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 HistoryMorality Working-Class 19th century20th century Cinema History Archival Studies Oral History |
Nickname | Dr Martin Walsh FRHistS |
Membership Type | Professional Historian |
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
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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 |
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)’ |
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