Robert graduated from the University of Limerick with a PhD in Modern Irish American History in 2020. The main focus of his research centres on the impact of Irish America on twentieth-century Irish history. He has amassed several publications including a peer-reviewed journal article in Irish Studies in International Affairs titled “A Tremendous Motivating Factor”: Irish Northern Aid and the Belfast March Tour‘ in December 2021 and several articles for RTÉ Brainstorm. His monograph, Noraid and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1970-1994 was published in September 2022 with Four Courts Press.
Areas of expertise
Modern Irish History, Irish Diaspora, Irish America
Collins, R. (2021), “A Tremendous motivating factor”: Irish Northern Aid and the Belfast March Tour’ in Irish Studies in International Affairs, Vol. 32 (no.1) (2021), pp 279-98: https://doi.org/10.1353/isia.2021.0049
Other Journals
Collins, R. (2015) ‘Limerick Volunteers and the 1916 Rising: a contested history’ in History Studies, 16, 1-7.
Collins, Robert, review of From whence I came: the Kennedy legacy, Ireland and America, edited by Brian Murphy and Donnacha Ó Beacháin, in Estudios Irlandeses, (no.17) (March 2022), pp 208-10: https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2022-10767
