Research Projects

Current Research Projects

 

Gearoid Barry

• Religion, Civil society and Demobilization after the First World War in Transnational Perspective: France, Britain, the USA, and Canada – Projected output of an authored monograph.
• Transnational Pacifism in the Era of the First World War – Projected output of an authored monograph.

Sarah-Anne Buckley

• Youthful Expectations: Youth and Adolescence in Ireland, 1870-1960 – Output resulting in an authored monographto be submitted for publication in 2020 - NUIG School of Humanities Research Incentivisation Fund (Feb 2015): €1500.
•  Institutionalisation: The Irish Case - College of Arts Research Funding (2016-present): €1800 for a Research Assistant.

Caitriona Clear

• Female White-Collar Workers in Ireland, 1920s-1970s – Projected output of an authored monograph.
• Women Writers in Ireland and the UK 1920s-1950s – Projected output of an authored monograph.

John Cunningham

• Irish Labour Radicals in the Wider World – Output resulting in two journal articles and an authored monograph:

a)    ‘Tom Glynn and Mary Fitzgerald: Two Irish syndicalist in pre-World War One South Africa’, Immigrants and Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora, vol. 35, no. 3 (2017).

b)   ‘The wartime journalism of Tom Glynn, 1914-16’, Australian Journal of Irish Studies, vol. 17, 105-27.

c)    Biography of transnational labour radical Tom Glynn (1881-1934) to be published in 2019.

Funded by the O’Donnell Fellowship in Irish Studies at the University of Melbourne for 2017, and by the College of Art’s Research Support Scheme at NUI Galway in 2017 and 2018.

• Hardiman and After: Galway, Culture and Society, 1820-2020 – Output resulting in one article and one edited book:

a)      ‘The mayor / admiral of Claddagh’, in John Cunningham and Emmet O’Connor, Lives on the Left: Studies in Irish Radical Leadership (Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. 22-34.

b)      An edited collection of essays to be published by ASP/Arcadia in November 2019.

Enrico Dal Lago

• Modernisation, Violence, and Agrarian Reform in the American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno after 1865 – Projected output of an authored monograph.
• Lincoln, il costruttore di nazioni (Lincoln, The Nation-Builder) – Output resulting in an authored monograph and the first full-length biography of Lincoln in Italian to be published by Salerno Editrice in 2021.
• Writing the History of Slavery – Output resulting in one article and one coedited book:

a)    ‘Emancipation from Slavery and Serfdom, and Land Rights: The Americas and Eastern Europe Compared’, Moving the Social: Journal of Social History & the History of Social Movements 56 (2016), pp. 5-23.

b)        Coedited collection of essays entitled Writing the History of Slavery to be published by Bloomsbury in 2019.

Tomas Finn

• The influence of intellectuals in post WWII Ireland: Patrick Lynch and the Commonwealth – Projected output of an authored monograph.

Alison Forrestal

• The New Congregations in Bourbon France:  Innovation, Adaptation and Survival – Projected output of an authored monograph - School of Humanities Research Incentivisation Scheme (2018): €1,011.

Mary Harris

• The political and cultural activism on Eoin MacNeill – Projected output resulting in one article and one authored monograph:

a)      Journal article on Eoin MacNeill in the context of postcolonial studies to be published in 2019.

b)      Authored monograph on Eoin MacNeill’s impact on culture and politics to be published in 2020.

Roisin Healy

• Colonialism within Europe: Ireland and Prussian Poland Compared, 1840-1918 (2013-present) – Projected output of an authored monograph

Padraig Lenihan

• The Killer Epidemic Diseases of European Armies between the 1670s and the 1760s – Projected output of an authored monograph.

Kim LoPrete

• Stephen of Blois, Count & Crusader (c. 1044-1102) – Projected output of an authored monograph.
• Theory and Practice in Writing the Lives of Aristocratic Women in the Middle Ages – Projected output of an authored monograph.

Niall Ó Ciosáin

• The Print Cultures of the Celtic Languages, 1700-1900 – Projected output of an authored monograph.

Dáibhí Ó Cróinín

• Insular Manuscripts, AD 630- 850. Networks of Knowledge. An International Research Network (2017-21) [Based in the University of Leicester, in partnership with the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, British Library, NUI Galway, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and Trinity College Dublin] – Funded by the Leverhulme Trust (UK): £87,500.
• Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources [DMLCS] – Funded by the Royal Irish Academy: €100,000 p.a. + €86,574 IRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.
• Corpus Christianorum / Scriptores Celtigenae. [Ancillary project of RIA DMLCS project that publishes new critical editions of Hiberno-Latin texts used in the database of the RIA Dictionary] Ongoing. Funded by the Royal Irish Academy/Brepols Publishers (Belgium): €35,000 p.a.

Kevin O Sullivan

• Green Futures: Futures Thinking and the Environmental Movement (2017-present) – Funded by NUI Galway College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies Research

Support Scheme: €1,705.

• The NGO Moment: The Globalisation of Humanitarianism, 1968-85 (2011-19) -Funded by the European Commission/Irish Research Council (Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2011-12; €79,000; and NUI Galway Millennium Fund, 2014-18: €7,500.

 

Past Research Projects

 

Gearóid Barry

1)      1916 in Global Context: Connections and Comparisons (2016-18) – Output resulting in a coedited collection of essays: 1916 in Global Context: An Anti-Imperial Moment (Routledge, 2018).

2)    Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I (2014-16) – Output resulting in a coedited collection of essays: Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I (Brill, 2016).

Sarah-Anne Buckley

1)      Youth in Transition: Migration, Identity and Culture, 1870-present - Enterprise Ireland funding for the development of an ERC application (Sept 2016): €8000.

2)      Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland – Output resulting in an edited collection of essays to be published by Liverpool University Pressin 2018 - NUIG School of Humanities Grant-in-Aid (Sept 2016): €1500

3)      Youth in Context - NUIG Millennium Fund for Research Assistant (Oct 2014-Mar 2017): €2500                            

Caitriona Clear

Women's Magazines (2013-16) – Output resulting in an authored monograph: Women's Voices: Women's Magazines in Ireland in the 1950s and 60s (Bloomsbury, 2016).

Enrico Dal Lago

1)      Civil Wars and Agrarian Unrest in the Confederate South and Southern Italy, 1861-1865 (2012-18) – Output resulting in one authored monograph and two articles:

a)      Civil War and Agrarian Unrest: The Confederate South and Southern Italy (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

b)      ‘Agrarian resistance to modernization and nation-building: East Tennessee vs. Northern Terra di Lavoro, 1860-61’ in Joe Regan and Cathal Smith, eds., Agrarian Reform and Resistance in an Age of Globalization, 1780-1914 (Routledge, 2018).

c)         ‘The Nineteenth-Century ‘Other Souths’, Modernization, and Nation-Building: Pushing the Boundaries of Comparison’ in Jeff Forret and Christine Sears, eds., New Directions in Slavery Studies: Commodification, Community, and Comparison (Louisiana State University Press, 2015), pp. 219-238.

2)      The Age of Lincoln and Cavour (2012-15) – Output resulting in one authored monograph and one article:

a)      The Age of Lincoln and Cavour: Comparative Perspective on Nineteenth-Century American and Italian Nation-Building (New York: Palgrave, 2015)

b)        ‘Lincoln, Cavour, and National Unification: American Republicanism and Italian Liberal Nationalism in Comparative Perspective”, Journal of the Civil War Era 3:1 (2013), pp. 85-113.

Alison Forrestal

Vincent de Paul:  The Making of an Icon (2006-17) – Output resulting in an authored monograph: Vincent de Paul, the Lazarist Mission, and French Catholic Reform (Oxford University Press, 2017) – Funded by the British Academy €8,761; the Irish Research Council €104,683; DePaul Office of Mission and Values €53,000; NUIG Millennium Fund €8,500; and NUIG Publications Fund €2,100.

Róisín Healy

1)      1916 in Global Context: Connections and Comparisons (2016-18) – Output resulting in a coedited collection of essays: 1916 in Global Context: An Anti-Imperial Moment (Routledge, 2018) – Funded by the Irish Research Council New Foundations: €5,690.

2)      Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I (2014-16) – Output resulting in a coedited collection of essays: Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I (Brill, 2016).

3)        Colonialism within Europe: Fact or Fancy ? (2012-14) – Output resulting in a coedited collection: The Shadow of Colonialism on Europe’s Modern Past (Palgrave, 2014) – Funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: €4,750.

Pádraig Lenihan

An annotated translation of the manuscript Poema de Hibernia (2013-18) – Output resulting in a coedited book: Poema de Hibernia: A Jacobite Latin Epic on the Williamite Wars (Irish Manuscript Commission, 2018).

Kevin O'Sullivan

1)      Humanitarian History: Past Practice into Future Policy [Collaboration with Trócaire, Jan-Sept 2017] – Funded by the Irish Research Council: €14,864.

2)      Non-State Humanitarianism: From Colonialism to Human Rights (Jan 2013-April 2014) - Funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council: £26,000); and the Irish Research Council: €3,335.