MA Public History Heritage and Culture (05) Module leader
-Graduate Seminar in Irish Cultural History
-Introduction to Public History & Practice
-Digital Humanities
Supervision
Supervision of fourth-year undergraduate Final Year Projects
Outreach activities
2022 WHAI Conference organising committee member
Currently preparing an exhibition as part of UL50 entitled ‘a celebration of 50 years of ‘pioneering women’ at the University of Limerick
Currently writing a book that will document the social history of the University of Limerick over the past five decades
Committees & Associations
Committee member WHAI
Other activities
Conference Papers
2022: The protection of female Jewish emigrants in the East End of London: An account of the work of The Jewish Association for the Protection of Women, Girls and Children 1885 – 1943 (Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain 8 May 2022)
2019: ‘Richard Stanislaus Devane S.J. Social Commentator and Advocate, 1876-1951’ (MIC Limerick History Research Seminar24 September 2019)
2018: ‘Keep your mind well occupied [and] crowd out the devil: Social purity work and young working-class men, 1875-1922’ (Irish Conference of Historians XXXII, UCC 26 to 28 April)
2016: ‘Keep your mind well occupied [and] crowd out the devil: Social purity work and young working-class men, 1875-1922’ (Limerick History Research Seminar, University of Limerick, 1 November)
2016: ‘Shining a light into dark alleys: Vigilance and patrol work in Dublin, 1914-1918’ (Department of History Graduate Seminar, University of Limerick 2 March)
2015: ‘Protecting our girls’, female emigration from Ireland, 1885 to 1922 (Economic and Social History Society of Ireland Annual Research Conference, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick 27-28 November)
2014: ‘Richard Devane S.J. and his campaigns to prevent foreign cultural youth of Ireland 1920-1951’ (Society of Jesus, the Jesuits in Ireland Conference, Dublin 19 – 20 September)
2014: ‘The Irish Girls Friendly Society: adaption and re-organisation in post-independent Ireland 1922 1939’ (Outsiders in Independent Ireland, 1922-49 Research Conference, National University Ireland, Maynooth, 5 September)
2014: ‘The campaigns to protect the moral character of Irish women emigrants to England (Annual Irish History Students Conference, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, 15 February)
2012: ‘The campaign against immoral literature and the search for a Gaelic Catholic identity, 1900- 29’ (Swansea University, United Kingdom Postgraduate History Forum; Sex Identity and Morality, 12-13 June)
Public engagements
2019: ‘Immoral literature and the origins of the Censorship of Publications Act, 1929’, The People’s Museum, Limerick
2011: ‘Campaign against ‘evil literature’ in Ireland 1911-1929’, Castleconnell Historical Society
2009: ‘History of Limerick Cinema, 1896-1976’, Adare and District Historical Society
Publications
Books
Currently writing a book on the University of Limerick based on the oral history testimonies gathered as part of the UL oral history project.
Richard Stanislaus Devane S.J. Social Commentator and Advocate, 1876-1951 (Dublin, 2019)
Peer Reviewed Journals
‘Richard Devane S.J. Social Commentator in the Free State, 1920-1951, Studies, an Irish Quarterly Review, [Winter 2014/15], Vol. 103, No. 412 pp. 562-73
Other Journals
‘Hidden History of Limerick Skating Rink’, Old Limerick Journal, [December, 2011], Vol. 45, pp. 52-5
Electronic Publications
User perspectives: Dr Martin Walsh on the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls, Women and Children
University of Southampton Special Collections (Date of publication 30 June 2020)
