Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Irish History
• British Political History c.1780-1900
• Comparative Famine History
• Pre-Troubles History of Northern Ireland

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Public outreach & key achievements

Books:

• William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism (University College Dublin Press, 2023)
• The Great Irish Famine and Social Class: Conflicts, Responsibilities, Representations. ed. with Marguerite Corporaal (Peter Lang, 2019).
• La Grande Famine en Irlande, 1845-1851. with Pauline Collombier-Lakeman (Editions Fahrenheit, 2015).
• The Irish Lord Lieutenancy c.1541-1922. ed. with Olwen Purdue (University College Dublin Press, 2012)
• The Making of the Irish Poor Law 1815-43. (Manchester University Press, 2009).
• The Memory of Catastrophe. ed. with Kendrick Oliver (Manchester University Press, 2004).
• Famine, Land and Politics: British Government and Irish Society 1843–1850. (Irish Academic Press, 1999)
• The Irish Famine. (Thames & Hudson, 1995).
  

Projects:

• Paul Strzelecki and the Great Famine (2019) Exhibition catalogue (Embassy of Poland in Ireland funded, 2018-19) https://strzelecki.ie/
• ‘Welfare and Public Health in Belfast and the North of Ireland, c.1800-1973‘ (AHRC funded, 2012-15) https://blogs.qub.ac.uk/belfastpovhist/

Research students

PhD Title	A Moon among lesser Stars: William Windham and the English Right, 1780-1810
Country	Northern Ireland
PhD Title	Valleys of Fear: Mapping Irish Secret Societies between Agrarian and Industrial Unrest, 1840-1880
Country	Sweden
PhD Title	Alexander Brown and Transatlantic Radical Irish Presbyterianism, 1750 – 1850
Country	Northern Ireland

 

Alumni: Where are they now

PhD Title	Education, famine, and conversion: Evangelical missions’ strategies and accusations of Souperism in Catholic Ireland, 1800-1869
Country	France
Current Position	Lecturer in History, University of Lorraine
PhD Title	The political life of Charles Owen O’Conor, 1860-1906
Country	Ireland
Current Position	Research Administrator in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Leeds Beckett University
PhD Title	The churches and emigration from nineteenth-century Ireland
Country	Ireland
Current Position	Lecturer in History, Maynooth University

 

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• Faculty of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences

• School Of History, Anthropology, Philosophy And Politics

• Institute of Irish Studies, QUB (Director)

• International Network of Irish Famine Studies

• Personal webpage