Research Interests

Main area of interest is political mobilisation and its social and cultural bases, in modern Ireland in the first instance, but also in other places, particularly the Netherlands.
Current concerns include: confessionalism; the politics of culture and ethnicity; democracy; trans-national history; and historiography.

Publications

Ireland (London and New York, 2003) (Inventing the Nation)
'Republicans and democracy in modern Irish politics' in Fearghal McGarry (ed.), Republicanism in modern Ireland (Dublin, 2003), pp 8-22

Introduction and primary narrative for 1870-91 in Ireland under the Union II, 1870-1921, (Oxford, 1996), edited by W.E. Vaughan, pp 1-80, (A New History of Ireland, vi)

Primary narrative for 1850-70 in Ireland under the Union I, 1800-1870, (Oxford, 1989) edited by W.E. Vaughan, pp 372-450, (A New History of Ireland, v)

The fenians in context: Irish politics and society, 1848-82, (Dublin, 1985; 2nd edition, 1998)

Charles J. Kickham (1828-82): a study in Irish nationalism and literature, (Dublin, 1979)

Contact Details

Rhetoric 53a,
South Campus,
NUI Maynooth

 

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