Find a Research Supervisor

If you are interesting in doing research at the INIHR, whether that is as a postgraduate student or a postdoctoral researcher, the first thing that you need to do is to find a research supervisor to discuss your project with. Below is a list of Supervisor's research interests. If you want to find out more, click on their name.

Once you have identified someone that you would like to work with you should email them with a short outline of your project, and they will advise you about the next steps to take.

List of Supervisors' Research Interests

Dr Jérôme aan de Wiel

Research interests: Twentieth-century Irish and European history (home rule crisis, First World War, Second World War, post-war relief and history of civilians, European integration, Cold War, East Germany, more specifically political, Church, diplomatic, war, espionage and relief history.

Dr John Borgonovo

Research interests: Twentieth Century Irish History, Ireland and the 1st World War, the Irish Revolution, 1916-1923.

Dr Damian Bracken

Research interests: early Irish culture and contacts with continental Europe; Hiberno-Latin literature, especially the works of Columbanus and his ideas of authority, identity, and orthodoxy; monasticism; early Ireland, Britain, and Rome.

Dr Ciara Breathnach

Research interests: modern Ireland; gender history; social history of health and medicine; death and mortality; prison medicine; public health nursing; history of family; life cycles; migration.

Dr Bozena Cierlik

Research interests: Polish history, East Central European history, Polish and East Central
European nationalism, Balkan history from WWI, methodology of history; Human Computer Interface (HCI), Usability.

Dr Eugene Costello

Research interests: environmental history of late medieval and early modern Europe; archaeology of marginalised rural communities; history of farming practices, especially the rearing and herding of animals; adaptations to climate change, especially during the Little Ice Age; the role of historical data in present-day landscape management and nature conservation.

Dr Malgorzata Krasnodebska-D’Aughton

Research interests: Cultural and religious history of the Middle Ages, art and scriptural exegesis, illuminated manuscripts, in particular Insular manuscripts and manuscripts in Polish libraries, material culture of the Irish mendicant orders.

Dr Finola Doyle O’Neill

Research interests: Irish media history, cultural identity and Irish broadcasting history, Irish identity and Anglo-American hegemony, German media history, cinematic representations of Ireland, legal History.

Dr David Edwards

Research interests: Power, politics and society in Ireland, 1350-1650; religion and sectarianism in the Age of Reformations; migration in Irish and British history c.1450-1650.

Dr David Fitzgerald

Research interests: US foreign and military policy, including counterinsurgency doctrine, and the relationship between the US military and American society and culture.

Dr Jason Harris

Research interests: Early-modern European religion and science; the history of political thought; 16th century Belgium, the Netherlands and north-west Germany; Irish Renaissance Latin; civic humanism and friendship networks; humanist geography and antiquarianism.

Dr Detmar Klein

Research interests: 19th and 20th century French and German History; German nationalism; nationalism and regionalism; humour and national identity; Alsace; Franco-German relations; German legal history; history of ideas; Jewish history; racism and anti-Semitism.

Dr Jonas Kreienbaum

Research interests: 20th century economic history, particularly economic crises, colonial history since 1850, decolonization, concentration camps, violence and genocide.

Dr Andrew McCarthy

Research interests: 20th century Irish financial and administrative history; postwar Irish public health, economic modernisation of Ireland in the 1960s.

Ms Katherine McGarry

Research interests: comparative European politics, Mediterranean politics, party systems, the European Union, the processes of Europeanisation and European integration since 1945.

Dr Hiram Morgan

Research interest: Early modern Ireland and Europe; state formation; cultural politics; imperialism and historiography.

Mr Rory O’Dwyer

Research interests: Nineteenth and twentieth century Irish history; the Irish diaspora worldwide - the Irish emigrant experience; the politics of commemoration in modern Ireland; nationalism and cultural identity in Ireland.

Dr Donal Ó Drisceoil

Research interests: 19th and 20th century Irish history.

Dr Mervyn O’Driscoll

Research interests: nuclear politics and diplomacy; Irish foreign and security policy since 1916; 20th century Ireland; international history & International Relations; post-1945 Britain and France; European integration history.

Dr Maeve O’Riordan

Research interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish and British women's history as well as in country house studies.

Dr Jay Roszman

Research interests: 19th Century Irish and British History, history of the British Empire, Land Issues, Popular Violence, British State Policy, and Historiography.

Prof David Ryan

Research interests: The history of US foreign policy, Central America especially Nicaragua and El Salvador, inter-American relations, the United States and the Middle East, US intervention in regional conflict, Vietnam and US collective memory.

Dr Diarmuid Scully

Research interests: Bede, Gerald of Wales, and medieval constructions of Irish and English identities, their classical and patristic models and early modern impacts. The Hereford world-map, medieval geographical thought and its Judaeo-Christian and classical inheritance.

Dr Oisín Wall

Research interests: contemporary Irish history, marginalised communities, subculture histories, drug history, prison history, history of medicine in Ireland and Britain, mid-twentieth century British history, the history of the counter-culture, and the history of psychiatry.

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