Brian Griffin
1991
| Areas of expertise | I have a broad interest in the social history of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ireland. |
| Keywords | Royal Irish Constabulary; Dublin Metropolitan Police; Fenians; cycling; sport; bicycles; Percy French; cartoons; social history |
| Nickname | Brian Griffin |
| Membership Type |
| Education | Milverton National School, 1967-68 |
| Employment | Temporary tutor, NUI Maynooth, 1982-83 Teaching assistant, Loyola University of Chicago, 1983-86 Temporary full-time lecturer, Maynooth,1987-88, 1990-91 Junior Research Fellow, Irish Studies Institute, Queen’s University Belfast, 1991-1992 Temporary lecturer and tutor, Maynooth, 1992-93 Reviewer, H.W. Wilson Publishing Company, Dublin, 1994-1995 Senior lecturer in History, Bath Spa University, September 1995-January 2020 Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of History, Maynooth University (April 2020) |
| Consultancy work | Consultant for Mo High Nelly Álainn, a documentary programme on the impact of the “High Nelly” pushbike on Irish society in the first half of the twentieth century, broadcast on TG4 on Sunday 14 November 2012 and Monday 15 November 2012 Consultant for Cycling Ireland’s Hall of Fame, which was inaugurated on 2 November 2013 Consultant for Black ’47, a film set in Ireland during the Great Famine, which was released in Irish cinemas in September 2018 Manuscript reader for Liverpool University Press and Cork University Press Referee for articles in Irish Historical Studies, Irish Studies Review, Éire-Ireland, Journal of British Studies, International Journal for the Study of Sport, Sport in History, Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, Contemporary British History, Irish Literary Supplement, ICON (Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology), Journal of Migration History, Open Library of Humanities and Immigrants & Minorities. Referee for Economic and Social Research Council Reviewer for Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Reviewer, NUI Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships in the Humanities |
| Management & Administrative experience | Conferences organised: ‘Ireland and the Union: Questions of Identity’, annual conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Bath Spa University College, 9-11 April 1999 ‘Margins, Mainstreams and Moving Frontiers’, biennial conference of British Association for Irish Studies, Bath Spa University College, 10-12 September 1999 (co-organiser) ‘Irish Literature: Borders and Border Crossings’, International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, Bath Spa University College, 24-29 July 2000 (co-organiser) First Annual Postgraduate Irish Studies in Britain conference, Bath Spa University, 12 November 2005 Second Annual Postgraduate Irish Studies in Britain conference, Bath Spa University, 18 November 2006 Third Annual Postgraduate Irish Studies conference, Bath Spa University, 17 November 2007 ‘Leaving in Irish History, Politics and Culture’, part of Taking French Leave: The 11th Percy French Festival, Castlecoote House, Co. Roscommon, 10th-12th July 2019 |
| Teaching | Sample of courses taught: More than a Game: Sport and the Modern World c.1800-c.2000 |
| Outreach activities | Conference papers/public talks ‘Playing the “Greater Game”: Irish Footballers and Irish Football Fans in the Great War’, Maynooth University, Department of History Research Seminars, 14 November 2024 ‘The Jarvey, 1889-1890: The Irish Punch?’, The 16th Percy French Festival: Our Great Disconnect, Castlecoote, Co.Roscommon, 17 July 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak9umBLlDJg
‘Cartoons in Conflict: Larry O’Hooligan and the First World War’, Economic and Social History Society of Ireland annual conference, University College Dublin, 18 November 2023 ‘”Making a Killing?”: Newspaper Advertising and the Militarisation of Irish Consumer Culture during the Great War”, Economic and Social History Society of Ireland annual conference, Maynooth University, 29 October 2022 ‘Ireland and the Great War: Mr Punch’s View’, Economic and Social History Society of Ireland annual conference, NUI Galway, 4 December 2021 ‘The Constabulary Barracks as a Dwelling in Victorian and Edwardian Ireland’, Dwelling(s) in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland annual conference, University College Cork, 24 June 2021 ‘Leaving the Irish Police: The Dublin Metropolitan Police and Royal Irish Constabulary’, Leaving in Irish History, Politics and Culture, Castlecoote House, Co. Roscommon, 10 July 2019 ‘The Irish and the Prevention of Terrorism Acts’, Muslims as the ‘New Suspect Communities’: Historical Perspectives, Contemporary Considerations, Red Brick Building, Glastonbury, 2 March 2016 ‘Sport in Ireland during the Great Famine’, International Sport and Leisure History Symposium, Manchester Metropolitan University Cheshire campus, 27 February 2016 ‘Anti-Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Bath: From Catholic Emancipation to Papal Infallibility’, Benedectine Bath conference, Bath Guildhall, 10 July 2015 ‘Percy French: A Portrait of the Artist as a Cyclist’, 10th Sports History Ireland conference, St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, 20 September 2014 ‘Cyclists’ Travel Accounts in Late Victorian and Edwardian Ireland’, Life-Writing Study Day, Bath Spa University, 31 May 2014 ‘Irish Cycling History: Before and After Dunlop’, Ulster Museum, Belfast, 7 May 2014 ‘Irish Crime and Violence as depicted in the Illustrated Police News, 1867-1900’, Crime, Violence and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century: 19th annual conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, University of Northumbria, 27 June 2013 ‘Battling Anti-Christ: Anti-Catholicism in Bath from the 1820s to the 1860s’, Holburne Museum, Bath, 23 April 2013 ‘The Cycling Tour in Victorian Ireland’, Leisure and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century, Eighteenth Annual conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin City University, 28 June 2012 ‘The Big House at Play: Archery in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’, Seventh Annual Sports History Ireland conference, Hunt Museum, Limerick, 10 September 2011 ‘The Big House at Play: Archery in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’, Irish Elites in the Nineteenth Century: 17th International Conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, University of Liverpool, 1 July 2011 ‘Punch and the Fenians in the 1860s’, The Black Hand of Republicanism: The Fenians and History conference, Queen’s University of Belfast and University of Ulster, 20-21 June, 2008 ‘Irish Cycling Clubs, 1869-1901’, Associational Culture in Ireland and the Wider World c.1750-c.1940 conference, NUI Maynooth, 16-18 May 2008 ‘An Illusory Freedom? Women and Cycling in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’, Irish Lecture Series, Bath Spa University, 20 February 2008 ‘The Development of Bicycle Racing in Victorian Ireland’, Fourth Annual Sports History Ireland conference, Boston College-Ireland, Dublin, 16 February 2008 ‘The Devil on Wheels? Cycling’s Impact on Nineteenth-Century Ireland’, Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, 28 January 2008 ‘Women and the Cycling Boom in Victorian Ireland: Image and Reality’, Women, Sport and Leisure, Women’s History Network (Midlands Region) conference, University of Worcester, 12 May 2007 ‘Fiction and Cycling in Victorian Ireland’, Representing Sport: Exploring the Literary Turn in Sport History, International Centre for Sport History, De Montfort University, 5 May 2007. ‘Cycling and Women in Victorian Ireland: Image and Reality’, Women in Irish History and Culture conference, University College Dublin, 22 October 2006 ‘Discovering Ireland: Cycling and the Irish Countryside in the Nineteenth Century’, Irish Lecture Series, Bath Spa University, 1 March 2006 ‘The Romance of the Wheel: Cycling Fiction in Victorian Ireland’, Second Sports History Ireland conference, NUI Maynooth, 18 February 2006 ‘The Cycling Craze in Victorian Ireland’, Sports History Ireland inaugural conference, University College Dublin, 18 February 2005 ‘Cycling and the Irish Countryside in the 1880s and 1890s’, symposium in Museum of Rural History, University of Reading, 15 June 2004 ‘The Wheels of Commerce? Cycling agents and Manufacturers, and the Irish Cycling Craze of the late Nineteenth Century’, The State of Play: Sports History in Britain and Ireland, Past, Present and Future, University of Ulster, Belfast campus, 22 November 2003 ‘A Provincial Perspective on the Irish Literary Revival: Katherine Frances Purdon’s Portrayal of Rural Meath’, Themes in Irish Literature and Culture, Bath Spa University, 13 July 2003 ‘The Irish Cycling Craze of the late Nineteenth Century’, Postgraduate History Symposium, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 6 February 2003. ‘The Revival at the Local Level: Katherine Frances Purdon’s Portrayal of Rural Ireland’, The Irish Revival Reappraised, All Hallows College, Dublin, 29 June 2002. ‘Ireland and Terrorism’: part of a panel discussion and question-and-answer session on ‘Perspectives on Terrorism’ organised by Mid-Somerset Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Wells Town Hall, 12 November 2001 ‘Irish Cycling Agents and Retailers in the 1880s and 1890s’, The Commercial World: International Approaches to the History of Retailing and Distribution, 1500-2000, University of Wolverhampton, 13 September 2001 ‘The Gendered World of Irish Cycling, 1880-1900’, Victoria’s Ireland? Irishness and Britishness, 1837-1901, University of Southampton, 20 April 2001 ‘Oppressed, or Willing Oppressors?’: Ireland and the Empire’, Humanities Research Seminars, Bath Spa University College, 15 November 2000 ‘”Frightening the Horses”: Irish Women Cyclists, 1880-1900’, Heartlands and Peripheries in Women’s History, Ninth Annual Women’s History Network Conference, University of Bath, 16 September 2000 ‘”As Happy as Seven Kings”: Cycling in late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’, British Society for Sport History, Liverpool University, 30 April 2000 ‘Holy War in Belfast: Policing the Sectarian City’, Humanities Research Seminars, Bath Spa University College, 15 March 2000 ‘The Offspring of Prostitutes? The Police in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’, University of Southampton, 23 November 1999 ‘On the Margins? The Fenians in Ulster in the 1860s’, Margins, Mainstreams and Moving Frontiers: Biennial Conference of the British Association for Irish Studies, Bath Spa University College, 11 September 1999 ‘Mad Dogs and Irishmen: Rabies in Ireland 1700-1900’, Animals in History and Culture, Bath Spa University College, 3 July 1999 ‘Popular or Pariahs? The Police in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’, Policing in Ireland seminar, Open University, Milton Keynes, 12 February 1999 ‘Bikers, Beards, and Butch Broads in Bloomers: Cycling in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’, Humanities Research Seminars, Bath Spa University College, 22 April 1998 ‘The Royal Irish Constabulary: Pariahs or Good Neighbours?’, plenary, Police, Peelers and Civic Guards: 200 Years of Irish Policing, Cahir Castle, 4 September 1997 ‘The Crimean War and Irish Identity’, War and Identity conference, University of Huddersfield, 12 April 1997 ‘Ireland and the Crimean War’, Irish Encounters: Annual Humanities conference, Bath Spa University College, July 1996 ‘Gender and the Irish Policeman in the Nineteenth Century’, Gender and Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland annual conference, All Hallows College, Dublin, 28-30 April 1995 ‘Ireland and the Crimean War: Participation and Opinion’, Irish Military History Society, Griffith Barracks, Dublin, 9 April 1995 ‘Police and Crime in Nineteenth-Century Kildare’, Tadhg Hayden Memorial Lecture, Kildare, June 1994 ‘Relations between the Police and Public: Dublin 1838-1913’, Old Dublin Society, February 1994 ‘”Before the Peelers”: Policing Belfast, 1800-1865’, Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University of Belfast, February 1992 ‘Life in the Irish Police, 1836-1914’, Economic and Social History of Ireland annual conference, Maynooth, September 1987 ‘Social Dimensions of Fenianism in Leinster and Connacht’, Midwest Regional Conference of the American Committee for Irish Studies, University of Minnesota, October 1985 ‘A New Look at the Fenians’, Irish History Students Association, Youghal, March 1983 |
| Committees & Associations | Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, member Police History Society, member Irish Association of Professional Historians, member International Network for Crimean War Studies, member Royal Irish Constabulary Forum, member |
| Other activities | Whizzing in all Directions: A History of Cycling in Ireland https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history/social-economic-history/whizzing-all-directions-history-cycling-ireland |
| Books | Monographs: Crime and the Criminal Classes in Ireland, 1870-1920 (Cork: Cork University Press, 2024) Cycling in Victorian Ireland (Dublin: Nonsuch, 2006) Sources for the History of Crime in Ireland 1801-1921 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005) The Bulkies: Police and Crime in Belfast, 1800-1865 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1997) Edited collections: (with Ellen McWilliams), Irish studies in Britain: New Perspectives on History and Literature (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010) New Voices in Irish Studies: Essays on History and Literature (Bath: Bath Spa University Press, 2009) |
| Book Chapters | ‘Christmas and the Domestication of the Royal Irish Constabulary’, in Salvador Ryan (ed), Christmas and the Irish: A Miscellany (Dublin: Wordwell Books, 2023), pp 136-140 ‘The Policeman’s Home: The Constabulary Barracks in Victorian and Edwardian Ireland’, in Heather Laird and Jay Roszman (eds), Dwelling(s) in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023), pp 153-179 ‘Sport during the Famine’, in Mike Cronin and John Crowley (eds), Atlas of Irish Sport (Cork: Cork University Press, forthcoming) ‘Cycling in Ireland (1850-1918)’, in Mike Cronin and John Crowley (eds), Atlas of Irish Sport (Cork: Cork University Press, forthcoming) ‘Women and Cycling (1850-1918)’, in Mike Cronin and John Crowley (eds), Atlas of Irish Sport (Cork: Cork University Press, forthcoming) ‘Archery in Ulster in the 1860s and 1870s’, in Mike Cronin and John Crowley (eds), Atlas of Irish Sport (Cork: Cork University Press, forthcoming) ‘Bicycle Polo in Victorian and Edwardian Ireland’, in Mike Cronin and John Crowley (eds), Atlas of Irish Sport (Cork: Cork University Press, forthcoming) ‘Banishing Ennui, Blue Devils and Thoughts of Bad Potatoes: The Country House and Sport and Leisure during the Great Famine’, in Terence Dooley and Christopher Ridgway (eds), Sport and Leisure in the Irish and British Country House (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2019), pp 132-149 ‘The Early History of Cycling in Ireland: Hobby-Horses, Tricycles, Quadricycles and Other Velocipedes’, in Gary Sanderson, Thomas Baker and Phillip P. Sanderson (eds), Cycle History 29: 29th International Cycling History Conference, London, England, 2018 (Verona: ICHC Publications Committee, 2019), pp 116-121 ‘”Bad Roads Will Absolutely Nip in the Bud the New Development”: Cycling Tourism in Ireland in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries’, in Leeann Lane and William Murphy (eds), Leisure and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016), pp 187-206 ‘The Big House at Play: Archery as an Elite Pastime from the 1830s to the 1870s’, in Ciaran O’Neill (ed), Irish Elites in the Nineteenth Century (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013), pp 153-171 ‘Introduction’, in Brian Griffin and Ellen McWilliams (eds), Irish Studies in Britain: New Perspectives on History and Literature (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010), pp 2-6 ‘Irish Cycling Clubs, 1869-1901’ in Jennifer Kelly and R.V. Comerford (eds), Associational Culture in Ireland and Abroad (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2010), pp 105-127 ‘Introduction’, in Brian Griffin (ed), New Voices in Irish Studies: Essays on History and Literature (Bath: Bath Spa University Press, 2009), pp 9-14 ‘Prevention and Detection of Crime in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’, in Norma M. Dawson (ed), Reflections on Law and History (Dublin: Four Courts Press/irish Legal History Society, 2006), pp 99-125 ‘The Revival at Local Level: Katherine Frances Purdon’s Portrayal of Rural Ireland’ in Betsey Taylor FitzSimon and James H. Murphy (eds), The Irish Revival Reappraised (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004), pp 175-186 ‘Luby, Thomas Clarke’, in H.G.C. Matthew and Brian Harrison (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004), pp 659-660 Entries on the Irish army, the Royal Irish Constabulary and policing in Ireland in Lelia Ruckenstein and James A. O’Malley (eds), Everything Irish: The History, Literature, Art, Music, People, and Places of Ireland from A-Z (New York: Ballantine Books, 2003) Entries on Dublin Metropolitan Police, Royal Irish Constabulary, James Stephens, Thomas Clarke Luby and Irish involvement in the Crimean War in Brian Lalor (ed), The Encyclopaedia of Ireland (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2003) ‘Irish Identity and the Crimean War’, in Bertrand Taithe and Tim Thornton (eds), War: Identities in Conflict 1300-2000 (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1998), pp 113-124 ‘”Such Varmint”: The Dublin Police and the Public, 1838-1913’, in Sarah Briggs, Paul Hyland and Neil Sammells (eds), Reviewing Ireland: Essays and Interviews from “Irish Studies Review” (Bath: Sulis Press, 1998), pp 57-65 ‘The Irish Police: Love, Sex and Marriage in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries’, in Margaret Kelleher and James H. Murphy (eds), Gender in Nineteenth Century Ireland: Public and Private Spheres (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1997), pp 168-78 ‘Religion and Opportunity in the Irish Police Forces, 1836-1914′, in R.V. Comerford et al (eds), Religion, Conflict and Coexistence in Ireland: Essays presented to Monsignor Patrick J. Corish (Dublin, 1990), pp 219-34 ‘Gaelic Culture’, in Sally Mitchell (ed), Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia (New York, 1988), pp 317-18 |
| Peer Reviewed Journals | ‘An Occupational Hazard? Drink and the Police in Victorian and Edwardian Ireland, 1836-1914’, Saothar, vol. 49 (2024), pp 5-18 ‘The Aztecs in Ulysses‘, James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 61, numbers 1-2 (Autumn 2023-Winter 2024), pp 121-127 ‘Diverting Difference: Freak Shows in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’, in New Hibernia Review, vol. 27, no. 1 (Spring 2023), pp 95-138 ‘Jack B. Yeats’s Punch Cartoons during the Great War’, Éire-Ireland, vol. 57, numbers 3 and 4 (Autumn/Winter 2022), pp 254-282 ‘Cycle Camping in Victorian and Edwardian Ireland’, Irish Studies Review, vol. 27, no. 3 (August 2019), pp 377-401 (with John Strachan),‘Introduction: Sport in Ireland from the 1880s to the 1920s’, Irish Studies Review, vol. 27, no. 3 (August 2019), pp 299-308 (co-editor with John Strachan of this special issue of Irish Studies Review, on the topic of ‘Sport in Ireland from the 1880s to the 1920s’ ‘”The More Sport the Merrier, Say We”: Sport in Ireland during the Great Famine’, Irish Economic and Social History, vol. 45, issue 1 (2018), pp 90-114 ‘The Tourist Gaze: Cycling Tourists’ Impressions of Victorian and Edwardian Ireland’, Irish Studies Review, vol. 25, no. 3 (August 2017), pp 283-315 ‘All Colours of the Rainbow, including Black and Gold: Making and Selling Bicycles in Ireland in the 1880s and 1890s’, Irish Historical Studies, vol. xxxviii, no. 152 (November 2013), pp. 620-642 ‘Anti-Catholicism in Bath from 1820 to 1870’, Recusant History, vol. 31, no. 4 (October 2013), pp. 593-611 ‘Sporting Policemen: Sports and the Police in Victorian and Edwardian Ireland’, Éire-Ireland, vol. 48, numbers 1&2 (Spring/Summer 2013), pp. 54-78 ‘The Romance of the Wheel: Cycling, Fiction and Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’, Sport in History, vol. 29, no. 2 (June 2009), pp. 277-295 ‘Cycling and Gender in Victorian Ireland’, Éire-Ireland, vol. xli, numbers 1 and 2 (Spring/ Summer 2006), pp 213-241 ‘”Scallions, Pikes and Bog Oak Ornaments”: The Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Chicago Fenian Fair, 1864’, Studia Hibernica, no.29 (1995-97), pp 85-97 ‘”Such Varmint”: The Dublin Police and the Public, 1838-1913’, Irish Studies Review, no.13 (Winter 1995), pp 21-25 ‘Social Aspects of Fenianism in Leinster and Connacht, 1858-1870’, Éire-Ireland, vol.xxi, no.1 (spring 1986), pp 16-39 |
| Other Journals | ‘Training Recruits at the Royal Irish Constabulary’s Depot at the Phoenix Park in Dublin’, Journal of the Police History Society, vol. 38 (2024), pp 93-100 ‘”Spiky-helmeted Perishers on Every Railway Station Platform”: Policing at Railway Stations in Victorian and Edwardian Ireland’, Irish Railway Record Society Journal, vol. 31, no. 214 (June 2024), pp 78-83 ‘”This Modern Tell”: John Townsend Trench (1834-1909), Kerry’s Controversial Cycling Pioneer’, Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society, series 2, vol. 23 (2023), pp 121-141 ‘An Explosive Entertainment: The Downhill Tunnel Blast’, The Bann Disc: The Journal of Coleraine Historical Society, vol. 29 (2023), pp 15-21 ‘Larry O’Hooligan and the Second Anglo-Boer War’, The Irish Sword, vol. xxxiv, no. 136 (Winter 2023), pp 190-200 ‘”Bicycling Has Become a Kind of Tyranny”: Michael Davitt and Cycling in Mayo in the 1890s’, Cathair na Mart (forthcoming) ‘The Bicycle and the Irish Revolution, 1913-1921’, The Irish Sword, vol. xxxiii, no. 134 (Winter 2022), pp 381-467 ‘Murder at the Broadstone Terminus’, History Ireland, vol. 30, no. 5 (September-October 2022), pp 28-31 ‘Selling Bicycles in Meath in the Late Victorian and Edwardian Era’, Ríocht na Midhe, vol. xxxiii (2022), pp 156-197 ‘”Wounded Men are Calling Me to Come and Ease their Pain”: Percy French’s Great War’, The Irish Sword, vol. xxxiii, no. 132 (Winter 2021), pp 181-199 ‘The Pennyfarthing and The Prisoner’, The Boneshaker, vol. 23, no. 215 (Spring 2021), pp 32-36 ‘Cycling in Waterford in the Victorian and Edwardian Eras’, Decies: Journal of the Waterford Archaeological and Historical Society, vol. 75 (2019), pp 59-85 ‘William Millar Woodside (1860-1890): Coleraine’s Forgotten Cycling Champion”, The Bann Disc: The Journal of Coleraine Historical Society, vol. 24 (2018), pp 25-34 ‘Robert Cromie’s Writings in the Cycling Press in the 1880s’, Lecale Review, no. 16 (2018), pp 47-52 ‘Count Konstantin Norbert Stadnicki, Poland’s Irish Cycling Champion’, The Boneshaker, vol. 21, no. 205 (Winter 2017), pp 4-13 ‘Cecilia Betham (1843-1913): Ireland’s First Female International Sports Star’, History Ireland, vol. 24, no. 3 (May-June 2016), pp 30-33 ‘”As Happy as Seven Kings”: Cycling in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’, History Ireland, vol. 22, no.1 (January-February 2014), pp. 32-35 ‘The Bicycle and the British Army in Victorian Ireland’, The Irish Sword, vol. xxix, no. 116 (Winter 2013), pp. 163-178 ‘The Fenians and Irish History’, New Perspective on Modern History, vol. 17, no. 1 (September 2011), pp. 1-5 ‘The Fenians in Ulster, 1858-1867’, The Irish Sword, vol. xxv, no. 101 (Summer 2007), pp 281-310 ‘A Forgotten Meath Author: Katherine Frances Purdon’, Ríocht na Midhe, vol. xvi (2005), pp 142-169 ‘The Early History of Cycling in Meath and Drogheda’, Ríocht na Midhe, vol. xv (2004), pp 123-151 ‘An Irishman’s Proposal for Aerial Bombing during the Crimean War’, The Irish Sword, vol. xxii, no.90 (Winter 2001), pp 427-431 ‘Ireland and the Crimean War’, The Irish Sword, vol. xxii, no.89 (Summer 2001), pp 281-312 ‘”Some Intriguing Parson, Who Wishes to Attract Attention”: Reverend Richard Ryan’, Ríocht na Midhe, vol. xi (2000), pp 106-23 ‘A Force Divided: Policing Ireland, 1900-1960’, History Today, vol. 49, no.10 (October 1999), pp 25-31 ‘An Agrarian Murder and Evictions in Rathcore’, Ríocht na Midhe, vol. ix, no.1 (1994-95), pp 88-103 ”Mad Dogs and Irishmen”: Dogs and Rabies in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries’, Ulster Folklife (1994), pp 1-15 |
| Electronic Publications | The Bicycle and the Irish Revolution, https://maynoothhistory.wordpress.com/2023/01/05/the-bicycle-and-the-irish-revolution/ Julie Kavanagh, The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge, and the Phoenix Park Murders that Stunned Victorian England (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2021), in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books (Rutgers University online review website, March 2022) Paul Rouse, Sport in Ireland: A History (Oxford, 2015), in Reviews in History, on-line journal of the Institute of Historical Research (May 2016) Whizzing in All Directions: A History of Cycling in Ireland, https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history/social-economic-history/whizzing-all-directions-history-cycling-ireland Dermot P.J. Walsh, Bloody Sunday and the Rule of Law in Northern Ireland (Basingstoke, 2000), in Reviews in History, on-line journal of the Institute of Historical Research, (November 2000)
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| Reviews | Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick, Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women (Dublin: Sandycove, 2023), in Irish Economic and Social History (forthcoming 2024) James Quinn, No Foreign Game: Association Football and the Making of Irish Identities (Newbridge: Merrion Press, 2023), in Irish Studies Review, vol. 32, no. 1 (February 2024), pp 156-157 Terence Dooley, Burning the Big House: The Story of the Irish Country House in a Time of War and Revolution (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022), in Irish Economic and Social History, vol. 50, issue 1 (2023), pp 137-138 Conor Curran, Soccer and Society in Dublin: A History of Association Football in Ireland’s Capital (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2023), in Irish Studies Review, vol. 31, no. 3 (August 2023), pp 451-453 Conor Curran, Physical Education in Irish Schools, 1900-2000: A History (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022), in Irish Studies Review, vol. 30, no. 3 (August 2022), pp 357-358 Julie Kavanagh, The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge, and the Phoenix Park Murders that Stunned Victorian England (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2021), in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books (Rutgers University online review website, March 2022) Jim Herlihy, The Black and Tans: A Complete Alphabetical List, Short History and Genealogical Guide (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2021), in Irish Studies Review, vol. 30, no. 1 (February 2022), pp 108-109 Richard J. Butler, Building the Irish Courthouse and Prison: A Political History, 1750-1850 (Cork: Cork University Press, 2019), in Irish Economic and Social History, vol. 48, issue 1 (2021), pp 151-153 Oliver Whelan, Landholding in the New English Settlement of Hacketstown, Co. Carlow, 1635-1875 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2019); Kerron Ó Luain, Rathcoole and the United Irish rebellions, 1798-1803 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2019); Mary Breen, Waterford Port and Harbour, 1815-42 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2019); Suzanne Leeson, The Kirwan Murder Case, 1852: A Glimpse of the Protestant Middle Class in the Mid-nineteenth Century (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2019); Fergus O’Ferrall, John Ferrall: Master of Sligo Workhouse, 1852-66 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2019), in Irish Economic and Social History, vol. 48, issue 1 (2021), pp 173-175 Conor Heffernan, The History of Physical Culture in Ireland (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), in Irish Studies Review, vol. 29, no. 3 (August 2021), pp 387-389 Kyle Hughes and Donald M. MacRaild (eds), Crime, Violence, and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century (Liverpool, 2017), in Irish Studies Review, vol. 27, no. 4 (November 2019), pp 583-585 Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Joseph Pennell, Cycling: A Canterbury Pilgrimage/An Italian Pilgrimage (ed. David Buchanan) (Edmonton, 2015), in Sport in History, vol. 38, no. 2 (June 2018), pp 246-248 Mark Radford, The Policing of Belfast 1870-1914 (London, 2015), in Irish Studies Review, vol. 24, no. 4 (November 2016), pp 473-474 Gillian O’Brien, Blood Runs Green: The Murder that Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago (Chicago, 2015), in Irish Literary Supplement (Autumn 2016), pp 18-19 Paul Rouse, Sport in Ireland: A History (Oxford, 2015), in Reviews in History, on-line journal of the Institute of Historical Research (May 2016) David Toms, Soccer in Munster: A Social History 1877-1937 (Cork, 2015), in Irish Studies Review, vol. 24, no. 1 (February 2016), pp 105-106 James Kelly, Sport in Ireland, 1600-1840 (Dublin and Portland, OR., 2014), in Irish Studies Review, vol. 23, no. 3 (August 2015), pp 364-365 Michael Carragher, San Fairy Ann? Motorcycles and British Victory 1914-1918 (Brighton, 2013), in The Irish Sword, vol. xxx, no. 119 (Summer 2015), pp 115-116 Elaine Farrell, ‘A Most Diabolical Deed’: Infanticide and Irish Society, 1850-1900 (Manchester and New York, 2013), in Irish Studies Review, vol. 22, no. 4 (November 2014), pp 529-530 David P. Nally, Human Encumbrances: Political Violence and the Great Irish Famine (Notre Dame, 2011), in Irish Studies Review, vol. 21, no. 2 (May 2013), pp 228-229 Máirtín Seán Ó Catháin, Irish Republicanism in Scotland 1858-1916: Fenians in Exile (Dublin and Portland, Or., 2007), in The Irish Sword, vol. xxvi, no. 106 (Winter 2009), pp 458-459 Tom Hunt, Sport and Society in Victorian Ireland: The Case of Westmeath (Cork, 2007), in Irish Studies Review, vol. 17, no. 4 (November 2009), pp 525-526 Paul Rosen, Peter Cox and David Horton (eds), Cycling and Society (Aldershot, 2007), in Contemporary British History, vol. 22, no. 3 (September 2008), pp 429-431 Elizabeth Malcolm, The Irish Policeman 1822-1922: A Life (Dublin, 2005), and Joost Augusteijn (ed.), The Memoirs of John M. Regan: A Catholic Officer in the RIC and RUC, 1908-48 (Dublin, 2007), in Irish Studies Review, vol. 16, no. 3 (August 2008), pp 345-347 Jim Herlihy, Royal Irish Constabulary Officers: A Biographical Dictionary and Genealogical Guide, 1816-1922 (Dublin, 2005), in Irish Studies Review, vol. 15, no. 1 (February 2007), pp 92-94 Alan Bairner (ed), Sport and the Irish: Histories, Identities, Issues (Dublin, 2005), in Irish Studies Review, vol. 14, no. 3 (August 2006), pp 390-392 Alan F. Parkinson, Belfast’s Unholy War: The Troubles of the 1920s (Dublin, 2004), in Irish Studies Review, vol. 14, no. 2 (May 2006), pp 281-282 Stephen Randolph Gibbons, Captain Rock, Night Errant: The Threatening Letters of Pre-Famine Ireland, 1801-1845 (Dublin, 2004), in Irish Studies Review, vol.13, no. 2 (May 2005), pp 242-244 Thomas Fennell (ed. Mary Fennell), The Royal Irish Constabulary: A History and Personal Memoir (Dublin, 2003) in Irish Economic and Social History, vol. xxxi (2004), pp 160-161 Joost Augusteijn (ed), The Irish Revolution, 1913-1923 (Basingstoke, 2002) in Irish Studies Review, vol.11, no.3 (December 2003), pp 353-354 Catherine Hirst, Religion, Politics and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: The Pound and Sandy Row (Dublin, 2002) in Irish Studies Review, vol.11, no. 2 (August 2003), pp 209-210 Joost Augusteijn and Mary Ann Lyons (eds), Irish History: A Research Yearbook. 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