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Dr Martin Walsh FRHistS
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About me

Email

tmartinwalsh@gmail.com

Twitter link

@tmartinwalsh

Bio

Social & Gender Historian| Ireland & England| 19th & 20th century| Morality and the urban environment| Web Officer WHAI| Fellow Royal Historical Society| Committee Member of the Irish Association of Professional Historians| Member of the Oral History Network of Ireland| Project Officer Oral History Project UL

Keywords

{Social History} {Women’s History} {England} {Ireland} {Gendered History}{Morality} {Working-Class} {19th century}{20th century} {Cinema History} {Archival Studies} {Oral History}

Member Details

Nickname

Dr Martin Walsh FRHistS

Membership Type

Professional Historian

Experience

Employment

University of  Limerick

Lecturer

Teaching Assistant

February 2024 – present

University of Limerick

Lecturer

Part-time

Sep 2023 – Present

University of Limerick

Project Officer (UL Oral History Project)

Part-time

Feb 2021 – Present

The work entails interviewing those who laid the foundations for the University of Limerick in 1972. It also involves interviewing the Alumni and staff of the National College for Physical Education, Thomond College of Education, the National Institute for Higher Education and the University of Limerick. The Oral History Project forms an integral part of the UL50 celebrations.

https://digitallibrary.ul.ie/university-limerick-oral-history-project-ulohp

University of Limerick

Lecturer

Part-time

Feb 2023 – May 2023

University of Limerick

Curator

Apr 2022 – Sep 2022

Curated the exhibition ’50 years of ‘Pioneering Women’ at the University of Limerick: Past and Present’ as part of UL50.

University of Limerick

Lecturer

Part-time

Feb 2022 – May 2022

Limerick Diocesan Archives (Volunteer)

Volunteer Archivist

Mar 2019 – Mar 2022 ·

Catalogued the papers of Bishop David Keane. Keane was the Bishop of Limerick from 1924 until his death in 1945.Catalogued the papers of Bishop David Keane. Keane was the Bishop of Limerick from 1924 until his death in 1945.

University of Limerick

Part-time

Jan 2020 – May 2020

University of Limerick

Teaching Assistant

Sep 2019 – Jan 2020 ·

Responsible for teaching the MA in Public History & Cultural Heritage (online).

Co-taught and was the Module Leader for an Undergraduate Module.

Supervised five FYP Students to completion of their projects. Responsible for teaching the MA in Public History & Cultural Heritage (online). Co-taught and was the Module Leader for an Undergraduate Module. Supervised five FYP Students to completion of their projects

Teaching

I have taught a number of undergraduate classes as either, Guest Lecturer, Joint

Module Leader or Module Leader. Class sizes have ranged from 40 to over 100.

Undergraduate Modules taught

The Early Modern City, c. 14501789

Nasty, Shortish and Brutish: Early Modern Europe, 1450 – 1700

New Heaven, New Earth: Power and Belief in the European Reformation 1517 – 1618

From Kingdom to Republic: Irish History, 1660 – 1960

Empire, Nations & Union: Europe 1848 – 1992

Europe: Enlightenment & Revolution, 1688 – 1815

Ireland: Revolution & Independence, 1898 – 1968

Sources for History

Postgraduate Teaching

MA Public History Heritage and Culture

-Graduate Seminar in Irish Cultural History

-Introduction to Public History & Practice

-Digital Humanities

Supervision

 

Supervision of fourth-year undergraduate Final Year Projects

 

Outreach activities

2024:   Currently working with Shannon Development Pensioners’ Association to develop an oral history project as part of a wider scheme that seeks to document the economic role Shannon Development had in the Midwest region

2023:   Established an Oral History Project for Shannon Rugby and Football Club, Limerick as part of a scheme to preserve its heritage

2022:   Curated an exhibition ‘50 years of pioneering women at the University of Limerick: Past and present’ as

part of UL50

2022:   Committee organiser for the Women’s History Association of Ireland annual conference

2019:   Over the course of two years, I volunteered at Limerick Diocesan Archives to catalogue the papers of the Bishop of Limerick David Keane (1924 – 1945)

Committees & Associations

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Web Officer  Women’s History Association of Ireland

Committee Member Irish Association of Professional Historians

Member of the Oral History Network of Ireland

Other activities

Conference papers

April 27 2024: ‘All those who join the Society must have borne a virtuous character; The difficulties for the Irish Girls’ Friendly Society in navigating an increasingly modern world in the early years of the Irish Free State’ (WHAI Annual Conference).

April 26 2024: Participated in the Women’s Grassroots Activism Workshop, Dublin

Dec: ‘2023: ‘50 years of Pioneering Women at the University of Limerick: Past and Present.’ Using oral history testimonies to make visible those that have been forgotten in the official record (Royal Irish Academy Her-ald: HER Archives, literature, archives, document, Mná 100)

2023: Mary Roughan, President of Ennis Cumann na mBan (1880-1949): A forgotten nationalist (Clare History Week, 16 October)

2023: ‘Giving voice to those that made a University: The University of Limerick Oral History Project’ (34th Irish Conference of Historians & 4th Annual Centre for Public History Conference, 16 September)

2023: ‘Keeping vigilance over London’s Port’s and Railway Stations: An analysis of the endeavors of stations workers employed by preventive societies to protect women migrants travelling through or settling London, 1885-1953 (Women’s History Network Annual Conference, 1 September)

2023: ‘Mary Roughan President of Ennis Cumann na Mban (1880-1949): A forgotten nationalist’ (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, 13 March)

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)

2019: ‘Richard Stanislaus Devane S.J. Social Commentator and Advocate, 1876-1951’ (MIC Limerick History Research Seminar24 September)

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

2023: Shannon Rugby Football Club Oral History project (Shannon RFC,                      Heritage week talk)

2019: ‘Immoral literature and the origins of the Censorship of Publications Act,             1929’, The People ’s Museum

2017: ‘The forgotten roller-skating rink Limerick (1876-1916)’, Limerick

Publications

Books

University of Limerick an Oral History, 1972 – 2022 (Limerick, 2023)

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

2021: Limerick Diocesan Archives, ‘From the Archives – Bishop David Keane (1871 – 1945)

(https://www.limerickdiocese.org/news/from-the-archives-bishop-david-keane-1871-1945/)

2020: University of Southampton Special Collections user perspective: ‘Dr Martin Walsh on the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls, Women and Children (2020)’

(https://specialcollectionsuniversityofsouthampton.wordpress.com/2020/07/01/user-perspectives-dr-martin-walsh-on-the-jewish-association-for-the-protection-of-girls-women-and-children/)

Reviews
  • Women’s History Association of Ireland: Sophie Cooper, Forging Identities in the Irish World: Melbourne and Chicago, c. 1830-1922 ·(Edinburgh, 2022)
  • Irish Studies Review: Elaine O’ Callinan, Electioneering and Propaganda in Ireland, 1917 – 1921(Votes, Violence and Victory) (Dublin, 2020)
  • Women’s History Association of Ireland: Fionnuala Walsh, Irish Women and the Great War (Cambridge, 2020)
  • Irish Studies Review: Joe Breen and Mark O’ Brien (eds), The Sunday Papers: A History of Ireland’s Weekly Press (Dublin, 2018)
  • Women’s History Association of Ireland: Paul Huddie, The Crimean War and Irish Society (Liverpool, 2017)
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