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Ongoing Projects
2022-2026. MALCONTENTS: Order and Disorder in the Early Modern World of Learning.
Funding body: IRC, Irish Research Council Laureate Award (Consolidator)
Funding awarded c.€600,000
Principal Investigator: Dr Richard Kirwan.
Project Team: Dr Richard Kirwan, Dr Colin Donnelly, Ms Ciara Sheehan.
2021-2024. OS200 Digitally Remapping Ireland’s Ordnance Survey Heritage.
Funding body: IRC and AHRC, UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities Research
Funding awarded c.€740,000
Principal Investigators: Dr Catherine Porter (UL) and Professor Keith Lilley (QUB).
2013-15. Irish Records Linkage, 1864-1913
Funding body: IRC, Research Project Grant
Funding awarded €329,181
Principal Investigators: Dr Ciara Breathnach (UL) & Sandra Collins, (Digital Repository of Ireland/RIA).
2013-2016. A study of women in the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, 1919 to 1979
IRC, Postgraduate Scholarship
IRC Scholar: Ann Marie O’Brien-Graham
Supervisor: Professor Bernadette Whelan
Completed Projects
2011/12. Augmented Reality Phone Application: ‘Irelandundersiege’
Funding body: NAIRTL.
Funding awarded: €20,000
Principal Investigators: Prof. Bernadette Whelan (UL), Robert Hutchison (UL).
Team: J.O’Callaghan (UL), D.Fleming (UL), P. Lenihan NUIG, Moore RIA.
2010-11. Death and funerary practices, 1829-1901
Funding bodies: IRCHSS/Eneclan Co.Ltd.
Funding awarded: €57,000
Principal Investigator: Dr Ciara Breathnach (UL)
Team: D. Butler UL, L. Geary (UCC) P. Gray (QUB).
2008-12. Graduate Research Education Programme, ‘Gender, Culture and Identity: local, national, international.’
Funding body: IRCHSS
Funding awarded: €991,020
Principal Investigators: Prof. Bernadette Whelan (UL), Prof. Gerardine Meaney (UCD).
2008-10. From the cradle to the Grave: life-cycles in modern Ireland
Funding body: IRCHSS
Funding awarded: €97,745
Principal Investigator: Professor Anthony McElligott (UL); Co Investigator: Dr Ciara Breathnach (UL) (2008-10); Post Doctoral Research Associate: Dr Georgina Laragy (July-December 2010).
2007-10. Inventing and re-inventing the Irish woman: external influences on gender construction 1760-2005
Funding body: IRCHSS
Funding awarded: €150,000
Team: Prof. Bernadette Whelan (UL), Prof. Geraldine Meaney (UCD), Prof. Mary O’Dowd (Queen’s University Belfast)
Project website: http://www.ul.ie/inventing/
2006-10. Comparative Civic Cultures
Funding Body: IRCHSS/AMAI
Funding awarded: €160,000.
Principal Investigator: Professor Anthony McElligott (UL)
Team: Nadine Rossol, Dr Matthew Potter, Professor Barry Doyle (Huddersfield), Professor Tim Kirk (Newcastle)
2004-06. Women and public life: north and south
Funding Body: HEA
Funding awarded: €150,000.
Principal Investigators: Prof. Bernadette Whelan (UL), Prof. Gerardine Meaney (UCD).
IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL (IRC/IRCHSS) Fellows and Scholars
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Jason Begley, B.A., Ph.D. (Limerick) |
Postgraduate Scholar, 2000-3 |
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Tina Dingel, M.A. (St. Andrews), Ph.D. (Limerick) |
Postgraduate Scholar, 2002-4 |
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David Fleming, B.A. (Limerick), M.St. (Oxon), D.Phil (Oxon) |
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007-9 |
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Mary Healy B.A. (LSAD), M.A. (Limerick), Ph.D. (Limerick) |
Postgraduate Scholar, 2010-11 |
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John Maguire, B.A., Ph.D. (Limerick) |
Postgraduate Scholar, 2003-6 |
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William O’Brien, B.A., M.A. H. Dip. Ed (N.U.I.), Ph.D. (Limerick) |
Postgraduate Scholar, 1999-0 |
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John O’Callaghan, B.A., M.A. (Limerick), H.Dip.Ed (N.U.I.) |
Postgraduate Scholar, 2006-8 |
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Anne O’Connell, B.A. (N.U.I.) M.A. Ph.D. (Limerick) |
Postgraduate Scholar, 1994-8 |
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Catherine O’Connor, B.Rel.Sc. (N.U.I.) M.A., Ph.D. (Limerick) |
Postgraduate Scholar, 2002-5 |
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Matthew Potter, B.A. (London), Ph.D. (N.U.I.) |
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006-8 |
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Nadine Rossol, M.A. (St. Andrews), Ph.D. (Limerick) |
Postgraduate Scholar, 2003-5 |
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Nadine Rossol, M.A. (St. Andrews), Ph.D. (Limerick) |
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007-9 |
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Bernadette Whelan, B.A. M.A. Ph.D. (N.U.I.) |
Senior Research Fellow, 2005-6 |
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Gavin Wilk, B.A., (Villanova), M.A. (Limerick) |
Postgraduate Scholar, 2008-10 |
IRCHSS GRADUATE RESEARCH EDUCATION PROGRAMME 'GENDER CULTURE AND IDENTITY'
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Patrick McMahon , B.A. Limerick GREP Scholar |
2008-12 |
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Alexandra McCarthy GREP Doctoral Student |
2010-13 |
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