Book chapters
‘Bewitching the soul: African perspectives on colonial education' in Education and Empire, co-edited by Fiona Bateman and Muireann O Cinnéide (forthcoming).
‘Ireland and Biafra: Hunger, History, Politics and Public Opinion' in Chima J. Korieh (ed.) Biafra War, History, and the Politics of Memory (forthcoming).
‘The "battlefield of the schoolroom": Irish children and Ireland's spiritual empire' in David Dickson et al (ed) Irish classrooms and British empire: Imperial contexts in the origins of modern education, Four Courts Press (forthcoming June 2012).
‘Introduction' in Studies in Settler Colonialism: Politics, Identity and Culture, co-edited with Lionel Pilkington (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) (co-author with Lionel Pilkington).
‘Ireland's Spiritual Empire: The African Mission Field in the Twentieth Century', in Hilary Carey (ed.) Empires of Religion (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
‘An Irish Missionary in India: Thomas Gavan Duffy and The Catechist of Kil-Arni', in Ireland and India: Colonies, Culture and Empire, edited by Tadhg Foley and Maureen O'Connor (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2006), pp 117-128.
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
‘Ireland and the Nigeria Biafra War (1967-1970): Local connections to a distant conflict', New Hibernia Review (forthcoming Winter 2011).
‘Defining the Heathen Irish and the Pagan African: Two similar discourses a century apart', Social Sciences and Missions, Vol. 21, no. 1, 2008, pp 73-96.
Edited Collections
Education and Empire, co-edited by Fiona Bateman and Muireann O Cinnéide (forthcoming).
Studies in Settler Colonialism: Politics, Identity and Culture, co-edited with Lionel Pilkington, Palgrave Macmillan (June 2011).

Irish cultural history and writing in the twentieth century, especially issues of identity, race, and modernisation; also the Irish missionary movement and its texts, Ireland and Biafra (late 1960s)