The School of History - Graduate Studies

UCC is a very active centre of graduate research in History. Over one hundred MA/MPhil/PhD theses have been successfully completed in the past decade. 

Many books have resulted from postgraduate research in the School, including Daniel G. Bradley, Farm labourers: Irish struggle 1900-1976 (Belfast 1988); David N. Buckley, James Fintan Lalor, radical (Cork 1990); L.M. Geary, The plan of campaign, 1886-1891 (Cork 1986); Brian Girvin, Between two worlds: politics and economy in independent Ireland (Dublin 1989); Benjamin Kline, Genesis of apartheid: British African policy in the colony of Natal 1845-1893 (London 1988); Patrick Maume, 'Life that is exile': Daniel Corkery and the search for Irish Ireland (Belfast 1993); Donal Ó Drisceoil, Censorship in Ireland, 1939-1945: neutrality, politics and society (Cork 1996); Michelle O'Riordain, The Gaelic mind and the collapse of the Gaelic world (Cork 1990); Edmund Hogan, Catholic missionaries in Liberia (Cork 1981); J.P.P. O'Shea, Post-Famine Ireland: a study of County Tipperary 1850-1891 (Dublin & Atlantic Highlands NJ 1983). Numerous articles have also been published.

The School of History offers programmes and modules of study leading to MA, MPhil and PhD modules. Further information, application procedures and regulations are set out in the School of History’s Postgraduate Brochure which is available from the Senior Executive Assistant, School of History, Tyrconnell, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. Tel. xx 353 (0)21 4902755; e-mail. Deirdre@ucc.ie. The text of the brochure is also available, together with the appropriate application forms, on the School’s web page at http://www.ucc.ie/academic/history/

Applicants should also read the College Calendar issued for their year of application.