Professor Pierce Grace

History of medicine, disease and healthcare in Ireland.

Dr John Logan

Poverty in the eighteenth-century city; schooling, language and literacy in the nineteenth century; education policy, Ireland 1920-90.

Professor Anthony McElligott MIRA, FRHistS, Emeritus Professor of History

Germany in the twentieth century, including urban politics, cultural history; Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean.

Dr Kirsten Mulrennan

Archivistics; medical history, including psychiatric history and sensitive archival records; archival literacy, education and outreach; digital humanities and digital scholarship.

Dr Matthew Potter

Urban History; History of local government; history of Limerick; death and cemeteries; social housing; Irish textiles; local history; history of modern Ireland; the Anglo-Irish landed elite 1700-1921.

Professor Bernadette Whelan

MIRA, Associate Professor Emerita

Irish foreign policy 1900-60; nineteenth and twentieth-century American-Irish relations; recovery and reconstruction after the Second World War; women in Ireland, 1900-60.

 

Professor Jan Plamper

Emeritus Professor of History

Jan specialised in the History of Emotions and the Senses, the History of Migration and Russian History.

Contact the Department of History

The Department of History Office is located in the Main Building in Room C1076
The Head of Department is Dr. David Fleming
Individual staff members can be contacted through the details on their profile pages in the staff section
Email: history@ul.ie
Phone: +353 61 202280