Here is a selection of some talks that I gave in recent times. I can be contacted directly via the contact menu on this site.
Title: “Trade and Diplomacy in the Revolutionary Era 1916-1924”, Decade of Centenaries Lecture, Kildare Street, 25 Nov. 2021.
Theme: The struggle for recognition of Irish independence occurred against a backdrop of international economic change.
Title: “Finance, geopolitics and the avoidance of war: an evolving framework for Irish diplomacy?”, International Affairs Conference, Royal Irish Academy, 23 May 2019
Theme: A historical overview of Ireland’s role in international relations with a particular focus on the financial and European dimensions.
Title: ‘The challenge of interpreting the Fenians from police records: some interesting case studies’, National Archives of Ireland seminar on Fenian records, 25 Nov. 2017
Theme: What are the pros and cons of using police records as historical evidence in the absence of official Fenian documentation?
Title: ‘Arthur Griffith: an architect of Irish independence?’, Modern Irish History Seminar, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 15 Nov. 2017
Theme: P.S. O’Hegarty claimed in 1924 that the Sinn Féin policy of Arthur Griffith had proved victorious, but was this really true?
Title: ‘The World Conference of the Irish Race (1922): a missed opportunity in Irish diplomacy?’, Global Irish Diaspora Congress, University College Dublin, 16 Aug. 2017
Theme: What part, if any, did the Irish diaspora play in the creation of an Irish department of foreign affairs?
Title: ‘Outmanoeuvring the Dáil: southern unionist political strategy 1919-1922’, Southern Irish Loyalism in Context Conference, Maynooth University, 21 July 2017
Theme: Ireland was being divided into north and south, but did southern unionists continue to provide essential leadership for unionists across Ireland?
Title: ‘Sinn Féin propaganda and American involvement in the war 1917-1918’, Winning the Western Approaches Conference, University College Cork, 6 July 2017
Theme: The rise of the Sinn Féin Party coincided exactly with the duration of American involvement in the First World War (April 1917-November 1918), but was this a mere coincidence?
Title: ‘Arthur Griffith: a life’, Dublin Festival of History, 1 Oct. 2016
Theme: Arthur Griffith was a lifelong Dubliner. Is this the key to understanding his political inspiration?
Title: ‘From Rossa to Pearse: the 1916 rising in the light of the history of the IRB’, RTE Reflecting the Rising, Dublin Institute of Technology, 28 Mar. 2016
Theme: There would have been no 1916 rising without the IRB, but how much can historians really know about this secret organisation and its history?
