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Academic Staff:

Dr Gearóid Barry, B.A. (Moderatorship in History & Political Science), Ph.D. (University of Dublin)
Room 401, ext. 3342; personal webpage under construction;  e-mail: gearoid.barrynuigalway.ie
Research interests:
Research interests include Modern and contemporary France, cultural and political history of the First World War in Europe, European pacifism between the World Wars, history of religion in modern and contemporary Europe (including popular religiosity), French Catholicism since that Revolution, the origins of Christian Democracy in Europe, Franco-Irish links in the twentieth-century.

Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley, B.A., Ph.D. (NUI)       
Room 408, ext.4294, personal webpage e-mail: sarahanne.buckleynuigalway.ie  
Research interests:
Research interests: Nineteenth and twentieth-century Irish and British social, political, and social policy history; women and gender; institutional histories; welfare history and the history of childhood and the family in Ireland.

Dr Caitríona Clear, M.A., Ph.D. (NUI) 
On Sabbatical January - August 2013  
Room 414, ext. 3099, personal webpage, e-mail: caitriona.clearnuigalway.ie  
Research interests:
History of Women; Social history of Ireland and Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Dr John Cunningham 
Head of 2nd Year 
Room 313, ext.5642, personal webpage, e-mail: john.cunninghamnuigalway.ie
Research Interests: 
Modern Ireland; Labour History; Local History; Urban History; Dynamics of Social Protest.

Dr Enrico Dal Lago, Laurea in Lettere (Roma), M.A. (Kansas), M.A., Ph.D. (Lond.)
Head of Final Year 
Room 403, ext. 3546, personal webpage, email: enrico.dallagonuigalway.ie  
Research interests:
U.S. Social and Political history, especially the 19th century; American Slavery in comparative perspective; Native North Americans, especially the Plains' Tribes.

Professor Steven Ellis, B.A., M.A. (Manc.), Ph.D.(Belf.), D.Litt.(NUI), FRHistS 
Head of School of Humanities 
Room 406, ext. 2272, personal webpage, e-mail: steven.ellisnuigalway.ie
Research interests:
British and Irish history, 15th to 17th c.; historiography; Early Modern Europe.

Dr Tomás Finn
Rm 411, Ext. 2552, personal webpage, e-mail: tomas.finnnuigalway.ie
Research interests:
Modern Ireland, the role of intellectuals, Church-state relations, the Irish Diaspora and Northern Ireland.

Dr Alison Forrestal, M.A. (NUI), Ph.D. (Manchester), FRHistS 
Head of B.A. (Single Honours) History
Room 412, ext. 5629, personal webpage (under construction), email:  alison.forrestalnuigalway.ie
Research interests:
Early modern Europe, particularly seventeenth-century France;  history of religion, particularly early modern Catholic culture and society;  seventeenth-century Ireland.

Dr Mary Harris, B.A., M.A., H.Dip.Ed. (NUI), Ph.D. (Cantab.) 
Director, MA History 
Room 409, ext. 3290, personal webpage, e-mail: mary.harrisnuigalway.ie
Research interests:
Northern Ireland; politics and culture (especially the Irish language) in early twentieth-century Ireland; religion in twentieth-century Ireland.

Dr Róisín Healy, M.A., (NUI), M.A.G.E.S., Ph.D. (Georgetown) 
Head of Discipline, Head of First Year 
Room 415, ext. 2551, personal webpage, e-mail: roisin.healynuigalway.ie  
Research interests:
Modern German history; History of religion; 19th- and 20th-c. European Social History.

Dr Pádraig Lenihan
Room 312, ext. 5680, personal webpage, e-mail: padraig.lenihannuigalway.ie
Research interests:
Seventeenth-century Irish history and warfare in Baroque Europe.

Dr Kimberly LoPrete, B.A. (Duke), M.A. (Notre Dame), Ph.D.(Chicago)
Director, MA Medieval Studies 
Room 407, ext. 3547, personal webpage, e-mail: kim.lopretenuigalway.ie  
Research interests: 
Teaching and Research interests: social, political and cultural history of medieval Europe, in particular the 11th-12th centuries and France; women in medieval society, notably aristocratic women; gender and lordship; the first crusade and the history of crusdaing; Europeans' encounters with non-Europeans and travels in Asia; medieval historical writing and uses of the past in the middle ages; manuscript studies, including palaeography, codicology and the transmission of texts. 

Dr Laurence Marley
Room 314, ext. 3791, personal webpage, e-mail: laurence.marleynuigalway.ie

Dr Niall Ó Ciosáin, B.A. (Dub.), Ph.D. (Eur.Univ.Inst.)    
Room 410, ext. 3019, personal webpage, e-mail:  niall.ociosainnuigalway.ie  
Research interests:
The social and cultural history of 18th and 19th-century Ireland and Europe, particularly literacy and education, the history of the book in Ireland, popular printing and reading, language shift and language change.

Professor Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, B.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.(NUI), MRIA
Director of Research Studies 
Room 402, ext. 2697, personal webpage, e-mail: daibhi.ocroininnuigalway.ie  
Research interests:
Ireland, Britain and Europe during the Early Middle Ages; computistics; medieval latin palaeography; Irish traditional music and song.

Dr. Kevin O' Sullivan, B.A., Ph.D. (Dub.)
Room 413, ext. 3625, personal webpage:  e-mail: kevin.k.osullivannuigalway.ie
Research interests:
The history of decolonisation; social and political legacies of imperialism; humanitarianism; non-governmental organisations; globalisation; international relations; modern Irish history.

Administrative Staff:

Ms Helena Condon
Administrative Assistant, full-time
Room 405, ext 2537, e-mail: helena.condonnuigalway.ie

Ms Maura Walsh
Administrative Assistant, part-time
Room 404, ext. 3675, email: maura.ocroininnuigalway.ie

Retired Staff:

Professor Nicholas Canny, M.A., H.Dip.Ed.(NUI Galway), Ph.D. (Penn.) MRIA, M.Acad.Eur., FRHistS., FBA
Moore Institute, ext. 3907 personal webpage, e-mail:  nicholas.cannynuigalway.ie
Research interests:
17th century Irish and British history; Colonial American history; Early Modern history.  

Professor Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, M.A. (NUI Galway), FRHistS 
Room 402, ext. 2554, personal webpage, e-mail: gearoid.otuathaighnuigalway.ie  
Research interests:
19th-and 20th-c. Irish and British history; 20th-c. and contemporary European history; modern imperialism; the history of ideas.

Adjunct Staff: 

Dr Aileen Fyfe, M.A., Ph.D. (Cantab.)       
Dr Fyfe has taken up a post in St Andrews, Scotland.
Personal Webpage, St Andrews link: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/staff/aileenfyfe.html   
Research interests:
British cultural history in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with particular emphases on science and technology, religion, the book trade and children's literature.

Professor Ged Martin
Via History Dept, NUI Galway; Personal Webpage; email: shanacoolegmail.com
Research Interests: Australian, British, British Imperial, Canadian, Irish and New Zealand history from the late 18th to the 20th centuries.  Current interest include the career of Sir John A. Macdonald (1815-91), first prime minister of Canada, British-Canadian relations and the intellectual origins of Canadian Confederation (1867).

Dr Simon Potter, B.A., M.St.(Mod. Hist.) D.Phil. (Oxon.)   
As of September 2011, Dr Potter has moved to the University of Bristol 
Research interests:
19th and 20th century Imperial and Commonwealth history; history of communications and the press; history and theory of nationalism. 

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