lives and public personas: female participation in the IRA during Ireland's War of Independence, 1919-1921	PhD	2020
Emma Barry	Ruth McManus	'Lost in a concrete jungle': community perspectives on the criteria for the development of a sustainable community in Irish urban areas	MPhil	2019
Gary Carville	William Murphy (co-supervised with Gabriel Flynn)	Ireland and Vatican II: aspects of episcopal engagement with and reception of a Church Council, 1959-1977	PhD	2019
Seamus Cullen	Daithí Ó Corráin	The impact of the Irish Revolution on a garrison county: Kildare, 1912-1923	PhD	2019
Pat McGarty	William Murphy	Co. Leitrim: politics and war, 1912-1923	PhD	2019
Mary MacDiarmada	Daithí Ó Corráin	'The god of our small world': Art O'Brien and Irish nationalism in London, 1900-1925	PhD	2018
Kevan O’Rourke	Leeann Lane	William Carelton's pre-famine fiction: shifting political perspectives	PhD	2018