Pádraig Lenihan has been a lecturer in history at the National University of Ireland Galway since 2010. Before then he was a lecturer in history at the University of Limerick since 1995. University teaching and research represents his second career: in his first he served as an army officer for fourteen years and also qualified as a barrister-at-law.

Chapters
‘Confederate Catholics and Scottish Covenanters, 1644-46’ in W. P. Kelly and J. R. Young (eds.) Scotland and the Ulster Plantations: Explorations in the Scottish Settlement of Ulster in Stuart Ireland (Dublin, 2010) pp.108-121.

‘Ballaí Luimnigh’: The Sieges of Limerick’ in L. Irwin, G. Ó Tuathaigh and M. Potter (eds.) Limerick: History and Society (Geography Publications, 2010) pp.129-158.

Articles
‘Namur Citadel, 1695: a case study in Allied siege tactics’ War in History, vol. 18,No. 3, 2011.

Entries of 1,000 words on the Battle of the Boyne (1690) the Battle of Aughrim (1691) and the Sieges of Namur (1692 and 1695) in Gordon Martel (ed.) Encyclopedia of War. (Oxford, 2011)

European military history from the Thirty Years War to the War of the Spanish Succession, with special emphasis on warfare in Ireland.
Currently I am writing a biography of Richard Talbot earl of Tyrconnell (d.1691) and am actively seeking a publisher.
Working in collaboration with Mark Stansbury of NUIG, I have almost completed a co-edited and annotated translation of a portion of an epic poem in Latin dealing with the Jacobite regime 1685-1691.
I am co-editing the entire poem (over 5,000 lines) with Prof. Keith Sidwell, Dept., of Greek and Latin Studies University of Calgary.
Invited speaker at a one-day colloquium: ‘A British Military Revolution, 1500-1700’ ? Jesus College Oxford, 2 May 2011