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History

Research interests: 

History of medicine in medieval Ireland, General and vascular surgery

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Kirsten Mulrennan History

Dr Kirsten Mulrennan

Research interests:

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

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Catríona Paul History

Dr Catriona Paul

Research interests: 

American history, 1700 – 1900; human-animal histories; social and cultural history; the American West.

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Matthew Potter

Dr Matthew Potter

Research interests:

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.

Research interests: 

The history of economic democracy and the historical relationship between capitalism and religion.

Dr Stephen Griffin

Research interests:

Early modern Europe; early modern Ireland; Jacobitism; New Diplomatic History; history of international relations; history of elites; court studies; diaspora studies.

 

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Holly O'Farrell

Dr Holly O'Farrell

Research interests:

Histories of collecting, particularly women’s roles in the collection and preservation of Middle Eastern art and material culture. Exhibition histories and the display of empire in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. 

Museum and curatorial practices, including decolonial approaches and community engagement

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